Patent ID: 8639525

Claim:
A system for enabling transfer of a drug from a first drug container to a second drug container at a specific institution, comprising: a drug identification component that retrieves drug identifying data for a drug in the first drug container by scanning machine-readable data on the first drug container, wherein the drug is included in a set of drugs; a storage medium that stores a site-specific database comprising attributes and associated values for the set of drugs including the drug in the first drug container, wherein the attributes comprise patient-independent drug policies and patient-independent drug handling guidance specific for the institution; a processor that obtains the drug identifying data and the attributes and associated values for the drug and produces information about the drug using the drug identifying data and the attributes and associated values; a rules engine that applies one or more rules to the information about the drug to generate patient-independent drug handling information; and an output unit that generates a label comprising the drug handling information in human-readable or machine-readable form, or both, to be affixed on the second container.