Abstract: Improving prescription adherence for discharged patients is of growing importance for healthcare providers, accountable care organizations, and insurance providers. Patients have several reasons for deviating from a course of treatment or falsifying data to indicate that they are following a course of treatment. By removing the patient from the reporting chain, the risk of falsified data is reduced, and healthcare providers can intervene and adapt treatments to account for non-adherence to a course of treatment. Existing electronic medical record systems and methods, however, are cumbersome and do not allow for adherence information to be reliably collected and presented to healthcare providers to use in the ongoing or future treatment of a patient.

Abstract: Systems and methods for ensuring closed-loop communications between senders and receivers of referrals are of increasing importance to healthcare providers of all types. Healthcare providers are increasingly using electronic medical records to send referrals and other medical information between one another, but have no real way to ensure that a receiving party responds or that a reply includes useful or well-formatted information that is compatible with the original sender's systems. To ensure that receivers complete the communication loop with useful and well-formatted information, structured requests are incorporated into the referrals. Senders designate how a receiver may reply to a request as part of a referral and generate communications to ensure that receivers respond the referrals.