Patent ID: 8140351

Claim:
A method for centrally managing dose order preparation, comprising the steps of: (a) retrieving at a monitoring computer a first dose order record, the first dose order record having an unprocessed status; (b) selecting a workstation from among a set of workstations, at least one being an automated workstation, to handle the first dose order record; (c) forwarding the first dose order record to the automated workstation for conversion into a drug dosage form and for preparation of a dose; (d) receiving at the monitoring computer from the selected workstation a processed-order status indication; (e) updating the first dose order record to the processed-order status, wherein the updating step includes updating a location of the drug dosage form; (f) comparing the first dose order record with the prepared dose; and (g) based on a rejection of the prepared dose, updating the first dose order record as being rejected and generating a second dose order record having an unprocessed status; and (h) repeating steps (a) to (g); wherein the second dose order record indicates that it is a re-order of the first dose order record and includes a link to the first dose order record.