Patent ID: 7155396

Claim:
A drug preparation order system for use with a drug preparation order sheet, said system comprising: a control unit for carrying out logic operations and outputting control signals; a display device connected to said control unit; and a plurality of printers connected to said control unit, said control unit comprising: a memory for storing a plurality of printer codes each corresponding to one of said plurality of printers, a plurality of drug type codes, and a printer setting file defining a correlation between the drug type codes and the printer codes; an input device through which external data can be entered into said memory, said external data comprising a plurality of sets of data, each set comprising drug data; correlating means for correlating each of the plurality of sets of data with one of the drug type codes; display means for displaying said correlation between the drug type codes and the printer codes on said display device; altering means for altering said correlation between the drug type codes and the printer codes in response to a signal entered through said input device; and printer activating means for, in response to a command to print one of the plurality of sets of data, activating one of said printers that corresponds to one of the printer codes corresponding, in accordance with said printer setting file, to one of said drug type codes which is correlated by said correlating means with said one of the plurality of sets of data to print said one of the plurality of sets of data on a drug preparation sheet.