ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,664, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).
"Addiction predictor and relapse detection support tool" was invented by Richard Matthew Balian (Birdsboro, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are provided for predicting an individual's likelihood of addiction or relapse to pharmaceuticals that include controlled or addictive substances. The prediction can be used to generate an alert that, in some aspects, prevents care provider actions in an electronic health record system that are related to the addictive pharmaceutical until the prediction is acknowledged. Further, the data used as i...