SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HOSPITAL PATIENTS WITH RETAIL PHARMACY SERVICES

摘要

In a system and method for filling post-discharge medications of a hospital patient a first receive signal carries a consent indicator indicating consent by the hospital patient or a caregiver of the hospital patient to fill at least one post-discharge medication prescribed or to be prescribed to the hospital patient, a second received signal carries an identifier of one of a plurality of affiliated retail pharmacies at which to fill the at least one post-discharge medication, the consent indicator is transmitted to a Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) service used by a physician of the hospital patient to process the at least one post-discharge medical prescription prescribed thereby in order to gain access to the at least one medical prescription prescribed by the patient's physician, the at least one medical prescription from the PBM service is received based on the consent indicator, and the obtained at least one medical prescription is transmitted to the identified one of the plurality of retail pharmacies with instructions to fill the at least one medical prescription.