Patent ID: 7860730
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of managing drug prescription orders within a network of pharmacy resources comprising: receiving, into electronic queues corresponding to computers of a plurality of pharmacy resources in the network of pharmacy resources, prescription work orders for execution, wherein: calculating a workload for each pharmacy resource, the workload based on an employee type of a corresponding at least one employee, wherein the employee type is selected from a group of employee types including at least a pharmacist and a non-pharmacist; determining a current workload distribution of the plurality of pharmacy resources based on the calculated workload of each pharmacy resource; designating a particular pharmacy resource as one of a sender or a receiver pharmacy resource based on the calculated workload of the particular pharmacy resource and the current workload distribution of the plurality of pharmacy resources; and automatically routing, based on the current workload distribution, a first portion of the information processing portion of a particular prescription work order from a sender electronic queue corresponding to a sender computer corresponding to a designated sender pharmacy resource to at least one first receiver electronic queue corresponding to at least one first receiver computer corresponding to at least one first designated receiver pharmacy resource.