Patent ID: 7537155

Claim:
An automated will-call system for the distribution of finished pharmaceutical prescriptions for a particular patient or group of patients, comprising: a) a cabinet, with a plurality of secure storage locations, located at a pharmacy; b) prescrintion input source for providing prescription information about a prescription for a particular patient, the prescription having been authorized by a medical professional, the prescription information including at least one of an identity of the particular patient and a prescription number; c) a retriever input source for providing identifying information about at least one of a retriever's identity and the finished prescription, wherein the retriever is a pharmacy customer authorized to retrieve the particular patient's finished prescription; and d) a controller associated with the cabinet, the prescription input source, and the retriever input source, the controller configured to receive the prescription information from the prescription input source, track a storage location in the cabinet in which the finished prescription is stored, and permit access to the storage location and the finished prescription stored therein to the retriever in response to the retriever inputting the identifying information.