Patent ID: 9710609
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: B65B,G06Q,G16H

Claim:
1. A system to facilitate enhanced use of two or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines for use with two or more corresponding long-term care facilities when in communication with a communications network and one or more remote long-term care facility pharmacy management servers, the system comprising: two or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines each one being positioned at one of two or more corresponding long-term care facilities, each of the two or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines also being positioned to package medications stored in each of the two or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines into a plurality of disposable patient dosing packages, each of the two or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines also being positioned remote from, and adapted to be in electronic communication with, one or more long-term care facility pharmacy management servers associated with a long-term care facility remote pharmacy via a communications network, each of the plurality of long-team care facilities remote from the long-term care facility remote pharmacy, the one or more long-term care facility pharmacy management servers including non-transitory, tangible memory medium to store long-term care facility management computer programs, the long-term care facility management computer programs including: a patient prescription receiver to receive one or more patient medication prescription orders, and a medication dispensing computer program to selectively remote control functional operations of the two or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines; the long-term care facility management computer programs also being configured and operable to: verify, at the long-term care facility remote pharmacy, the one or more patient medication prescription orders when positioned in communication with the two or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines; compare the one or more patient medication prescription orders with one or more of a patient medication profile, a patient diagnosis profile, and a drug interaction profile; determine, responsive to the one or more patient medication prescription orders, whether drug conflicts exist; and transmit dispensing instructions to one of the two or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines via the communications network when no drug conflicts exist to thereby initiate packaging and dispensing of one or more disposable patient dosing packages at the one of the two or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines.