Medication packaging method and system
AssigneeCVS Pharmacy, Inc.
InventorDeborah Adler
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Abstract
A method for packaging a medication including receiving a prescription for a patient including a name of the medication for the patient and a name of the patient, wherein the patient is one of a plurality of family members. The method further comprises receiving a family member listing from the patient identifying one or more other ones of the plurality of family members, assigning a color to the patient that differs from any of one or more colors assigned to any of the other ones of the plurality of family members identified in the family member listing, and packaging the medication for delivery to the patient including securing a color-coded member to the container for the medication. The color-coded member is the color assigned to the patient.
Claims14
A method comprising:
- forming a medication container configured to receive medication, the medication container including a curved front wall, and a rear planar wall forming a shoulder, wherein the shoulder of the rear planar wall defines a slot;
- securing a label to the medication container;
- accessing a form completed by one of a plurality of family members, wherein the form identifies a different color assigned to each family member of the plurality of family members including a patient;
- prior to delivery of the medication container to the patient, disposing a color identifier on the medication container corresponding to the color assigned to the patient on the form;
- slidably and removably retaining a medication information card including information relating to the medication within the slot relative to the rear planar wall of the medication container, wherein the medication information card comprises a first portion including a prescription-related notation and wherein the medication information card and the slot are both sized and shaped so that upon full insertion of the medication information card within the slot, the first portion of the medication information card extends beyond an edge of the medication container to make visible the prescription-related notation of the first portion of the medication information card beyond the edge of the medication container.
A method comprising:
- forming a medication container configured to receive medication, the medication container including a curved front wall, and a rear planar wall forming a shoulder, wherein the shoulder of the rear planar wall defines a slot;
- securing a label to the medication container;
- accessing a form completed by one of a plurality of family members, wherein the form identifies a different color assigned to each family member of the plurality of family members including a patient;
- prior to delivery of the medication container to the patient, disposing a color identifier on the medication container corresponding to the color assigned to the patient on the form;
- slidably and removably retaining a magnifying lens within the slot relative to the rear planar wall of the medication container, wherein the magnifying lens is configured to magnify the label on the medication container, and wherein upon full insertion of the magnifying lens within the slot, the magnifying lens is retained with the medication container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.