System and software of enhanced pharmaceutical operations in long-term care facilities and related methods
IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G06Q-010/00
출원번호
US-0454624
(2012-04-24)
등록번호
US-8489425
(2013-07-16)
발명자
/ 주소
Moncrief, James W.
Martins, James J.
출원인 / 주소
Tech Pharmacy Services, Inc.
대리인 / 주소
Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP
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초록▼
A system, software and related methods of enhanced pharmaceutical operations in long term care facilities are provided. An embodiment of a system includes a long-term care facility pharmacy group management server, long-term care facility pharmacy management software associated with the long-term ca
A system, software and related methods of enhanced pharmaceutical operations in long term care facilities are provided. An embodiment of a system includes a long-term care facility pharmacy group management server, long-term care facility pharmacy management software associated with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server to manage pharmacological operations in a plurality of long-term care facilities, a plurality of pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts each positioned in a long-term care facility remote from the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server and in communication therewith, a remote pharmacy group server in communication with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server, and a plurality of pharmaceutical prescription document processors each positioned in a long-term care facility and in communication with the remote pharmacy group server or the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server.
대표청구항▼
1. A method of restructuring long-term care facility staff procedures for communication between one or more long-term care facility staff members, each located at one of a plurality of long-term care facilities, and a long-term care facility remote pharmacy positioned remote from the plurality of lo
1. A method of restructuring long-term care facility staff procedures for communication between one or more long-term care facility staff members, each located at one of a plurality of long-term care facilities, and a long-term care facility remote pharmacy positioned remote from the plurality of long-term care facilities, the method comprising the steps of: installing one or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts at each of the plurality of long-term care facilities operable by the one or more long-term care facility staff members, each of the at least one pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts being positioned remote from, and adapted to be in communication with, a long-term care facility pharmacy management server via a communications network, the long-term care facility pharmacy management server including non-transitory, tangible memory medium to store long-term care facility management computer programs including a patient prescription receiver to receive a digital image of a patient medication prescription order, a medication dispensing apparatus administrator to selectively remote control one or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing cart functions, and a drug conflict analyzer to determine whether drug conflict exists;installing one or more pharmaceutical prescription document processors at each of the plurality of long-term care facilities to transmit digital images of patient medication prescription orders to the long-term care facility pharmacy management server via the communications network, each of the one or more pharmaceutical prescription document processors being adapted to be in communication with one of the at least one pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts;verifying, in near-real time at the long-term care facility remote pharmacy, the digital images of patient medication prescription orders transmitted to the long-term care facility pharmacy management server via the communications network to thereby reduce drug conflicts;initiating, by the long-term care facility pharmacy management server via the communications network, near-real-time patient medication dispensing at the one pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts responsive to the near-real time verification of the digital images of patient medication prescription orders at the long-term care facility remote pharmacy;packaging, by the one or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts at each of the plurality of long-term care facilities, one or more medications into one or more disposable individual patient dosing packages, responsive to initiating patient medication dispensing by the long-term care facility pharmacy management server via the communications network;enhancing reduction of wasted medication by establishing an automated therapeutic exchange protocol that facilitates management of the medication procurement and resident medication distribution procedures by the one or more long-term care facility staff members and one or more long-term care facility remote pharmacy personnel via the communications network; andenhancing reduction of medication order errors by verifying, at the long-term care facility remote pharmacy, via the patient prescription receiver, the digital image of a patient medication prescription order from a pharmaceutical prescription document processor adapted to be in communication with one of the at least one pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts. 2. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein the long-term care facility management computer programs further includes a patient billing tracker to provide separate billing records for each of the plurality of long-term care facility patients and a claims processor to consolidate billing data for each of the plurality of long-term care facility patients; andwherein the method further includes the steps of: dispensing the one or more of disposable individual patient dosing packages to a plurality of long-term care facility patents located at each of the plurality of long-term care facilities by use of the one or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts installed at each of the plurality of long-term care facilities responsive to initiating patient medication dispensing by the long-term care facility pharmacy management server via the communications network,providing, via the patient billing tracker, separate billing records for each of the plurality of long-term care facility patients located at each of the plurality of long-term care facilities responsive to dispensing the plurality of disposable individual patient dosing packages to the plurality of long-term care facility patients, andconsolidating billing data for each of the plurality of long-term care facility patients via the claims processor; the billing data being indexed by reimbursement provider. 3. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein the long-term care facility management computer programs further includes an inventory tracker to maintain an inventory for each of the at least one pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts and an inventory replenisher to notify one or more of the one or more long-term care facility remote pharmacy personnel when the medication inventory for one of the one or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts decreases below a preselected minimum threshold level; andwherein the method further includes the steps of maintaining a medication inventory for each of the at least one pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts at each of the plurality of long-term care facilities, andnotifying at least one of the one or more long-term care facility remote pharmacy personnel when the medication inventory for one of the at least one pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing carts decreases below the preselected minimum threshold level.
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