A prescription circulation method based on routing prescription allocation

By setting up an online consultation platform on the hospital's Internet and using the prescription router dispenser to automatically match and distribute it to nearby cooperative pharmacies, the problem that prescription information in the existing electronic prescription circulation system cannot fully meet the supply needs of out-of-hospital pharmacies is solved, achieving more convenient and efficient prescription circulation.

CN114171153BActive Publication Date: 2025-04-01LANGSONTE TECH CO LTD +1
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Application Number
CN202111366172.7
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Patents(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2021-11-18
Publication Date
2025-04-01
Estimated Expiration
2041-11-18

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Technical Problem

In the existing electronic prescription circulation system, the hospital's prescription information usually cannot fully meet the supply needs of out-of-hospital pharmacies, which makes it difficult for patients to purchase medicines. Doctors need to modify the prescriptions many times, delaying treatment time.

Method used

The prescription circulation method based on routing distribution is adopted. By setting up an online consultation platform on the hospital's Internet, after the doctor prescribes an electronic prescription, it uses the prescription router to automatically match and distribute it to nearby partner pharmacies to ensure that patients can easily obtain the required medicines.

Benefits of technology

This method greatly reduces the problem of insufficient supply of prescription drugs, improves the convenience and efficiency of electronic prescription circulation, and avoids the treatment time wasted by doctors and patients due to prescription modifications.

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Abstract

The present invention provides a prescription circulation method based on routing prescription distribution, which includes the patient consulting online through the Internet, the doctor issuing an electronic prescription, entering a prescription circulation platform, and the platform matching all nearby qualified pharmacies that meet the patient's prescription medication information, and screening the nearest pharmacy information through a prescription routing distributor. If there is no complete match nearby, several orders are disassembled and matched again. After the patient selects a pharmacy, he chooses to pick up the medicine by himself or the pharmacy delivers it, completes the payment, and the patient's mobile phone receives the medicine pickup number sent by the platform. The pharmacy adjusts and reviews the prescription, waits for delivery or the patient picks it up by himself, and the patient goes to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine or signs for the express delivery with the medicine pickup number. The present invention solves the problem of insufficient supply of online prescription drugs by offline pharmacies in traditional prescription circulation based on the Internet, avoids the problem of insufficient supply of prescription drugs by terminals, and can be widely used in the original prescription circulation platform.
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Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of Internet medicine industry, and in particular to a prescription circulation method based on routing distribution prescriptions. Background Art

[0002] Electronic prescription circulation refers to the electronic sharing of the hospital's prescription information, drug purchase, sales, inventory and circulation information of out-of-hospital terminals, medical insurance drug self-pay information or medical insurance drug unified settlement information, etc. on an information system platform. Patients can freely purchase drugs at out-of-hospital pharmacies with hospital prescriptions. Usually, the hospital's prescription information cannot be fully supplied to patients by a single out-of-hospital pharmacy, which makes it difficult for patients to buy drugs. They have to communicate with doctors repeatedly to modify prescriptions, which delays a lot of treatment time and is not good for the patient's condition. Summary of the invention

[0003] In order to solve the problem that the electronic prescriptions of the patients and the pharmacies are usually not convenient enough, resulting in multiple prescription modifications and delayed treatment, and to achieve the above purpose of facilitating doctors to prescribe by means of electronic prescription circulation, the present invention is implemented by the following technical solutions: A prescription circulation method based on routing distribution prescriptions, comprising the following steps:

[0004] S1. An online consultation platform is set up on the hospital's Internet. Patients can log in to the Internet on the user end and enter this platform for online consultation. The Internet system assigns patients to a professional doctor's platform based on their general condition type;

[0005] S2. After the doctor has a general understanding of the patient's condition and makes detailed inquiries, he or she will make a judgment based on the severity of the patient's condition and issue an electronic prescription. The patient can then enter the prescription circulation platform and receive the electronic prescription issued by the doctor.

