Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
Reexamination Certificate
2003-01-07
2009-02-10
Gilligan, C Luke (Department: 3626)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
C705S004000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07490047
ABSTRACT:
A system for constructing formularies is disclosed. The system includes a central computer system and at least one additional computer. The central computer system compiles a list of various pharmaceutical products and sorts them into different categories based on predetermined relational characteristics. The relational characteristics are based on therapeutic classifications of the pharmaceutical products, which in turn share these relational characteristics. Formularies are then created by selecting individual products and/or categories of products that the formularies would support. When prescription claims are received, coverage is either accepted or denied based on whether the products in die prescription claims are covered by the formulary.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4847764 (1989-07-01), Halvorson
patent: 5737539 (1998-04-01), Edelson et al.
patent: 5758095 (1998-05-01), Albaum et al.
patent: 5845255 (1998-12-01), Mayaud
patent: 5950630 (1999-09-01), Portwood et al.
patent: 6067524 (2000-05-01), Byerly et al.
patent: 6104398 (2000-08-01), Cox et al.
patent: 6240394 (2001-05-01), Uecker et al.
patent: 6282531 (2001-08-01), Haughton et al.
patent: 6314556 (2001-11-01), DeBusk et al.
patent: 6317719 (2001-11-01), Schrier et al.
patent: 6356873 (2002-03-01), Teagarden et al.
patent: 6542902 (2003-04-01), Dulong et al.
patent: 6694334 (2004-02-01), DuLong et al.
patent: 2001/0037216 (2001-11-01), Oscar et al.
patent: 2001/0049673 (2001-12-01), Dulong et al.
patent: 2002/0138303 (2002-09-01), Enos et al.
patent: 2002/0143579 (2002-10-01), Docherty et al.
patent: 2003/0172081 (2003-09-01), Dulong et al.
David J. Gross, Prescription drug formularies in managed care: concerns for the elderly population, Nov.-Dec. 1998, Clinical Therapeutics, vol. 20, Issue 6, pp. 1277-1291.
C. Michael Stein, MD et al., Implementation of multiple outpatient formularies: undesirable effects, Jan. 1997, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-7.
Kessler D, Rose JL, Temple RJ, et al. Therapeutic-class wars—Drug promotion in a competitive marketplace. NEJM. 1994; 331:1350-1353.
Isacson, Drugs up in smoke: a study of caseated drugs in Sweden, Apr. 1999, Pharmacy World & Science; ; 21, 2; Health & Medical Complete p. 96-99.
The Merck Manual, 1899, Merck & Co., p. 185.
The Merck Manual, 1992, Merck & Co., p. 2602.
Cushny, A text-book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 1934, Lea & Febiger, p. vii-x.
Barrett, An intranet-based formulary management system, May 1, 200, American Society of Health-System Pharma, 57(9):907-8.
S. Levine et al., “Kaiser Permanente's Prescription Drug Benefit,” Health Affairs 19, No. 2 (2000): 185-190.
Snow, Bonnie, EMBASE Update for the Pharmaceutical Searcher Database; Dec. 1991; 14, 6; ABI/INFORM Global□□p. 93-96.
Pahor, Drug data coding and analysis in epidemiologic studies, Aug. 1994, Eur J Epidemiol, 10(4):405-11.
Grabowski, Pharmacy benefit management, cost-effectiveness analysis and drug formulary decisions, Aug. 1997, Social Science & Medicine, The Impact of Cost-Effectiveness on Public and Private Policies in Health Care: An International Perspective, vol. 45, Issue 4, pp. 535-544.
Carruthers, A novel formulary: collaboration between health care professionals, seniors, private sector and government in Nova Scotia, Jul. 13, 1999, Canadian Medical Association, vol. 161, Issue 1, p. 58-61.
Goldberg, Managing the Pharmacy Benefit: The Formulary System, 1997, Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, vol. 3, p. 565-573.
Fijn, The quality of Dutch hospital drug formularies: Evaluation of technical features and organisational information, Jun. 1999, Pharmacy World and Science, vol. 21, No. 3, p. 120-126.
Sep. 23, 2003. PCT International Search Report for PCT/US03/01650.
Written Opinion for International Application No. PCT/US03/01650 mailed Nov. 3, 2004.
International Preliminary Examination Report, Application No. PCT/US03/01650 mailed Mar. 14, 2005.
Brown Kenneth J.
Daniel Roselin
Stettin Glen D.
Tobin William D.
Donner Irah H.
Gilligan C Luke
Medco Health Solutions Inc.
Nguyen Tran
Wilmer Cutler Pickerin Hale and Dorr LLP
LandOfFree
Apparatus and method for constructing formularies does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Apparatus and method for constructing formularies, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Apparatus and method for constructing formularies will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4124051