DAVID CHARLES SUBICH, MD
Osteopathic Medicine at Sturges Ave, Mansfield, OH

2002016, Oct 31, 2002

Feb 23, 2001

09/790385

David Subich - Mansfield OH, US

G06F017/60, A61B005/00

705/003000, 600/300000

A pharmaceutical drug sample tracking and control method. Pharmaceutical drug manufacturers send pharmaceutical drug samples bearing pharmaceutical drug sample indicia to dispensing locations where an indicia reader is used to read the pharmaceutical drug sample indicia into a dispensing location database. As pharmaceutical drug samples are dispensed to patients, an indicia reader is used to read the pharmaceutical drug sample indicia on pharmaceutical drug samples thus dispensed into the dispensing location database. Inventory software tracks inventory levels by subtracting pharmaceutical drug samples dispensed to patients from the previous recorded inventories. Pharmaceutical drug manufacturers can access inventory levels at dispensing locations remotely. Practitioners enter patient information, practitioner information, adverse reaction information and patient outcomes in the dispensing location database. Interested parties can access this information. Pharmaceutical drug manufacturers may instruct an intermediary to determine patient test group lists, patient newsletter lists, and lists of patients to whom drug recall and/or advisory information should be sent, and may further instruct the intermediary to send appropriate invitations, newsletters, and information to such patients, thereby maintaining patient confidentiality.