[0006] S3. The Internet hospital signs a cooperation agreement with the terminal pharmacy and connects the system with the Internet prescription circulation platform. The prescription circulation platform distributes the hospital's prescriptions to the cooperating pharmacies through the prescription routing distributor;

[0007] S4. The electronic prescription platform will automatically match all nearby qualified pharmacies that meet the patient's prescription medication information based on the content of the prescription, and screen out the nearest pharmacy information through the prescription routing distributor to facilitate the patient to pick up the medicine;

[0008] S5. Based on the number of drugs on the patient's prescription, if there is no drug information near the patient's address that completely matches the drug information on the patient's prescription, the system will automatically split the prescription into several orders and then re-match the pharmacy;

[0009] S6. After the patient has selected a pharmacy and chosen the method of self-collection or pharmacy delivery, he / she confirms his / her contact information, completes the payment of the medicine, and then the patient's mobile phone will receive a medicine collection number sent by the platform;

[0010] S7. The pharmacy adjusts and reviews the prescription and waits for delivery or self-pickup by the patient. The patient goes to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine or signs for the courier with the medicine pickup number.

[0011] Further, the prescription routing distributor includes:

[0012] 1) Module for calculating the path between patients and pharmacies;

[0013] 2) Terminal pharmacy polling module;

[0014] 3) Prescription order selection module.

[0015] Furthermore, the module for calculating the path between the patient and the pharmacy: synchronizes the pharmacy dimension information with the longitude and latitude information of the patient's delivery address to calculate the pharmacies around the patient that can provide prescription drugs, ensuring that the patient can purchase prescription drugs at the best price.

[0016] Furthermore, the terminal pharmacy polling module: when one pharmacy cannot supply all the drugs in the prescription, the module polls the pharmacies near the patient from near to far to ensure that the drugs in the patient's prescription are supplied.

[0017] Furthermore, the prescription order selection module includes the following steps:

[0018] a. If one pharmacy can supply all the drugs on the prescription, the patient chooses the platform's recommended cooperative pharmacy as the supplier of prescription drugs and pays for the purchase;

[0019] b. If one pharmacy cannot supply all the drugs on the prescription, the platform will split the prescription drugs required by the patient into several orders based on polling of terminal partner pharmacies, and give priority to recommending the pharmacy closest to the patient and able to supply the corresponding drugs;

[0020] c. After the patient chooses a pharmacy, he / she will pay for the purchase. Due to the patient's own objective conditions, the patient can independently choose the most convenient way to supply medicine.

[0021] Further, the following steps are included:

[0022] a. The patient consults online through the Internet, and the doctor writes an electronic prescription. The prescription routing device screens the information of the pharmacy closest to the patient. If there is no drug information that completely matches the patient's prescription nearby, the prescription will be split into several orders, and then the pharmacy will be polled and the pharmacy that can supply the drugs on the prescription will be recorded;

[0023] b. After the patient's prescription drugs are composed of drugs provided by the pharmacy, a data group is formed and pushed to the patient's terminal;

[0024] c. The patient selects the medicines supplied by the pharmacy pushed by the system through the mobile phone. After completing the self-service payment online, the system calls the prescription synchronization interface between the prescription circulation platform and the hospital, automatically synchronizes the paid prescription information to the prescription circulation platform, and saves it on the prescription circulation platform;

[0025] d. The mobile devices used by patients include the prescription circulation platform’s dedicated APP, the prescription circulation platform’s WeChat or Alipay public account, the prescription circulation platform’s WeChat or Alipay mini-program application, etc.

[0026] The present invention provides a prescription circulation method based on routing prescription allocation, which has the following beneficial effects:

[0027] 1. The prescription circulation method based on routing prescription distribution, through the present invention, adds a prescription routing distributor on the basis of the original prescription circulation platform. By comparing the patient's location with the location of the terminal cooperating pharmacy, the pharmacies near the patient are polled for prescription drugs, which greatly avoids the problem of insufficient supply of prescription drugs at the terminal. The method can be widely used in the original prescription circulation platform.

[0028] 2. This prescription circulation method based on routing prescription distribution is that after the patient completes the selection of a pharmacy and chooses self-pickup or pharmacy delivery, after completing the payment, the patient's mobile phone will receive a medicine pickup number sent by the platform. The pharmacy will adjust and review the prescription and wait for delivery or self-pickup by the patient. The patient will go to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine or sign for the express delivery with the medicine pickup number, which solves the problem of insufficient supply of online prescription drugs in offline pharmacies in the traditional prescription circulation based on the Internet. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0029] Figure 1 It is a basic flow chart of the prescription circulation of the present invention;

[0030] Figure 2 The present invention is a flowchart of the prescription flow routing optimization. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0031] The following will be combined with the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention to clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field without creative work are within the scope of protection of the present invention.

