IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
US-0252947
(2005-10-18)
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등록번호 |
US-8175891
(2012-05-08)
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발명자
/ 주소 |
- Berkelhamer, Alan J.
- Selka, Gowri
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출원인 / 주소 |
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대리인 / 주소 |
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인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
1 인용 특허 :
76 |
초록
An information system and method that provides the ability to reroute portions of prescription order work between a plurality of organizational units in order to leverage capacity, expertise, or other resources to increase network efficiency.
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1. A method of managing drug prescription orders within a network of pharmacy resources including a plurality of pharmacy locations having a least one employee that are connected by an information processing system, the method comprising: creating an original order data (OOD) object containing a set
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A method of managing drug prescription orders within a network of pharmacy resources including a plurality of pharmacy locations having a least one employee that are connected by an information processing system, the method comprising: creating an original order data (OOD) object containing a set of information received from a customer during placement of a compound drug prescription order;creating a task object at a first network computer at a first pharmacy location, wherein the task object is associated with the OOD object, wherein the task object stores work associated with the OOD object and the task object is used to carry and save work performed on the prescription order;identifying by the first network computer an equipment type needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order;identifying by the first network computer base components needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order;identifying by the first network computer an expertise needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order;determining by the first network computer a second pharmacy location geographically separate from the first pharmacy location for making the compound drug based on the identified equipment type, the identified base components needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order and the identified expertise needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order;electronically routing the task object from a first queue stored on the first network computer at the first pharmacy location to a second queue stored on a second network computer at the determined second pharmacy location and wherein the first and second network computers are associated with a first and a second pharmacy resource, respectively;making the compound drug specified in the compound drug prescription order; anddispensing the compound drug prescription order to the customer at the second retail pharmacy location. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the equipment capacity is based on at least one of the existence and availability of a set of equipment at a pharmacy resource to process a compound drug prescription. 3. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a set of pharmacy resources having equipment capacity to process compound drugs. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein determining a set of pharmacy resources having equipment capacity to process compound drugs comprises: communicating with a pharmacy network database containing a table of pharmacy resources and compound equipment availability and a current configuration of the compound equipment. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the set of pharmacy resources having a threshold level of equipment capacity are designated as compound centers. 6. The method of claim 1, further comprising routing at least one of the task object and OOD object to a third queue associated with a mail function. 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the mail function initiates a delivery of the filled compound prescription to a customer location. 8. The method of claim 7, wherein the customer location is a retail store where the prescription order originated. 9. The method of claim 1, wherein the equipment indicator indicates a pet medication prescription order. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the equipment capacity is based on at least one of the existence and availability of a set of equipment at a pharmacy resource to process a pet medication prescription. 11. A compound drug pharmacy workflow system comprising: a computer system using computer executable code stored on one or more computer-readable memories, the system including: an image object associated with a prescription order specifying a compound drug;a task object associated with the image object and the prescription order, wherein the task object stores work associated with the image object and the task object includes work performed on the prescription order and further comprises an equipment type parameter indicating an equipment type needed to make the compound drug, base components needed to make the compound drug specified in the compound drug prescription order and an expertise needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order;a first workflow manager to determine, cooperative with the task object, a first set of pharmacy network facilities having the equipment type, the base components and the expertise needed to process the compound drug prescription from a plurality of pharmacy network facilities, each pharmacy network facility geographically separate from each other, and wherein the workflow manager is configured to route the task object and, optionally, the image object to a queue at one of the first set of pharmacy network facilities; anda specialty compound drug equipment corresponding to the needed equipment type and configured to mix the base ingredients to make the compound drug specified in the compound drug prescription order. 12. The system of claim 11, wherein the equipment capacity is based on both the existence and availability of compound drug equipment at the pharmacy network facility. 13. The system of claim 12, wherein the workflow manager further determines a second set of pharmacy network facilities matching a selection criteria, wherein the second set is a subset of the first set of pharmacy network facilities. 14. The system of claim 13, wherein the selection criteria comprises each of a pharmacy resource workload, a proximity to a pharmacy resource, and a customer pickup preference. 15. The system of claim 14, wherein the workflow manager executes a display function on a first network computer, wherein the display function lists the second set of pharmacy network facilities. 16. The system of claim 15, wherein the function lists the first set of pharmacy network facilities when a parameter is set by the first network computer in response to a customer inquiry. 17. The system of claim 11, wherein the first set of pharmacy resources are a set of retail pharmacy locations, each of the set of retail pharmacy locations having a computer system participating in the compound drug pharmacy workflow system, with at least one retail pharmacy location of the set having a unique configuration of drug processing equipment. 18. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions for providing a compound drug prescription order workflow, comprising: a first program that receives original order data and creates an original order data object;a second program that creates a task object, the task object including i) a specialty equipment indicator that identifies an equipment type required to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order, ii) a determination of base ingredients needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order and iii) a determination of an expertise needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order, wherein the second program associates the task object with the original order data object, and wherein the second program stores work associated with the original order data, and includes work performed in the task object;a third program that identifies the specialty equipment indicator associated with the task object; anda fourth program that routes the task object and one of the original order data object and a reference to the original order data object from a queue associated with a first network computer at a first pharmacy location to a queue associated with a second network computer at a second pharmacy location geographically separate from the first pharmacy location, based on the specialty equipment indicator, the determined two or more base ingredients needed to make the compound drug specified in the compound drug prescription order and the determined expertise needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order incorporated in the task object.
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