Method and System for Pay-Per-Use Prescription Validation
AssigneeAxsun Technologies, Inc.
InventorPetros Kotidis
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Abstract
A business model for facilitating the deployment of prescription validation systems into pharmacies is installed in pharmacies for little or no up-front cost to the pharmacy. Instead, the pharmacy is charged on a per use basis, that is, charged every time a prescription is validated in the system. In this way, the system vendor obtains payment on a subscription-like basis. Up-front costs at the pharmacy are avoided. Moreover, risks to a pharmacy concerning maintenance and slow productivity are avoided, or shifted onto the system owner, who is able to assess those risks.
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A method for prescription validation, comprising:
- a pharmacy validation system for performing validations by determining whether labels for containers correspond to contents of the containers;
- the validation system sending information that the validation was made to an information center;
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- the information center billing the pharmacy based on a number of validations performed by the validation system.
A method for prescription validation, comprising:
- a pharmacy validation system for analyzing contents of prescription containers by acquiring information from the contents;
- the validation system searching for a match for the contents of containers in an internal database and sending the information, including a spectroscopic response of the contents, to a drug information center if no match is found in the internal database;
- drug information center notifying the pharmacy validation system of the contents.
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