[0032] The embodiment of the prescription circulation method based on routing prescription allocation is as follows:

[0033] See also Figure 1-Figure 2 , a prescription circulation method based on routing prescription distribution, comprising the following steps:

[0034] S1. An online consultation platform is set up on the hospital's Internet. Patients can log in to the Internet on the user end and enter this platform for online consultation. The Internet system assigns patients to a professional doctor's platform based on their general condition type;

[0035] When logging into the platform, patients need to fill in basic personal information, such as: patient name, patient gender, patient age, patient ID card, patient mobile phone number, etc.;

[0036] Patients receive their medical card number and case number on the platform and queue up for medical treatment according to the platform;

[0037] S2. After the doctor has a general understanding of the patient's condition and makes detailed inquiries, he or she will make a judgment based on the severity of the patient's condition and issue an electronic prescription. The patient can then enter the prescription circulation platform and receive the electronic prescription issued by the doctor.

[0038] S3. The Internet hospital signs a cooperation agreement with the terminal pharmacy and connects the system with the Internet prescription circulation platform. The prescription circulation platform distributes the hospital's prescriptions to the cooperating pharmacies through the prescription routing distributor;

[0039] S4. The electronic prescription platform will automatically match all nearby qualified pharmacies that meet the patient's prescription medication information based on the content of the prescription, and screen out the nearest pharmacy information through the prescription routing distributor to facilitate the patient to pick up the medicine;

[0040] Pharmacists in drugstores must upload all drugs in the drugstore to the system immediately, match the drug code, drug name, approval number, production unit, and specifications required by the standard drug library with the hospital's system data, and establish a connection;

[0041] S5. Based on the number of drugs on the patient's prescription, if there is no drug information near the patient's address that completely matches the drug information on the patient's prescription, the system will automatically split the prescription into several orders and then re-match the pharmacy;

[0042] S6. After the patient has selected a pharmacy and chosen the method of self-collection or pharmacy delivery, he / she confirms his / her contact information, completes the payment of the medicine, and then the patient's mobile phone will receive a medicine collection number sent by the platform;

[0043] S7. The pharmacy adjusts and reviews the prescription and waits for delivery or self-pickup by the patient. The patient goes to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine or signs for the courier with the medicine collection number. After the patient signs for the courier, the system platform will automatically make notes based on the precautions for each type of medicine and send them to the patient's mobile phone in the form of a text message to remind the patient to use the medicine reasonably.

[0044] Among them, the prescription routing distributor includes:

[0045] 1) Module for calculating the path between patients and pharmacies;

[0046] 2) Terminal pharmacy polling module;

[0047] 3) Prescription order selection module.

[0048] Among them, the module for calculating the path between patients and pharmacies: synchronizes the pharmacy dimension information with the longitude and latitude information of the patient's delivery address to calculate the pharmacies around the patient that can provide prescription drugs, ensuring that the patient can purchase prescription drugs at the best price.

[0049] Among them, the terminal pharmacy polling module: when one pharmacy cannot supply all the drugs in the prescription, the module polls the pharmacies near the patient from near to far to ensure that the drugs in the patient's prescription are supplied.

[0050] The prescription order selection module includes the following steps:

[0051] a. If one pharmacy can supply all the drugs on the prescription, the patient chooses the platform's recommended cooperative pharmacy as the supplier of prescription drugs and pays for the purchase;

[0052] b. If one pharmacy cannot supply all the drugs on the prescription, the platform will split the prescription drugs required by the patient into several orders based on polling of terminal partner pharmacies, and give priority to recommending the pharmacy closest to the patient and able to supply the corresponding drugs;

[0053] c. After the patient chooses a pharmacy, he / she will pay for the purchase. Due to the patient's own objective conditions, the patient can independently choose the most convenient way to supply medicine.

[0054] The steps include:

[0055] a. The patient consults online through the Internet, and the doctor writes an electronic prescription. The prescription routing device screens the information of the pharmacy closest to the patient. If there is no drug information that completely matches the patient's prescription nearby, the prescription will be split into several orders, and then the pharmacy will be polled and the pharmacy that can supply the drugs on the prescription will be recorded;

[0056] b. After the patient's prescription drugs are composed of drugs provided by the pharmacy, a data group is formed and pushed to the patient's terminal;

[0057] c. The patient selects the medicines supplied by the pharmacy pushed by the system through the mobile phone. After completing the self-service payment online, the system calls the prescription synchronization interface between the prescription circulation platform and the hospital, automatically synchronizes the paid prescription information to the prescription circulation platform, and saves it on the prescription circulation platform;

[0058] d. The mobile devices used by patients include the prescription circulation platform’s dedicated APP, the prescription circulation platform’s WeChat or Alipay public account, the prescription circulation platform’s WeChat or Alipay mini-program application, etc.

