Method and system for delivering to a customer a plurality of prescriptions having aligned refill dates

US8666776B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• WALGREEN CO. · US

Inventors

• Gyula Jozsef Nadas · Wauconda, US
• Christina M. Palazzolo · Chicago, US
• Greg Pankow · Morton Grove, US
• Hee Kyu Oh · Wilmette, US
• Peter Liccardo · Evanston, US
• Laura Jean Tebbe · Antioch, US
• Guirong Zhou Webb · Vernon Hills, US
• Steve Scott Dorfman · Chicago, US
• Rishi Khullar · Deerfield, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 13, 2012
• Grant date: Mar 4, 2014
• Expiry date: Jul 13, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H70/40
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The method and system allows alignment of refill dates associated with a plurality of prescriptions, such that the plurality of prescriptions all require refills on the same date, thus limiting the number of occasions on which a customer must visit the pharmacy to retrieve refills of the aligned prescriptions, and increasing the likelihood that the customer will comply with the recommended medication regimen. Further, the method and system provides various methods of delivery to the customer of the plurality of aligned prescriptions on the refill dates.