Patent ID: 7895056

Claim:
A method of managing a pharmacy product manufacturer change in a pharmacy computing system comprising: obtaining an indication that a first pharmacy manufacturer product corresponding to a pharmacy product type is designated as newly available in the pharmacy computer system, the pharmacy product type corresponding to a drug; obtaining an indication that the first pharmacy manufacturer product is designated as a preferred manufacturer product corresponding to a pharmacy product identifier corresponding to the pharmacy product type; displaying indications of a plurality of pharmacy product equivalents corresponding to the pharmacy product identifier, including displaying an indication of the first pharmacy manufacturer product; receiving an indication that the first pharmacy manufacturer product is selected for filling a first prescription, the first prescription corresponding to a pharmacy location; and based on the indication that the first pharmacy manufacturer product is selected for filling the first prescription, modifying data of each of a set of unfilled prescriptions corresponding to the pharmacy location and to the pharmacy product identifier to indicate the first pharmacy manufacturer product is a current preferred manufacturer product for the each of the set of unfilled prescriptions.