Patents by Inventor Gregory B. Ehrhardt

Gregory B. Ehrhardt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8126741
    Abstract: A system for managing prescription data is provided. The system for managing prescription data includes a switch system. The switch system is configured to receive prescription submissions from pharmacy systems, submit the prescription submissions to approval systems, receive responses from the approval systems, and transmit the responses to the pharmacy systems. The switch system is further configured to receive treatment classification data including pathogen groups and pharmaceuticals prescribed to treat symptoms occurring from exposure to each pathogen group. The switch system is further configured to determine normal variations of the prescription submissions, detect anomalous variations of the prescription submissions, and generate a notification in response to detecting an anomalous variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: HCC, Inc.
    Inventors: William Rex Akers, Craig Alan Walker, Michael T. Rupp, Gregory B. Ehrhardt, Christian T. Ehrhardt, Brian M. Hudson, Matthew M. Bergmann
  • Publication number: 20110196696
    Abstract: A system for managing prescription data is provided. The system for managing prescription data includes a switch system. The switch system is configured to receive prescription submissions from pharmacy systems. Each prescription submission identifies a prescription having a prescription item, a fill date, a number of dosages, an identification of whether the prescription requires refilling, and a dose frequency. The switch system is further configured to submit the prescription submissions to approval systems, receive responses from the approval systems, and transmit the responses to the pharmacy systems. The switch system is further configured to determine, using the plurality of prescription submissions, when each of the prescriptions identified by the plurality of prescription submissions should be refilled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: William Rex Akers, Craig Alan Walker, Michael T. Rupp, Gregory B. Ehrhardt, Christian T. Ehrhardt, Brian M. Hudson, Matthew M. Bergmann
  • Publication number: 20110196697
    Abstract: A system for managing prescription data is provided. The system for managing prescription data includes a switch system. The switch system is configured to receive first prescription submissions, each of which identifies a prescription item and has a submitted price for the prescription item. The switch system is further configured to submit the first prescription submissions to an approval system and receive responses to the first prescription submissions. Each response identifies an approved price or a denial. The switch system is configured to receive a second prescription submission from a pharmacy system, where the second prescription submission identifies the prescription item and has a submitted price for the prescription item. The switch system is further configured to determine if the submitted price is less than an approved price in the responses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: William Rex Akers, Craig Alan Walker, Michael T. Rupp, Gregory B. Ehrhardt, Christian T. Ehrhardt, Brian M. Hudson, Matthew M. Bergmann
  • Publication number: 20110153354
    Abstract: A system for managing prescription data is provided. The system for managing prescription data includes a switch system. The switch system is configured to receive prescription submissions from pharmacy systems, submit the prescription submissions to approval systems, receive responses from the approval systems, and transmit the responses to the pharmacy systems. The switch system is further configured to receive treatment classification data including pathogen groups and pharmaceuticals prescribed to treat symptoms occurring from exposure to each pathogen group. The switch system is further configured to determine normal variations of the prescription submissions, detect anomalous variations of the prescription submissions, and generate a notification in response to detecting an anomalous variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: William Rex Akers, Craig Alan Walker, Michael T. Rupp, Gregory B. Ehrhardt, Christian T. Ehrhardt, Brian M. Hudson, Matthew M. Bergmann
  • Patent number: 7899686
    Abstract: A system for managing prescription data is provided. The system includes a switch system receiving prescription data from a pharmacy, such as medicine identification data, dosage data, number of doses data, fill date data, and number of refills data. A data volume sales system generates volume sales data from the prescription data, such as the percentage of a given type of medicine sold for a manufacturer relative to all manufacturers for that medicine. A data volume rebate by unit system receives the prescription data and, the volume sales data and generates incentive target reward data, such as the number of additional units of medicine that must be sold to reach a predetermined sales volume associated with a rebate level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Inventors: William Rex Akers, Craig Alan Walker, Michael T. Rupp, Gregory B. Ehrhardt, Christian T. Ehrhardt, Brian M. Hudson, Matthew M. Bergmann