PRESCRIPTION FULFILLMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD
First Claim
1. A method for fulfillment of medical prescriptions issued by a prescriptionist for a patient and fulfilled by a medical products supplier, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a patient with a prescription authorization card having a unique identifier associated with the patient and an electronically addressable memory readable by an electronic sensor that communicates with a remote information center at a medical products supplier;
(b) encoding the electronically addressable memory with a medical prescription for a medical product;
(c) communicating the medical prescription for the medical product for the patient to a remote information center associated with a medical products provider; and
(d) delivering the medical product subject of the medical prescription to the patient.
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Abstract
A system for fulfillment by a medical products supplier of medical prescriptions issued by a prescriptionist for patients with reimbursement by a third party provider, in which each patient is provided with a uniquely associated prescription authorization card having an electronically addressable memory encoded by a data station with the medical prescription and communicating the medial prescription to the medical products supplier with a distributor that provides the medical product from the medical products supplier to the patient upon presentation of the prescription authorization card to the distributor, a second data station configured for authenticating the delivery of the medical product to the patient, and a payment transferor for payment for the medical product upon delivery.
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23 Claims
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1. A method for fulfillment of medical prescriptions issued by a prescriptionist for a patient and fulfilled by a medical products supplier, comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a patient with a prescription authorization card having a unique identifier associated with the patient and an electronically addressable memory readable by an electronic sensor that communicates with a remote information center at a medical products supplier; (b) encoding the electronically addressable memory with a medical prescription for a medical product; (c) communicating the medical prescription for the medical product for the patient to a remote information center associated with a medical products provider; and (d) delivering the medical product subject of the medical prescription to the patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for fulfillment of medical prescriptions issued by a prescriptionist for one of a plurality of patients with reimbursement by a third party provider and fulfilled by a medical products supplier, comprising:
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a plurality of prescription authorization cards, each having a unique identifier associated with one of a plurality of patients for whom medical prescriptions are issued by a prescriptionist and an electronically addressable memory; a first data station interactively operative for encoding the electronically addressable memory of the prescription authorization card with a medical prescription for the patient by the prescriptionist; a communicator configured for communicating the medical prescription to a medical products supplier; a distributor that provides the medical product subject of the medical prescription from the medical products supplier to the patient; and a payment transferor that transfers payment for the medical product to the medical product supplier. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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