Secure medical prescription
OwnerRodolfo Cardenas, Vivek S. Adeshinventors
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Abstract
A medical prescription in which the physician's DEA number is in an encrypted format or code such as an encrypted bar code, and a method and system for securely placing a physician's DEA number in an encrypted format on a medical prescription.
Claims49
A method for producing secure medical prescription comprising the steps of converting the physician's DEA number into an encrypted code for placement onto the medical prescription.
A method for producing a secure medical prescription having a physician's encrypted DEA number, comprising the steps of:
- a. accessing a device capable of storing the encrypted DEA number;
- and
- b. printing the encrypted DEA number onto a substrate for use as or in connection with a medical prescription
A method for producing a secure medical prescription having a physician's DEA number encrypted and located thereon, comprising the steps of:
- a. logging onto a computer using a secure logon including a used identification and a password;
- b. inputting patient data into a patient database on the computer or retrieving patient data from the patient database on the computer;
- c. inputting or retrieving information regarding a drug intended to prescribed;
- d. encrypting a prescribing physician's DEA number into an encrypted code;
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- e. printing a medical prescription onto medical prescription paper or other appropriate paper with the encrypted DEA number.
A system for preparing a medical prescription with a physician's DEA number encrypted thereon comprising:
- a. a computer comprising a physician database comprising physician DEA numbers;
- b. means for converting the physician DEA numbers into an encrypted code;
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- c. means for affixing the encrypted code onto a substrate, wherein the substrate is selected from the group consisting of medical prescriptions, medical prescription paper, and substrates capable of being attached to medical prescriptions or medical prescription paper.
40 The system as claimed in claim 34, further comprising a patient database and a drug database.
The system as claimed in claim 40, wherein the encrypted code is readable by a code reader equipped with decryption means incorporated into prescription filling methods.
A process for preparing secure medical prescriptions by providing a computer based medical prescription writing program, allowing the secure access to the medical prescription writing program, entering a medical prescription into the medical prescription writing program, and associating a specific physician with a database file comprising the specific physician's DEA number, the improvement comprising the steps of:
- a. converting the specific physician's DEA number into an encrypted code;
- and
- b. printing out the encrypted code for use on the medical prescription.
A medical prescription comprising a physician's DEA number in an encrypted format.
The medical prescription as claimed in claim 40, wherein the encrypted format does not reveal the physician's DEA number without the use of decryption means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.