Pharmaceutical record and label system

• US 4,159,129 A
• Filed: 09/09/1977
• Issued: 06/26/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James L. Lockhart
• Original Assignee: James L. Lockhart
• Inventors: Lockhart, James L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Abercrombie, Willie G.
• Application Number:
  US05/831,818
• Time in Patent Office: 655 Days
• Field of Search: 282/27 R, 282/27 A, 282/28 R, 40/158 R
• US Class Current: 462/67
• CPC Class Codes: B41L 1/26 Continuous assemblies made up of webs
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0288 Labels or tickets consisting of more than one part, e.g. with address of sender or other reference on separate section to main label; Multi-copy labels
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/90 Medical record

Abstract

In an illustrated embodiment, a backing sheet capable of storing information relative to pharmaceutical prescriptions has a first series of adhesively backed pharmaceutical prescription label segments removably secured thereto, each label segment having formatted zones thereon for facilitating entry of typed information and accommodating simultaneous transfer of typewriter impressions to the backing sheet. A second series of supplemental data segments on the backing sheet provide for recording of supplementary information with respect to each label segment contemporaneously with the typing of the label segment. After removal of a prescription label segment from the backing sheet, the backing sheet has stored thereon both the formatted information as entered on the label segment and necessary supplemental data so as to facilitate computerized pharmaceutical accounting.

Claims

1. In a record and label system for computerized pharamaceutical accounting wherein both label information and non-label information are required for the preparation of a pre-established pharmaceutical invoice by each of a multiplicity of pharamaceutical dispensing entities, said non-label information comprising a unique relatively lengthy multidigit doctor identification number and a unique relatively lengthy multidigit item identification number each of which being unique for individual doctors and individual pharmaceutical items, respectively, at the invoice-receiving agency,

said record and label system comprising:

a backing sheet capable of storing information relative to pharmaceutical presciptions transferred thereto as character impressions, in a readable form,

a first series of adhesively backed pharamaceutical prescription label segments adhesively secured to portions of said backing sheet with an interface therebetween permitting manual stripping of the label segments with adhesive backing in tact from said backing sheet,

said label segments each having a front surface with formatted zones thereon for facilitating entry of typed information onto such front surface while accommodating simultaneous transfer of the imprinted characters to said backing sheet, and

a second series of supplemental data segments on the backing sheet to provide for recording of supplementary information with respect to each label segment at a location on the backing sheet adjacent the space on the backing sheet storing character impressions with reference to the label segment,

the backing sheet after entry of information on the prescription label segments and removal of the label segments, having a succession of unified identifiable regions each such region having both formatted information as entered on a label segment and necessary supplementary data pertaining to a given prescription and necessary to the preparation of said pharmaceutical invoice, each said unified identifiable region of the backing sheet comprising individual selective entry records including a relatively abbreviated individual item code and a relatively abbreviated individual doctor code, each having a meaning for a given individual pharmaceutical dispensing unit which has prepared such individual selective entry records on a given backing sheet, and

pharmaceutical dispensing unit identifying means directly associated with each backing sheet for providing a unique identification of the individual pharmaceutical dispensing unit which has prepared the individual selective entry records on such backing sheet,

whereby the pharmaceutical invoices for any of a multiplicity of pharmaceutical dispensing units may be prepared at a central data processing station, utilizing the relatively abbreviated individual item codes and the relatively abbreviated individual doctor codes in conjunction with the unique pharmaceutical dispensing unit identifying means directly associated therewith.

2. A record and label system for computerized pharmaceutical accounting, comprising

a backing sheet capable of storing information relative to pharmaceutical prescriptions transferred thereto as character impressions, in a readable form,

a front preprinted sheet secured to said backing sheet and providing a first series of adhesively backed pharmaceutical prescription label segments adhesively secured to portions of said backing sheet with an interface therebetween permitting manual stripping of the label segments with adhesive backing in tact from said backing sheet,

said label segments each having a front surface with preprinted formatted zones thereon for facilitating entry of typed information onto such front surface while accommodating simultaneous transfer of the imprinted characters to said backing sheet, and

said front preprinted sheet having a second series of supplemental data segments preprinted thereon to provide for recording of supplementary information with respect to each label segment at a location adjacent the space on the backing sheet storing character impressions with reference to the label segment,

whereby after entry of information on the prescription label segments and removal thereof from the backing sheet, the backing sheet has stored thereon at each of a succession of unified identifiable regions of the backing sheet the formatted information as entered on a label segment, and the front preprinted sheet secured to said backing sheet has the necessary supplementary data pertaining to a given prescription.