Digital Capturing Pharmaceutical System

• US 20060290886A1
• Filed: 05/24/2005
• Published: 12/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dario Santos
• Original Assignee: Dario Santos
• Inventors: Santos, Dario Marcondes
• Application Number:
  US10/908,735
• Publication Number:
  US 20060290886A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 351/243
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients

Abstract

DCPS Digital Capture Pharmaceutical System is consisting of a brand new use for a widely existing specific available hardware, in the purpose of collecting pharmaceutical doctor/consumer/discount coupon/drug and drug sales information, done at pharmacies, drugstores or like. The developed system, that allows this new utility model, works on the Client Side and or Server Side.

Claims

1. It'"'"'s the new use of Lottery terminals or future assembled-like terminals, from now on known as “

DCPS terminal”

, in the purpose of capturing pharmaceutical (doctor/consumer/drug/discount coupon) and drug sales information, done at pharmacies, drugstores or like.

2. Digital Capturing Pharmaceutical System—

Client Side—

Pharmaceutical Capture System running on the DCPS terminal or future assembled like, on pharmacies or drugstores with the special characteristic of being the sole system to run and to use the hardware resources set (motherboard, barcode readers, hard drives, game slip image scanner or like, touch screen, screen, keyboard, mouse, cd-r/rw unit, dvd-r/rw unit, printer, dial-up modems, flash memory devices, tapes, networking and communication ports) in the purpose of capturing electronic information data from sold and non-sold drugs plus the images of the corresponding doctor'"'"'s prescription (its all types of copies or its hard copy) and discount coupons sourced in the same hardware set. Each fields set plus images are recorded on the DCPS terminal'"'"'s hard drive, or on-line transmitted, or recorded into any type of existing electronic or optical medias.

3. DCPS Digital Capture Pharmaceutical System—

Server Side;

This system works by the server side in dependence to DCPS System—

Client Side. The claim is the appending mode of information data on database tables, based on the selective learning process of the identifiers from specific doctor'"'"'s prescription images.

4. DCPS Terminal—

Surrounded “

in-loco”

OCR capture of the Doctor'"'"'s code ID field image upon the touch screen surface. The scanned prescription full image (front and back images) will be displayed on the DCPS terminal screen. This brand new feature, will allow an exclusive instant OCR and digital capture of the doctor'"'"'s code ID (CRM in Brazil). In order to achieve it, the operator will touch and drag his finger upon the displayed image on the screen, surrounding directly (forming an imaginary text box around the doctor'"'"'s code IMAGE) the doctor'"'"'s code ID (CRM in Brazil), selecting it, for an instant micro OCR resulting as a digital capture of it.

5. (DCPS Terminal) make it possible to capture information about missing medicine on the local pharmacy or drugstore using a magic search on the drugs'"'"' terminal table for specifying that missing drug.

6. (DCPS Terminal) Capturing of the out of stock drug information and its substitute information on local pharmacies/drugstores.