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Method for validating a dispensed pharmaceutical

  • US 7,317,525 B2
  • Filed: 12/21/2005
  • Issued: 01/08/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for verifying that a prescribed pharmaceutical is dispensed in accordance with a prescription, comprisingcounting tablets of a dispensed pharmaceutical so as to determine whether a quantity of the tablets is in accord with the prescription;

  • obtaining spectral data for the dispensed pharmaceutical, the dispensed pharmaceutical being dispensed in a customer container;

    scanning the customer container for data that is affixed to the customer container, the data linking the customer container with identifying information stored in a pharmacy information system, wherein the identifying information includes information associated with the prescribed pharmaceutical;

    utilizing the spectral data in connection with the identifying information for the prescribed pharmaceutical to determine whether the dispensed pharmaceutical is the prescribed pharmaceutical; and

    providing an output indicative of whether the dispensed pharmaceutical is the prescribed pharmaceutical.

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