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Prescription order identification system

  • US 7,496,521 B1
  • Filed: 11/16/2001
  • Issued: 02/24/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for identifying a prescription order in a pharmacy including the following steps:

  • receiving the prescription order;

    tagging the prescription order with a wireless tag that travels with the prescription order thorough the pharmacy, said tag having a worker signaling device operably secured thereto and in communication with a central pharmacy computer system, said computer system correlating said prescription order with said tag;

    establishing a timing element in communication with said computer system, said timing element timing an event related to a status of said prescription order and used by the computer system to detect a predetermined criteria of said status; and

    ,activating the worker signaling device to alert a pharmacy worker when said predetermined criteria is detected by said computer system.

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