Patent ID: 7267278

Claim:
A method for providing pharmaceutical information to a patient, said method comprising: dispensing a pharmaceutical product having an electronically identifiable tag associated with said pharmaceutical product; electronically reading said electronically identifiable tag of said pharmaceutical product to identify said pharmaceutical product; prompting said patient with a selective opportunity to accept or decline prescription counseling by interacting with an electronic input device; wherein said patient selects to accept said prescription counseling by step-wise interactively, retrieving electronically stored pharmaceutical information about said pharmaceutical product in increasingly detailed information comprising: special directions; precautions; other drug interactions; adverse side effects; and or actions to be taken in event a dose is missed; and electronically disclosing said stored pharmaceutical information visually and/or audibly counseling to said patient comprising: electronically prompting said patient with a first message, wherein said first message provides said patient with an interactive choice of accepting or declining said pharmaceutical counseling; and wherein said pharmaceutical counseling is electronically disclosed to said patient upon said patient interactively choosing to accept said pharmaceutical counseling, based upon said information derived from said electronic identification of said pharmaceutical product, or wherein no pharmaceutical information is electronically disclosed to said patient upon said patient interactively choosing to decline said pharmaceutical counseling; and a historical record is established for the patient counseling interaction.