Patent ID: 8229763

Claim:
A system for medication management, the system including: an order entry component configured to write a plurality of advanced orders, each of the plurality of advanced orders comprising a combination of linked sub-orders; a processing device configured to implement a pharmacy component, the pharmacy component configured to automatically process the plurality of advanced orders without a manual intervention to check for undesirable interaction with respect to at least one of the plurality of advanced orders based on clinical decision support information regarding medication included in the at least one of the plurality of advanced orders and the combination of linked sub-orders associated with the at least one of the plurality of advanced orders and to prepare medication for a patient; and a database configured to: receive the plurality of advanced orders from the order entry component; store the plurality of advanced orders; and communicate the plurality of advanced orders to the pharmacy component for fulfillment without manual intervention, wherein one of the plurality of advanced orders includes a taper order and another one of the plurality of advanced orders includes an order automatically generated in response to a clinical procedure scheduled for the patient, the scheduled procedure to involve a medication to be given to the patient in conjunction with the clinical procedure.