WO2000028474A1 - Medicament dispensing station - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the field of prescription dispensing systems.
- One source of error is that the incorrect supply container is used for filling the prescription.
- Another source of error is that the labels for two different prescriptions may be switched inadvertently. When this occurs, two patients receive one another's prescription.
- the patient may not be familiar with the medicament's appearance.
- the prescription package contains the wrong medicament, the patient is unaware of this because the patient does not know what the appearance of the proper medicament should be and, therefore, the patient takes the medicament anyway.
- the problem may be compounded if the prescription label is printed in a language that the patient does not understand. That is, the label may be printed in a language that the patient cannot read.
- auxiliary information such as conditions, warnings, and specific instructions for use, pertinent to the medicament.
- the present invention solves the prior art problems discussed above and provides a distinct advance in the state of the art. More particularly,
- the medicament dispensing station hereof verifies that the correct supply container has been accessed for filling the prescription, provides medicament indicia on the prescription label representative of a physical attribute of the medicament, and enables the printing of prescription data on a prescription label in a selected second language.
- the preferred medicament dispensing apparatus includes a computer with a bar code reader and a printer coupled therewith.
- the bar code reader scans the bar code on the container and a computer compares the bar code data with prescription data to determine a match before activating the printer to print a prescription label for the prescription.
- the preferred apparatus also includes an attribute database and a language translation database.
- the computer activates the printer to print medicament indicia on the prescription label representative of a physical attribute of the medicament including a word description and also an image.
- the computer is also operable to prompt the printer to print prescription data in a second language.
- the computer is also operable to print the auxiliary information pertinent to the medicament on the prescription label.
- Other preferred aspects of the present invention are disclosed herein.
- Figure 1 is a schematic representation of the preferred medicament dispensing apparatus in accordance with the present invention, shown in use with a medicine vial and a supply container;
- Fig. 2 is a representation of a prescription label printed by the apparatus of Fig.1.
- Figure 1 illustrates preferred medicament dispensing apparatus 10 in accordance with the present invention.
- Apparatus 10 is shown in use with supply container 12 and a prescription package to be dispensed to the patient such as a medicine vial, box, jar, bottle or other package as represented by medicine vial 14.
- a medicine vial such as a medicine vial, box, jar, bottle or other package as represented by medicine vial 14.
- Apparatus 10 includes computer 16 coupled with an indicia- reading device such as bar code reader 18 and prescription label printer 20, and further includes conventional monitor 22 and keyboard 24.
- Computer 16 is preferably a conventional personal computer operated as a special purpose computer in accordance with the present invention but could also include a mainframe computer, mini-computer, or a computer network operable to run a wide variety of applications for a pharmacy.
- Computer 16 is also operable to access a plurality of databases represented by databases 26 in Fig. 1. These databases include a prescription database, an attribute database, a medicament database and a language translation database.
- databases 26 may be stored locally such as on the hard drive of computer 16 or may be stored remotely such as on a server computer or central pharmacy computer.
- Supply container 12 is a large bottle such as that used for storing large quantities of medicaments in bulk but could also be some other unit of use package such as a box containing a bottle of insulin.
- Container 12 includes container indicia such as bar code 28 thereon identifying the medicament contained therein, such as a pill, capsule, tablet, caplet, liquid, cream, inhaler, patch, syringe or drug in reconstitutableform, including the type of medicine and the strength. It will be appreciated that the container indicia could include other markings such as alphanumeric printing, or could be in other forms such as a magnetic strip or magnetic ink.
- Printer 20 is preferably an industrial quality, thermal transfer printer but could also be the type of conventional printer commonly used in pharmacies for printing prescription labels and, in the present invention, is operable to print prescription label 30 for application to vial 14.
- a prescription is entered into computer 16 and stored as prescription data.
- Computer 16 accesses the prescription database and retrieves prescription data corresponding to the prescription being filled.
- This prescription data includes medicament data identifying the prescription medicament.
- the prescription may be entered locally using keyboard 24 or may have been entered at a different location such as an incoming order station.
