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System and method for reception, analysis, and annotation of prescription data

  • US 8,682,042 B1
  • Filed: 02/13/2007
  • Issued: 03/25/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • (a) displaying through at least one display screen of a pharmacy workstation, an image of a first prescription received from a medication order system,wherein the first prescription is for a first patient from among a plurality of patients for which patient data is stored in a data store of a pharmacy system,wherein the pharmacy system is distinct from the medication order system,wherein the workstation includes at least one processor,wherein the workstation is operable to communicate with the pharmacy system and the medication order system,(b) displaying through the at least one display screen, first patient data accessed from a data store of the pharmacy system,wherein the first patient data corresponds to the first patient;

    (c) operating the workstation to perform through application of definition data included in at least one schema, computer analysis of the first patient data,wherein the definition data defines a plurality of zones corresponding to different screen areas of the first patient data displayed in the at least one display screen,wherein a first zone of the plurality of zones corresponds to a first screen area of the first patient data,wherein the first screen area includes a name of the first patient,wherein at least one other zone of the plurality of zones corresponds to at least one other screen area of the first patient data,wherein the at least one other screen area includes at least one of;

    a record number, first patient gender, a visit number, or a person having a relationship to the first patient;

    (d) operating the workstation to automatically resolve first patient text data from the analysis performed in (c),wherein the first patient text data includes data corresponding to the name of the first patient,wherein the first patient text data includes data corresponding to at least one of;

    a record number, first patient gender, a visit number, or a person having a relationship to the first patient; and

    (e) operating the workstation to cause first patient text data resolved in (d) to be stored in at least one data store of the medication order system, in correlated relation with image data corresponding to the image of the first prescription,wherein the first patient text data is stored as searchable data in a record corresponding to the first patient,wherein the correlated relation enables the image of the first prescription to be accessed from the medication order system based at least in part on a search of the name of the first patient;

    wherein (a)-(e) are performed without manual input to the workstation of;

    the image of the first prescription, ora record number, first patient gender, a visit number, or a person having a relationship to the first patient.

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