Chaotic storage of prescription medications
AssigneeSupporting Initiatives To Redistribute Unused Medicine (Sirum)
InventorsAdam S. KIRCHER, Kiah J. WILLIAMS, George J. WANG
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Abstract
Provided herein, inter alia, are methods for storing, dispensing, and/or dispositioning pharmaceutical medication(s). These methods use, e.g., location identifiers that identify the location of pharmaceutical medications in an inventory, which allows the storage of medications in the inventory using non-alphabetical ordering, as is the typical method for organizing a pharmacy inventory. This provides, e.g., a more flexible and efficient pharmaceutical inventory that can be accessed with improved safety and reduced opportunities to introduce errors in the dispensing and storage of pharmaceutical medications.
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A method for storing at least a portion of a pharmaceutical medication in an inventory, comprising:
- (a) receiving a pharmaceutical medication;
- (b) at an electronic device with a processor and memory, inputting data related to the pharmaceutical medication, wherein the data identify:
- (1) name and quantity of at least a portion of the pharmaceutical medication, and
- (2) a location for at least a portion of the pharmaceutical medication in an inventory, wherein the ordering of pharmaceutical medications in the inventory is not alphabetical by pharmaceutical medication name;
- (c) creating a record associated with at least a portion of the pharmaceutical medication in the memory of the electronic device, wherein the record identifies the name and quantity of the portion of the pharmaceutical medication and the location for the portion of the pharmaceutical medication in the inventory;
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- (d) storing the portion of the pharmaceutical medication at the location in the inventory.
A method for dispensing a portion of one or more pharmaceutical medications, comprising:
- (a) receiving an order for one or more pharmaceutical medications, wherein the order indicates a name and a quantity for each of the one or more pharmaceutical medications;
- (b) at an electronic device with a processor and memory, inputting data related to at least a portion of the one or more pharmaceutical medications, wherein the data identify the name and quantity for the portion of the one or more pharmaceutical medications;
- (c) receiving a location identifier for at least a portion of the one or more pharmaceutical medications from the electronic device, wherein the location identifier identifies a location of the portion of the one or more pharmaceutical medications in an inventory, and wherein the ordering of pharmaceutical medications in the inventory is not alphabetical by pharmaceutical medication name;
- (d) retrieving at least a portion of the one or more pharmaceutical medications from the inventory based on the location identifier(s);
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- (e) dispensing at least a portion of the one or more pharmaceutical medications retrieved in (d) based on the received order.
A method for dispositioning at least a portion of one or more pharmaceutical medications, comprising:
- (a) at an electronic device with a processor and memory, inputting data identifying one or more of:
- an expiration date for one or more pharmaceutical medications and a name for one or more pharmaceutical medications;
- (b) receiving from the electronic device a location identifier for at least a portion of the one or more pharmaceutical medications, wherein the location identifier identifies a location of at least a portion of the one or more pharmaceutical medications in an inventory, and wherein the ordering of pharmaceutical medications in the inventory is not alphabetical by pharmaceutical medication name;
- (c) retrieving at least a portion of the one or more pharmaceutical medications from the inventory based on the location identifier;
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- (d) dispositioning at least a portion of the one or more pharmaceutical medications retrieved in (c).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.