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US 2007/0164096 A1Published application
Pharmacy network computer system and printer
AssigneeCatalina Marketing Corporation
InventorsSimon Banfield, Baxter Byerly, Daniel Schutte
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Abstract
The invention provides a network computer system and novel pharmacy printers and their methods of use wherein the local CS includes a pharmacy printer for printing pharmacy orders including prescriptions, and the pharmacy printer includes a pharmacy printer database storing drug information and association of a drug identifier with information about a corresponding drug, and additional information, and obtains and uses instructions for printing the additional information in association with printing of a prescription label from characters contained in a prescription label print file for the prescription label.
Claims37
A network CS, comprising:
- a pharmacy printer located in a pharmacy store wherein said pharmacy printer stores therein a database including at least one of drug monograph and MedGuide content;
- wherein said pharmacy printer is configured to parse, from a prescription label print file for a prescription, data identifying a specified drug monograph and a specified MedGuide stored by said printer in said database,
- wherein said pharmacy printer is configured to retrieve said specified drug monograph and said specified MedGuide from said database;
- wherein said pharmacy printer is configured to generate a prescription label print job including prescription label information specified by said prescription label printer file, said specified drug monograph, and said specified MedGuide.
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A network CS, comprising:
- a pharmacy printer located in a pharmacy store wherein said pharmacy printer stores therein a database including CHR content;
- wherein said database comprises a CHR/CID content table;
- wherein said pharmacy printer is further configured to parse out of a prescription label printer file for a prescription a CID associated with said prescription;
- wherein said pharmacy printer is further configured retrieve from said CHR/CID content table, at least one CHR/CID content record associated with said CID associated with said prescription;
- wherein said pharmacy printer is configured to generate a prescription label print job including a prescription label information specified by said prescription label printer file, and said at least one CHR/CID content record.
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A method for using a network CS, comprising:
- storing CHR content in a database in a pharmacy printer located in a pharmacy store;
- wherein said database comprises a CHR/CID content table;
- parsing, in said pharmacy printer, out of a prescription label printer file for a prescription, a CID associated with said prescription;
- retrieving, in said pharmacy printer, from said CHR/CID content table, at least one CHR/CID content record associated with said CID associated with said prescription;
- generating, in said pharmacy printer, a prescription label print job including a prescription label information specified by said prescription label printer file and said at least one CHR/CID content record.
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A method of using network CS for printing prescription labels and information comprising:
- locating a pharmacy printer in a pharmacy store;
- storing in said pharmacy printer a database including drug monographs in association with NDCs and MedGuides in association with DCCs;
- configuring said pharmacy printer to parse out of a prescription label print file data identifying a specified drug monograph and a specified MedGuide stored by said printer in said database;
- configuring said pharmacy printer to retrieve said specified drug monograph and said specified MedGuide from said database, generate a prescription label print job including a prescription label information specified by said prescription label printer file, said specified drug monograph, and said specified MedGuide.
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A network computer system, comprising:
- (1) a central CS;
- (2) a plurality of local CSs;
- wherein said central CS and said plurality of local CSs form a network in which said plurality of local CS and said central CS can communicate with one another via network protocols;
- wherein each local CS of said plurality of local CSs is associated with and proximate to a corresponding plurality of pharmacy stores, wherein each local CS of said plurality of local CSs includes a CS terminal for inputting information about pharmacy orders and a pharmacy printer for printing information relating to said pharmacy orders;
- wherein each local CS of said plurality of local CSs is designed to log information about pharmacy orders including information about medicines contained in pharmacy orders;
- wherein a first local CS of said plurality of local CSs includes a first pharmacy printer located in a first pharmacy store and a first pharmacy POS located in said first pharmacy store;
- wherein said first pharmacy printer includes a first pharmacy printer database storing:
- (1) medicine records including in each medicine record a medicine identifier in association with information about the corresponding medicine;
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- (2) consumer records including in each consumer record a consumer identifier in association with CHR content to be conveyed to the consumer associated with said consumer identifier;
- wherein said pharmacy printer is configured to receive and process print instructions resulting from a pharmacy order containing a specified prescription for a specified medicine having a specified medicine identifier and a specified consumer identifier for a specified consumer, by:
- (1) searching in said first pharmacy printer database for information about said specified medicine associated with said specified medicine identifier;
- (2) searching in said first pharmacy printer database for information to be conveyed to said specified consumer associated with said specified consumer identifier;
- (3) printing in association with one another said specified prescription, said information about said specified medicine, and said information to be conveyed to said specified consumer.
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A method of using a network computer system, comprising:
- (1) providing a central CS;
- (2) providing a plurality of local CSs;
- wherein said central CS and said plurality of local CSs form a network in which said plurality of local CS and said central CS can communicate with one another via network protocols;
- wherein each local CS of said plurality of local CSs is associated with and proximate to a corresponding plurality of pharmacy stores, wherein each local CS of said plurality of local CSs includes a CS terminal for inputting information about pharmacy orders and a pharmacy printer for printing information relating to said pharmacy orders;
- wherein a first local CS of said plurality of local CSs includes a first pharmacy printer located in a first pharmacy store and a first pharmacy POS located in said first pharmacy store;
- including in said first pharmacy printer a first pharmacy printer database storing:
- (1) medicine records including in each medicine record a medicine identifier in association with information about the corresponding medicine;
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- (2) consumer records including in each consumer record a consumer identifier in association with CHR content to be conveyed to the consumer associated with said consumer identifier;
- configuring said pharmacy printer to receive and process print instructions resulting from a pharmacy order containing a specified prescription for a specified medicine having a specified medicine identifier and a specified consumer identifier for a specified consumer, by:
- (1) searching in said first pharmacy printer database for information about said specified medicine associated with said specified medicine identifier;
- (2) searching in said first pharmacy printer database for additional information to be conveyed to said specified consumer associated with said specified consumer identifier;
- (3) printing in association with one another said specified prescription, said information about said specified medicine, and said additional information to be conveyed to said specified consumer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.