PHARMACY DISPENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD
First Claim
1. A filling workstation for filling a prescription order for a patient within a pharmacy having a plurality of trays each including a unique identifier and the unique identifier of one of the trays is associated with a prescription order of the patient, the workstation comprising:
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a display screen in communication with the computer; and
a reader configured to read the unique identifier of each tray when each tray is located at the filling workstation and transmit identifier data representative of the unique identifiers to the computer;
wherein the prescription order includes individual prescription items and the computer is configured to communicate with the display screen to display information related to an individual prescription item to be placed in the tray associated with the unique identifier.
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Abstract
A system for filling a prescription order for a patient includes a plurality of trays each having an RFID tag for storing a unique identifier corresponding to the prescription order, and a plurality of workstations operatively linked to one another, each workstation having an antenna for detecting the unique identifier in one of the plurality of trays, where the detecting is operative to trigger displaying of a profile of at least one prescription item for the corresponding prescription order.
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20 Claims
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1. A filling workstation for filling a prescription order for a patient within a pharmacy having a plurality of trays each including a unique identifier and the unique identifier of one of the trays is associated with a prescription order of the patient, the workstation comprising:
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a computer; a display screen in communication with the computer; and a reader configured to read the unique identifier of each tray when each tray is located at the filling workstation and transmit identifier data representative of the unique identifiers to the computer; wherein the prescription order includes individual prescription items and the computer is configured to communicate with the display screen to display information related to an individual prescription item to be placed in the tray associated with the unique identifier. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A computerized prescription filling workstation for filling a prescription order within a pharmacy, the order including at least one prescription item, the workstation including a a reader configured to read unique machine-readable identifiers from each of a plurality of containers and a database which includes prescription data representative of at least one prescription item, and data representative of the identifiers of for containers, wherein the database includes an association between the data representative of a prescription item and the data representative of the identifier for an associated container, the workstation comprising:
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a display; and a workstation computer configured to be communicably coupled to the display, the reader and the database, the workstation computer configured to receive the identifier read by the reader and to receive prescription data from the database; wherein the workstation computer is configured communicate with the display to display information representative of an individual prescription item to be placed in a container having an identifier represented by data in the database associated with the prescription item. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. A computerized method for filling a prescription order for a patient within a pharmacy, the method comprising:
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associating an individual prescription item of a prescription order with a unique container identifier; receiving the unique container identifier from an electronic reading device of a prescription filling workstation; and controlling a display screen to display information representative of an individual prescription item to be placed in the container having the unique container identifier associated with the individual prescription item. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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