Abstract: Prediction methods including statistical and artificial intelligence methods to predict the prescribing behavior and characteristics and size of patient populations under the care of health care providers from limited data, based on processes developed on integrated medical and pharmaceutical claims data. Prescribers can be classified into groups and subgroups, and marketing recommendations can be made to organizations with interest in the drug prescriptions based on prescription data; sales force effectiveness and marketing message effectiveness products can also be developed.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 28, 2005
Publication date:
September 8, 2005
Applicant:
PharMetrics, Inc.
Inventors:
Daniel Paterson, Dane Morgan, Gerbrand Ceder, Stan Norton
Abstract: A system identifies a clinician's specialty by examining procedures performed by that clinician, the diagnoses made by the clinician, and the age and gender of the clinician's patients.