[0059] Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and variations may be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the present invention, and that the scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A prescription circulation method based on routing prescription allocation, characterized by: The following steps are involved: S1. An online consultation platform is set up on the hospital's Internet. Patients can log in to the Internet on the user end and enter this platform for online consultation. The Internet system assigns patients to a professional doctor's platform based on their general condition type; S2. After the doctor has a general understanding of the patient's condition and makes detailed inquiries, he or she will make a judgment based on the severity of the patient's condition and issue an electronic prescription. The patient can then enter the prescription circulation platform and receive the electronic prescription issued by the doctor. S3. The Internet hospital signs a cooperation agreement with the terminal pharmacy and connects the system with the Internet prescription circulation platform. The prescription circulation platform distributes the hospital's prescriptions to the cooperating pharmacies through the prescription routing distributor; S4. The electronic prescription platform will automatically match all nearby qualified pharmacies that meet the patient's prescription medication information based on the content of the prescription, and screen out the nearest pharmacy information through the prescription routing distributor to facilitate the patient to pick up the medicine; S5. Based on the number of drugs on the patient's prescription, if there is no drug information near the patient's address that completely matches the drug information on the patient's prescription, the system will automatically split the prescription into several orders and then re-match the pharmacy; S6. After the patient has selected a pharmacy and chosen the method of self-collection or pharmacy delivery, he / she confirms his / her contact information and completes the payment for the medicine. Then, the patient’s mobile phone will receive a medicine collection number sent by the platform. S7. The pharmacy adjusts and reviews the prescription and waits for delivery or self-pickup by the patient. The patient goes to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine or signs for the courier with the medicine pickup number.

2. S3 in the prescription circulation method based on routing prescription allocation according to claim 1 is characterized in that: The prescription routing distributor comprises: 1) Module for calculating the path between patients and pharmacies; 2) Terminal pharmacy polling module; 3) Prescription order selection module.

3. A prescription circulation method based on routing prescription allocation according to claim 2, characterized in that: The module for calculating the path between the patient and the pharmacy: synchronizes the pharmacy dimension information with the latitude and longitude information of the patient's delivery address to calculate the pharmacies around the patient that can provide prescription drugs, ensuring that the patient can purchase prescription drugs at the best price.

4. A prescription circulation method based on routing prescription allocation according to claim 2, characterized in that: The terminal pharmacy polling module: when one pharmacy cannot supply all the drugs in the prescription, the module polls the pharmacies near the patient from near to far to ensure that the drugs in the patient's prescription are supplied.

5. The prescription circulation method based on routing prescription allocation according to claim 2 is characterized by: The prescription order selection module: a. If one pharmacy can supply all the drugs on the prescription, the patient chooses the platform's recommended cooperative pharmacy as the supplier of prescription drugs and pays for the purchase; b. If one pharmacy cannot supply all the drugs on the prescription, the platform will split the prescription drugs required by the patient into several orders based on polling of terminal partner pharmacies, and give priority to recommending the pharmacy closest to the patient and able to supply the corresponding drugs; c. After the patient chooses a pharmacy, he / she will pay for the purchase. Due to the patient's own objective conditions, the patient can independently choose the most convenient way to supply medicine.

6. According to S4 of the prescription circulation method based on routing prescription allocation according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: include: a. The patient consults online through the Internet, and the doctor writes an electronic prescription. The prescription routing device screens the information of the pharmacy closest to the patient. If there is no drug information that completely matches the patient's prescription nearby, the prescription will be split into several orders, and then the pharmacy will be polled and the pharmacy that can supply the drugs on the prescription will be recorded; b. After the patient's prescription drugs are composed of drugs provided by the pharmacy, a data group is formed and pushed to the patient's terminal; c. The patient selects the medicines supplied by the pharmacy pushed by the system through the mobile phone. After completing the self-service payment online, the system calls the prescription synchronization interface between the prescription circulation platform and the hospital, automatically synchronizes the paid prescription information to the prescription circulation platform, and saves it on the prescription circulation platform; d. The mobile devices used by patients include the prescription circulation platform dedicated APP, the prescription circulation platform WeChat or Alipay public account, and the prescription circulation platform WeChat or Alipay mini-program application.

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