IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

摘要

A patient information management system (12) for enhancing viewing of a patient's personal patient drugs record (180) is described. The system (12) comprises: communications means (50, 52, 54) arranged to receive patient drugs records (180) created at a pharmacy (14) connectable to the system (12) via a communications link (16, 20); and a database (22) of the received patient drugs records (180), each record providing personal information about the patient, which does not reveal patient identity, and being identifiable by a unique pharmacy-assigned identified (162). The communications means (50, 52, 54) is also arranged to receive support information (130) from a support organisation (36), the support information (130) comprising matching requirement data associated therewith for matching the support information (130) with a specific category of patients. The system further comprises a matching engine (72) arranged to target the support information (130) to appropriate patients by matching the requirement data with the personal patient information (188) such that any patient access tot he drugs record (180) enables provision of targeted support information to the patient.