Patent ID: 8374887
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: G06Q,G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for remote supervision and verification of pharmacy functions that are performed by a non-pharmacist person, comprising: in response to performance, by a non-pharmacist person, of pharmacy work to prepare a medication at an institutional pharmacy, wherein the pharmacy work requires pharmacist verification of the pharmacy work, wherein performing the pharmacy work comprises the non-pharmacist person performing, at a workstation in the institutional pharmacy, a sterile compounding process to prepare the medication, wherein the medication is compounded from a plurality of material components at the workstation within the institutional pharmacy: capturing, via an image capture device at the workstation in the institutional pharmacy, one or more images of the pharmacy work performed by the non-pharmacist person as the work is performed by the non-pharmacist person at the institutional pharmacy, wherein at least one of the images is an image of the sterile compounding process performed by the non-pharmacist person that requires verification by a pharmacist for medications to be placed into pharmacy stock; implementing verification software, via one or more computers at the institutional pharmacy, to remotely verify the work performed by the non-pharmacist person, wherein remote verification of the work performed by the non-pharmacist person comprises: transmitting the one or more images captured by the image capture device of the sterile compounding process performed by the non-pharmacist person at the workstation to a remote pharmacist for review, wherein said transmitting the one or more images comprises storing the images on a website; receiving an indication of the remote pharmacist's verification of the correct performance of the sterile compounding process by the non-pharmacist person; and providing, in response to the indication of the remote pharmacist's verification, an indication at the institutional pharmacy that the remote pharmacist has verified the sterile compounding process performed by the non-pharmacist person.