a patient 39 s prescription in some cases a pharmacy may automatically send a patient medications the enhanced communication between medical professionals m provided by the medical professional monitoring system 10 advantageously prevents this type of redundancy and or waste a pharmacy for example may also be enabled with the ability to check whether the medical professional m still desires a patient to receive the medication or if it has been cancelled or changed before dispensing the medical professional monitoring system 10 may for example also advantageously provide a physician access to several different medications available to be prescribed for a certain condition accordingly the physician may be able to prescribe a generic medication which in turn may save money for patients the medical professional monitoring system 10 may for example further advantageously prevent insurance fraud for example the enhanced communication provided by the medical professional monitoring system 10 between medical professionals m prevents non medical professionals from accessing certain databases and making changes e g calling a fraudulent prescription into a pharmacy the medical professional monitoring system 10 of the present invention also advantageously includes searching and indexing capabilities for example the searching and indexing capabilities advantageously allows a medical professional m using the medical professional monitoring system 10 to search patient information on the patient information database 22 those skilled in the art will appreciate that the searching and indexing capability of the medical professional monitoring system 10 is secured accordingly medical professionals m may advantageously access information on the system 10 in a manner that allows for the security of patient information for example to be maintained.