NETWORKABLE MEDICAL LABELING APPARATUS AND METHOD

• US 20180314478A1
• Filed: 05/01/2018
• Published: 11/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Codonics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Codonics Incorporated
• Inventors: KEEFE, Gary, SRNKA, Lawrence
• Granted Patent: US 10,409,535 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1208 resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1243 Variable data printing, e.g. document forms, templates, labels, coupons, advertisements, logos, watermarks, transactional printing, fixed content versioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/125 Page layout or assigning input pages onto output media, e.g. imposition
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1255 Settings incompatibility, e.g. constraints, user requirements vs. device capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/22 Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Provided are a system and method of generating a label comprising label content based on information stored by a plurality of different databases. The system includes an interface that receives an order ID. A communication system transmits the order ID over a communication network to a remotely-located terminal, and receives order data comprising information obtained from a record in a first database. A memory device that is locally connected to the interface locally stores a second database comprising rules defining requirements of a drug labeling standard. The memory device stores insufficient information to locally interpret the order ID. A label generator applies at least one of the rules using a portion of the received order data and a portion of information locally stored in the second database to control a label printer that prints the label in compliance with the drug labeling standard.

Claims

1. A system for generating a label comprising label content based on information stored by a plurality of different databases, the system comprising:

an interface that receives an order ID that uniquely identifies an order for a drug to be administered to a patient;

a communication system that;

(i) transmits the order ID over a communication network to a remotely-located terminal that has access to a first database storing a record corresponding to the order ID, and (ii) receives, over the communication network, order data comprising information obtained from the record in the first database based on the order ID, wherein the order data is related to the order for the drug to be administered to the patient;

a memory device that is locally connected to the interface and locally stores a second database comprising rules defining requirements of a drug labeling standard, wherein the requirements are to be satisfied by the label to render the label compliant with the drug labeling standard, and wherein the memory device stores insufficient information to locally interpret the order ID; and

a label generator that applies at least one of the rules using a portion of the received order data and a portion of information locally stored in the second database to control a label printer that prints the label in compliance with the drug labeling standard.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein information about at least one of the requirements of the drug labeling standard is missing from the order data received by the communication system, and the label generator supplements the order information with the information about the at least one of the requirements that is missing from the order data to produce the label in compliance with the drug labeling standard.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the at least one of the requirements of the drug labeling standard that is missing from the order data is a color code associated with a class of the drug that is to be printed onto the label.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the at least one of the requirements of the drug labeling standard that is missing from the order data is formatting information defining a format of content that is to be printed onto the label.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the label generator supplements the received order information with additional information about the drug retrieved from the memory device, and produces the label to include the received order information as supplemented by the additional information.