Patent ID: 7729927

Claim:
A method of prescribing and dispensing prescription pharmaceutical products comprising: a. issuing a pharmaceutical product media to one or more prescribers, wherein the pharmaceutical product media is encoded with information that identifies one or more particular prescription pharmaceutical products; b. electronically activating the pharmaceutical product media in response to the prescriber communicatively linking the encoded media with a central computing station and communicating data relating to the media to a database associated with the central computing station; wherein the activated pharmaceutical product media identifies one or more prescription pharmaceutical products that have been prescribed by the prescriber for a patient; c. generating data in the database associated with the central computing station in response to a pharmacy communicatively linking the encoded media with the central computing station, wherein the data generated in the database identifies the pharmaceutical product provided to the patient; and d. wherein when the pharmacy communicatively links the encoded media with the central computing station, the central computing station validates the encoded media to ensure the encoded media has been activated.