Digital Script Repository for Shared Prescription History Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic prescription systems reintroduce human errors and limit patient choice, fail to compile comprehensive prescription histories, and lack bidirectional information flow, impeding efficient healthcare delivery and disease monitoring.
Innovation Solution
A system for generating, managing, and sharing digital scripts that allows multi-directional flow of prescription information, enabling secure access and update by patients and healthcare providers, with encryption and encoding to maintain privacy and integrity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If CPOE scripts are transmitted electronically to designated pharmacies, then human errors associated with paper scripts are reduced, but patient ability to inspect scripts and compile prescription history is impeded
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a digital script repository as an intermediary system that stores electronic scripts and makes them accessible to patients, providers, and pharmacies. This mediator enables patients to view and download their prescription history while maintaining the electronic transmission benefits, thus resolving the contradiction between error reduction and information accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a new dimension of information access by creating a centralized digital repository that allows multi-party access (patients, providers, pharmacies) to script information. This transforms the unidirectional provider-to-pharmacy transmission into a multi-dimensional information sharing ecosystem where all stakeholders can access prescription history.
2Productivity
If CPOE scripts are delivered directly to pharmacies bypassing patients, then prescription filling efficiency is improved, but patient choice of pharmacy is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic system where digital scripts are not permanently bound to a single designated pharmacy. Instead, patients can access and transfer scripts to different pharmacies as needed, while the system maintains efficient electronic delivery to the current designated pharmacy. This dynamic approach allows both efficient processing and patient flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables patients to self-manage their prescription information by allowing them to view, download, and transfer their digital scripts to different pharmacies. This self-service capability empowers patients to choose their preferred pharmacy without requiring provider intervention, thus maintaining efficiency while enhancing patient choice.
3Device complexity
If unidirectional script flow is used from providers to pharmacies, then system complexity is reduced, but comprehensive prescription history compilation is prevented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal digital script repository that serves multiple functions: storing scripts, enabling patient access, facilitating provider access, supporting pharmacy dispensing, and allowing script transfer. This multi-functional system compiles comprehensive prescription history across all these uses without requiring separate unidirectional systems for each function.
4Reliability
If digital scripts are encrypted and secured, then patient privacy and data integrity are protected, but system accessibility and ease of operation may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system automatically manages encryption keys and authentication credentials, providing users with simple access interfaces without requiring them to understand or manage the underlying security complexity. The system feedback loop handles security verification transparently, maintaining both security and ease of use.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure generally relates to improved systems and methods for generating, managing, and sharing digital scripts—which are accessible to patients and/or health care providers and may be accepted by any appropriate prescription dispensary—as well as a comprehensive, real-time source of patient prescription history in compliance with and furtherance of the Meaningful Use regulations. The systems and methods may support the multi-directional flow of script information to improve disease monitoring and treatment, to mitigate patient health risks like undesirable drug interactions, to identify social factors like patient ability to afford prescriptions, and to prevent prescription fraud like forged refills.