System for separating and distributing pharmacy order processing for compound medication
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1. A method of managing drug prescription orders within a network of pharmacy resources connected by an information processing system, the method comprising:
- creating an original order data (OOD) object containing a set of information received from a customer during placement of a compound drug prescription order;
creating a task object that is associated with the OOD object, wherein the task object stores work associated with the OOD object;
identifying an equipment type indicator associated with the prescription order;
determining an equipment capacity of a pharmacy resource based on the equipment type indicator; and
routing at least one of the OOD object and task object from a first queue associated with a first network computer to a second queue associated with a second network computer based on the equipment capacity, and wherein the first and second network computer are associated with a first and a second pharmacy resource, respectively.
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Abstract
An information system and method that provides the ability to reroute portions of prescription order work between a plurality of organizational units in order to leverage capacity, expertise, or other resources to increase network efficiency.
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1. A method of managing drug prescription orders within a network of pharmacy resources connected by an information processing system, the method comprising:
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creating an original order data (OOD) object containing a set of information received from a customer during placement of a compound drug prescription order;
creating a task object that is associated with the OOD object, wherein the task object stores work associated with the OOD object;
identifying an equipment type indicator associated with the prescription order;
determining an equipment capacity of a pharmacy resource based on the equipment type indicator; and
routing at least one of the OOD object and task object from a first queue associated with a first network computer to a second queue associated with a second network computer based on the equipment capacity, and wherein the first and second network computer are associated with a first and a second pharmacy resource, respectively. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13)
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14. A compound drug pharmacy workflow system implemented by a computer system, the system comprising:
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an image object associated with a prescription order;
a task object associated with the prescription order, wherein the task object comprises an equipment type parameter indicating a compound drug value; and
a first workflow manager that determines a first set of pharmacy network facilities having equipment capacity to process a compound drug prescription, and wherein the workflow manager routes at least one of the image object and the task object to a queue associated with one of the first set of pharmacy network facilities. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for providing a compound drug prescription order workflow, comprising:
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a first program that receives original order data and creates an original order data object;
a second program that creates a task object and associates the task object with the original order data object;
a third program that identifies a specialty equipment indicator associated with the task object; and
a fourth program that routes the task object and one of the original order data object and a reference to the original order data object from a queue associated with a first network computer to a queue associated with a second network computer based on the specialty equipment indicator.
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