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Distribution of infusion pumps

  • US 9,141,765 B2
  • Filed: 09/20/2013
  • Issued: 09/22/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing a medicine infusion pump device, comprising:

  • storing multiple infusion pump devices in a pharmacy inventory while also storing prefilled medicine cartridges in the pharmacy inventory, each of the prefilled medicine cartridges being sealed by a pierceable septum and being external to the infusion pump devices when stored in the pharmacy inventory, each of the infusion pump devices including a cap device configured to seal an external opening of a respective infusion pump device and configured to pierce the septum of a respective prefilled medicine cartridge after the respective prefilled medicine cartridge is slidably inserted through said external opening; and

    in response to a request for a pharmacy to provide at least infusion pumps for an individual user, contemporaneously distributing from the pharmacy a set of said infusion pump devices in a predetermined quantity along with the same predetermined quantity of said prefilled medicine cartridges from the pharmacy inventory and a plurality of infusion sets attachable to said cap devices of the infusion pump devices, wherein the prefilled medicine cartridges are external to the infusion pump devices when the infusion pump devices are distributed to the individual user.

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