Storage system for pharmacy
OwnerShelton Louie, Stephen A. Garrettinventors
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Abstract
A storage system for a pharmacy that has a frame containing a frame with a plurality of storage carriers detachably suspended therefrom. The carriers are sized to receive filled prescription orders and the like and include individual identifiers that facilitate locating the carriers at a specific location on the frame. Preferably, the storage system includes a tracking system that detects, monitors, and displays to a worker the location of the storage carrier containing a particular customer's prescription order, thereby providing easy retrieval of the customer's prescription order.
Claims7
A method of manufacturing a storage system, comprising:
- providing a computer system;
- assembling a storage device in communication with the computer system, wherein the storage device includes:
- a frame;
- a storage carrier detachably securable to a location on the frame, the storage carrier having a mounting portion for being detachably secured to the frame and a receptacle portion, the location being selected by a pharmacy worker from any available location within the frame by the pharmacy worker detachably securing the mounting portion to the location to define a worker-selected location;
- a filled prescription order received manually within the receptacle portion of is the storage carrier, the filled prescription order associated with a customer of the pharmacy;
- a computer-readable identification tag secured to the storage carrier, the tag having a unique tag identifier associated with the storage carrier;
- electronically coupling a tag reader with the computer system, wherein the tag reader detects the computer-readable identification tag when the mounting portion of the storage carrier is positioned on the frame;
- wherein the computer system automatically correlates the filled prescription order with the worker-selected location near which the storage carrier is manually placed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.