Patent ID: 7467093

Claim:
A method comprising (a) storing in at least one data store in operative connection with at least one computer, data representative of each of at least one patient, medical history of the at least one patient, at least one medical item prescribed for use by the at least one patient, and at last one medical item stored in a patient-accessible self service medical item dispenser apparatus, wherein the dispenser apparatus is operative to receive at least one input from the at least one patient; (b) receiving at least one input through at least one input device of the dispenser apparatus, wherein the at least one input device is in operative connection with the at least one computer, wherein the at least one input includes a request to dispense to a first patient at least one medical item prescribed for use by the first patient; (c) checking medical history data of the first patient to determine if the at least one medical item requested in step (b) should be withheld from being dispensed to the first patient; (d) instructing the dispenser apparatus to dispense the at least one medical item requested in step (b), responsive to a determination made in step (c) that the at least one medical item requested in step (b) should not be withheld from being dispensed to the first patient; and (e) including in the at least one data store, data linking a dispense of the at least one medical item requested in step (b) to the first patient.