METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING A NARCOTICS USE INDICATOR

摘要

A method, system, and computer program product for determining a controlled substance use indicator to enable a physician, or other prescriber, to quickly review a numerical score that reflects a patient's past drug use and is indicative of proper, or improper, future drug use. This score analyzes many aspects of a patient's past activities to determine multiple individual indicator values that may be selectively weighted to create a final controlled substance use indicator. Such individual indicator values may include a usage related indicator factoring in the patient's past drug use, particularly the type of controlled substances used; an instruction related indicator that may consider the patient's past use of prescribers, quantity of prescriptions, or the number of open prescriptions from different prescribers; a dispensing related indicator that examines a patient's use of pharmacies, in filling prescriptions; or even an auxiliary indicator that may reflect the patient's number of active prescriptions.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for determining the likelihood of proper prescription drug use by a patient, the method comprising:
obtaining a record from a prescription database, the record indicative of a plurality of prescriptions corresponding to the patient; generating, with one or more computer processors, a usage related indicator by comparing at least one of a prescription drug type corresponding to two or more of the plurality of prescriptions or a prescription drug quantity corresponding to the two or more of the plurality of prescriptions with a plurality of general population prescription drug use data; generating, with the one or more computer processors, an instruction related indicator by comparing a prescriber corresponding to at least one of the plurality of prescriptions to a plurality of general population prescription drug instruction data; and combining, with the one or more computer processors, the usage related indicator and the instruction related indicator to produce a prescription drug use indicator for display on a visual medium.