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Centralized sterile drug products distribution and automated management of sterile compounding stations

  • US 8,140,351 B2
  • Filed: 05/23/2007
  • Issued: 03/20/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for centrally managing dose order preparation, comprising the steps of:

  • (a) retrieving at a monitoring computer a first dose order record, the first dose order record having an unprocessed status;

    (b) selecting a workstation from among a set of workstations, at least one being an automated workstation, to handle the first dose order record;

    (c) forwarding the first dose order record to the automated workstation for conversion into a drug dosage form and for preparation of a dose;

    (d) receiving at the monitoring computer from the selected workstation a processed-order status indication;

    (e) updating the first dose order record to the processed-order status, wherein the updating step includes updating a location of the drug dosage form;

    (f) comparing the first dose order record with the prepared dose; and

    (g) based on a rejection of the prepared dose, updating the first dose order record as being rejected and generating a second dose order record having an unprocessed status; and

    (h) repeating steps (a) to (g);

    wherein the second dose order record indicates that it is a re-order of the first dose order record and includes a link to the first dose order record.

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