Patient-led prescription refill grouping system and method

1 . A patient-led prescription refill grouping system for improving pharmacy system efficiency and reducing electronic storage resources by reducing a volume of electronic message transactions, comprising:

a processor configured to

analyze a patient profile stored in an electronic memory of the pharmacy system to automatically determine whether a patient is projected to run out of a first prescription medication within a first window of time extending a first number of days ahead of a current day,

in response to a determination that the patient is projected to run out of the first prescription medication within the first window of time, trigger a second analysis of the patient profile to

automatically determine whether the patient is eligible to receive a refill of one or more second prescription medications within a second window of time extending a second number of days from a day when the patient is projected to run out of the first prescription medication,

automatically determine whether contact information associated with the patient is associated with another patient;

in response to a determination that the contact information is associated with the another patient, trigger analysis of a patient profile of the other patient stored in the electronic memory of the pharmacy system to

automatically determine whether the other patient is eligible to receive a refill of a third prescription medication within the second window of time; and

automatically generate and send a single electronic message based on the contact information associated with the patient, wherein the single sent electronic message includes a link to an electronically-accessible patient portal,

wherein, in response to a determination that the patient is eligible to receive the refill of the one or more second prescription medications within the second window of time and in response to a determination that the other patient is eligible to receive the refill of the third prescription medication within the second window of time, the patient portal

i. provides an option of a refill order of the first prescription medication and the one or more second prescription medications,

ii. provides an option of a refill order of the first prescription medication and the third prescription medication,

iii. provides an option of a refill order of the first prescription medication, the one or more second prescription medications and the third prescription medication,

iv. receives a refill order selected from the group consisting of i, ii or iii;

thereby reducing electronic storage resources by reducing the volume of electronic message transactions between the patient and the pharmacy system.

2 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the first number of days of the first window of time and the second number of days of the second window of time are preset in the system.

3 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to determine whether the patient is projected to run out of the first prescription medication within the first window of time once each day.

4 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the patient portal provides an option to receive the refill order via mail.

5 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the patient portal provides an option to select a pharmacy location at which to pick up the refill order.

6 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the patient portal provides an option to pick up the refill order on a selected day.

7 . The system according to claim 6 , wherein the patient portal provides an option to schedule a pharmacy appointment on the selected day for one or more of (i) receiving immunization, (ii) insurance counseling, or (iii) point of care testing.

8 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor determines that the patient is eligible to receive the refill of the one or more second prescription medications within the second window of time when the patient is projected to run out of the one or more second prescription medications within the second window of time.

9 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor determines that the patient is eligible to receive the refill of the one or more second prescription medications within the second window of time when the patient's utilization of a previously filled order of the one or more second prescription medications is projected to be above a utilization threshold within the second window of time.

10 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to send the electronic message a third number of days prior to the day when the patient is projected to run out of the first prescription medication, wherein the third number of days is configurable by the patient in the patient portal.

11 . The system according to claim 1 , further comprising sending a reminder electronic message when the refill order is not received within a fourth number of days after sending the electronic message.

12 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein, in response to a determination that the patient is eligible to receive the refill of the one or more second prescription medications within the second window of time, the sent message lists the first prescription medication and the one or more second prescription medications and provides an option to respond to the electronic message to order a refill of both the first prescription medication and the one or more second prescription medications without accessing the patient portal.

13 . A patient-led prescription refill grouping method for improving pharmacy system efficiency and reducing electronic storage resources by reducing a volume of, electronic message transactions, comprising:

automatically determining, by a processing system, whether a patient is projected to run out of a first prescription medication within a first window of time extending a first number of days ahead of a current day by analyzing a patient profile stored in an electronic memory of the pharmacy system;

in response to a determination that the patient is projected to run out of the first prescription medication within the first window of time, triggering a second analysis of the patient profile and

determining whether the patient is eligible to receive a refill of one or more second prescription medications within a second window of time extending a second number of days from a day when the patient is projected to run out of the first prescription medication,

determining whether contact information associated with the patient is associated with another patient;

in response to a determining that the contact information is associated

with the another patient, triggering analysis of a patient profile of the other patient stored in the electronic memory of the pharmacy system and automatically determining whether the other patient is eligible to receive a refill of a third prescription medication within the second window of time and

automatically generate and send a single electronic message based on the contact information associated with the patient, wherein the single sent electronic message includes a link to an electronically-accessible patient portal,

wherein, in response to a determination that the patient is eligible to receive the refill of the one or more second prescription medications within the second window of time and in response to a determination that the other patient is eligible to receive the refill of the third prescription medication within the second window of time,

i. providing, by the patient portal, an option of a refill order of the first prescription medication and the one or more second prescription medications and

ii. providing, by the patient portal, an option of a refill order of the first prescription medication and the third prescription medication,

iii. providing, by the patient portal, an option of a refill order of the first prescription medication, the one or more second prescription medications and the third prescription medication,

iv. receiving, via the patient portal, a refill order selected from the group consisting of i, ii or iii;

thereby reducing electronic storage resources by reducing the volume of electronic message transactions between the patient and the pharmacy system.