Remote Pharmaceutical Verification

• US 20180225818A1
• Filed: 01/30/2018
• Published: 08/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interlink AI Incorporated
• Original Assignee: PerceptiMed, Inc.
• Inventors: Jacobs, Alan, Jacobs, Jennifer, Nikitina, Yana
• Granted Patent: US 10,297,019 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/00 General identification or selection means
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0076 Medicament distribution means with pill counting devices A61J7/02; with time indication A61J7/04; containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents B65D83/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/00 Pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0004 Industrial image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/66 Trinkets, e.g. shirt buttons or jewellery items recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A pill verification system obtains a prescription filled at a pharmacy and gathers information of the pills being dispensed for a remote pharmacist to verify the prescription. As pills are dispensed to a pill vial to fill the prescription, a pill imaging system captures images of the pills, and a pill vial imaging system captures an image of the pill vial. The prescription, pill images, and pill vial image are transmitted to a remote verification system. A pharmacist is presented with the prescription, images of substantially all pills filling the prescription, and the pill vial of the prescription to verify the prescription is correct. The remote verification system may present prescriptions filled from many different pharmacies, permitting increased rate of verification and one pharmacist to support many pharmacies. The pharmacist'"'"'s verification is transmitted to the pill verification system and displayed for a technician to complete verification of the pills.

Claims

1. A method for remote verification of a filled prescription, the method comprising:

receiving prescription information for a prescription to be dispensed to a patient;

receiving pill verification information from a pill verification system of at least one pill filling the prescription;

displaying the prescription information and the pill verification information on a display, wherein the display enables a user to review the pill verification information;

receiving a response to the information from an interface, the response accepting or rejecting the filled prescription; and

transmitting the response to the prescription filling location.