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OwnerShelton Louie, Joseph Intile +1inventors
InventorsShelton Louie, Joseph Intile, Stephen A. Garrett
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An automated tracking system for a pharmacy that maintains each medication's Unique Drug Identifier (“UDI”) information from the stock supply container to individual prescriptions filled therefrom. The UDI information automatically travels with each individual prescription until it is dispensed to a customer or patient, thereby allowing the medication contained therein to be returned to stock without risk of losing key information about the medication such as its expiration date and the like. In disclosed embodiments, the computer system can monitor key UDI information of the stock supply containers and the individual filled prescriptions to promote use of medications expiring sooner than others in the pharmacy, locate, track and promote use of returned to stock medications that have not been returned to the supply containers, and prevent the dispensing of expired or about to expire medications.
A pharmacy prescription order filing system comprising:
The pharmacy prescription order filling system of claim 6, wherein the computer system prevents the dispensing of the prescription order to a customer or patient past the configurable date.
The pharmacy prescription order filling system of claim 8, wherein in the configurable date is earlier than the expiration date of the UDI for the medication contained in the supply container from which the individual prescriptions medication was drawn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.