Pharmacy Dispensing System and Method
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1. A system for filling a prescription order for a patient comprising:
- a tray including a unique identifier associated with a prescription order of a patient;
a filling workstation including a display screen; and
a reader communicatively coupled to the filling workstation configured to read the unique identifier of the tray when the tray is located at the filling workstation;
wherein the filling workstation is configured to display information related to the prescription order to be filled at the filling workstation on the display screen as a result of the reader reading 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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1. A system for filling a prescription order for a patient comprising:
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a tray including a unique identifier associated with a prescription order of a patient; a filling workstation including a display screen; and a reader communicatively coupled to the filling workstation configured to read the unique identifier of the tray when the tray is located at the filling workstation; wherein the filling workstation is configured to display information related to the prescription order to be filled at the filling workstation on the display screen as a result of the reader reading the unique identifier. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system for filling a prescription order for a patient, comprising:
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a tray having an RFID tag; a tray programmer to program a unique identifier into the RFID tag of the tray, wherein the unique identifier is associated with a prescription order; and a workstation that comprises; a display, and a reader coupled to the display for detecting the unique identifier, wherein, as a result of detecting the unique identifier, the display presents a profile information corresponding to at least one individual prescription item to be filled for the prescription order while the tray is located at the workstation. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for filling a prescription medication order, comprising:
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a prescription medication order that consists of a first subset and a second subset; a plurality of trays that include a respective plurality of unique machine-readable tray identifiers, the plurality of trays including a first tray with a first tray identifier associated with the first subset of the prescription medication order and a second tray with a second tray identifier associated with the second subset of the prescription medication order; a database which includes prescription data representative of at least one prescription item, data representative of the at least one of the plurality of tray identifiers, and data which associates the first tray identifier with the prescription data; and a workstation in communication with the database, and including a display screen and a tray identifier reader configured to read the plurality of tray identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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