METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING ADVISORY INFORMATION FOR PHARMACY PATIENTS ALONG WITH NORMALLY TRANSMITTED DATA

摘要

A method and system for generating advisory messages to pharmacy patients includes appending patient-specific information to a data record containing normally transmitted information. The data record is transmitted between a third party computer and a pharmacy computer during a pharmacy transaction. The data record transmitted to the pharmacy computer is captured by an advisory computer as the data record is received by the pharmacy computer or after the data record is transmitted to the pharmacy computer, and the patie nt- specific information is extracted from the captured data record. The advisor y computer generates an advisory message based on the extracted patient-specif ic information, and it transmits the generated advisory message to a pharmacy printer. The advisory computer includes a memory containing a data structure for storing the patient-specific information, the normally transmitted information, and the generated advisory message. A computer program product includes a computer storage medium and a computer program code mechanism embedded in the computer storage medium for causing a computer to generate a n advisory message. The computer program code mechanism includes a first computer code device configured to append the patient-specific information, a second computer code device configured to capture the data record transmitte d to the pharmacy computer, a third computer code devise configured to extract the patient-specific information from the captured data record, a fourth computer code device configured to generate the advisory message based on th e extracted patient specific information, and a fifth computer code device configured to transmit the generated advisory message to the pharmacy printe r.