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Adaptive pharmaceutical product management methods and system

  • US 8,165,929 B2
  • Filed: 08/04/2008
  • Issued: 04/24/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for adaptive storage of pharmaceutical products within a pharmacy at plural pharmaceutical product storage locations having rankings based on relative ease-of-accessibility to a pharmacy workstation so that more frequently used products are more easily accessible to a human user working from the pharmacy workstation based on updated product usage frequency rankings, the method comprising:

  • placing plural pharmaceutical product containers into storage locations each having an ease-of-accessibility ranking, there being an excess of storage locations to permit adaptive placement of containers into the storage locations;

    creating with a processing device a database record of the storage location of each container;

    automatically visually indicating the storage location of a container for a pharmaceutical product required for prescription fulfillment with a visible indicator proximate the storage location which guides the user to the storage location;

    picking the container from the indicated storage location;

    fulfilling the prescription at the workstation with product from the container;

    updating with the processing device the database to indicate use of the product;

    determining with the processing device a usage frequency ranking of the product;

    determining with the processing device an updated storage location for the container if product remains in the container or for a further container of the product based on the usage frequency ranking of the product, the updated storage location having an ease-of-accessibility ranking commensurate with the usage frequency ranking of the product;

    automatically visually indicating the updated storage location with a visible indicator proximate the updated storage location which guides the user to the updated storage location; and

    placing the container at the indicated updated storage location.

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