Automated medication calendar
AssigneeMedical College of Georgia Research Institute, Inc.
InventorWillie K. GUION
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Abstract
A calendar-format medication instruction sheet is produced when a pharmacy processes a patient's prescription. The sheet can bear icons or photographic images of the medications that the patient is to take, overlayed on a calendar grid to indicate the days on which the patient is to take them, and can also bear icons or photographic images indicating how the patient is to take them. The icons, photographic images, or other graphical information can be obtained from a remote server as needed.
Claims17
A computer-implemented method for producing a calendar-format medication instruction sheet, comprising:
- detecting user interaction with a pharmacy computer prescription system;
- in response to a calendar sheet-producing system detecting user interaction with the pharmacy computer prescription system, the calendar sheet-producing system receiving prescription information from the pharmacy computer prescription system, the prescription information including information identifying one or more medications for a patient to take and when the patient is to take each medication;
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- in response to the calendar sheet-producing system detecting user interaction with the pharmacy computer prescription system, the calendar sheet-producing system producing a sheet in response to the prescription information and in response to graphical information, the sheet bearing a graphical depiction of a calendar grid comprising a plurality of calendar days and a graphical depiction within each of a plurality of the calendar days indicating on which of the calendar days to take each medication and when during each of the calendar days to take each medication.
A system for producing a calendar-format medication instruction sheet, comprising:
- a remote computer system having stored therein graphical depiction information;
- and
- a pharmacy computer system in communication with the remote computer system via a network, the pharmacy computer system having a processing system programmed with a prescription system to receive prescription information from a user and process prescriptions and programmed with a calendar sheet-producing system to detect user interaction with the prescription system and in response:
- receive the prescription information, the prescription information including information identifying one or more medications for a patient to take and when the patient is to take each medication;
- receive graphical depiction information from the remote computer system;
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- produce a sheet in response to the prescription information and graphical depiction information, the sheet bearing a graphical depiction of a calendar grid comprising a plurality of calendar days and a graphical depiction within each of a plurality of the calendar days indicating on which of the calendar days to take each medication and when during each of the calendar days to take each medication.
A computer program product for producing a calendar-format medication instruction sheet, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions for, when performed by a computer system, causing the computer system to:
- detect user interaction with a pharmacy computer prescription system;
- receive prescription information from the pharmacy computer prescription system in response to detecting user interaction with the pharmacy computer prescription system, the prescription information including information identifying one or more medications for a patient to take and when the patient is to take each medication;
- and
- produce a sheet in response to the prescription information and in response to graphical information, the sheet bearing a graphical depiction of a calendar grid comprising a plurality of calendar days and a graphical depiction within each of a plurality of the calendar days indicating on which of the calendar days to take each medication and when during each of the calendar days to take each medication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.