- the pharmacist or pharmacy technician When a prescription is ready for filling, the pharmacist or pharmacy technician prompts computer 16 to retrieve the prescription data and display selected data on monitor 22. This includes the location of the medicament supply from the medicament database. Also, computer 16 accesses the attribute database and displays an image of the medicament and, optionally, a word description of the medicament as well. This serves as an aid to ensure that the correct medicament is retrieved from supply.
- the pharmacist or pharmacy technician uses bar code reader 18 to read bar code 28 which provides container data representative thereof to computer 16.
- bar code 28 is a UPC code corresponding to the national drug code (NDC) number or the drug identification number (DIN), for example.
- NDC national drug code
- DIN drug identification number
- computer 16 converts the UPC to the NDC number or DIN number using the medicament database. If the bar code is scratched or otherwise unreadable, or absent, the NDC number or DIN number printed on the container can be entered manually by way of keyboard 24.
- Computer 16 compares the container data (NDC number or DIN number) with the prescription data including the medicament data to determine a match therebetween. If there is no match, computer 16 displays an alert notation on monitor 22 as an indicator to the pharmacist or pharmacy technician that container 12 may be the wrong container for the prescribed medicament. Without a match, computer 16 also prevents the printing of prescription label 30. In this way, a source of error is eliminated. That is, the present invention eliminates that type of error in which the incorrect supply container is retrieved from storage and used to fill a prescription. This includes that kind of error where the type of medicine is correct but is not the prescribed strength. If there is a match, computer 16 activates printer 20 to print prescription label 30.
- the information on label 30 includes the standard information required for any prescription drug label but also includes word description 32, image 34 and auxiliary information 36.
- computer 16 activates printer 20 to print prescription label 30 with medicament indicia thereon representative of at least one physical attribute of the medicament.
- the medicament indicia includes a word description 32 of the medicament.
- label 30 include both types of medicament indicia 32, 34, but some circumstances may indicate the printing of only one.
- the preferred word description includes five fields: shape, color pattern, color, scoring and the form of the medicament. In the example of Fig. 2, these fields are round, solid (i.e., uniform color), white, no scoring and tab (tablet). If these words do not describe the medicament contained in the prescription package, the patient can identify this lack of a match. This may prevent the patient from taking the wrong medicament, or from not taking the correct medicament.
- the preferred medicament indicia also includes an image 34 of the medicament.
- Some types of medicaments may require two images. For example, a tablet with opposed faces would be represented by two images, one for each face.
- the attribute database includes data representative of the physical attributes described above (image 34 and word description 32) for a wide variety of medicaments.
- the attribute database stores attribute data for all the medicaments that may be dispensed by the pharmacy.
- the printing of medicament indicia on prescription label 30 may prevent the adverse consequences that occur when the prescription package contains a medicament other than one set forth in the prescription. That is, the word description or image of the medicament on the label may alert the patient that an error has occurred and thereby prompt the patient to have the error corrected.
- Label 30 also includes auxiliary information 36 such as a caution "avoid alcoholic beverages," a warning "may be habit forming,” and a representative symbol.
- auxiliary information 36 such as a caution "avoid alcoholic beverages," a warning "may be habit forming,” and a representative symbol.
- a pharmacist or pharmacy technician must take the special step of determining what auxiliary information should be placed on the prescription label and then retrieve and apply corresponding pressure sensitive stickers to the prescription package. This is another source of potential error.
- the present invention includes the appropriate auxiliary information in the medicament database. Computer 16 retrieves this information and prompts the printing thereof on label 30. This avoids a potential error in which the pharmacist or pharmacy technician forgets to apply the auxiliary information stickers or applies the wrong stickers.
- Apparatus 10 also enables the prescription label 30 to be printed in a second language.
- the prescription data that is entered into computer 16 also includes a pointer or other indication as to whether the patient requests the printing of prescription data in a second language other than the default language, such as English. If such is the case, computer 16 accesses the language translation database for language data corresponding to the second language equivalent (translation) of the prescription data. Computer 16 then supplies this language data to printer 20 and activates printer 20 to print the prescription data in the second language on prescription label 30.
- computer 16 could activate printer 20 to print an additional label in the second language instead of printing the prescription label in the second language.
- printer 20 could activate printer 20 to print an additional label in the second language instead of printing the prescription label in the second language.
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