Prescription verification system

摘要

An apparatus for permitting a pharmacist to verify a refill of a filled prescription stored on a host system. A prescription refill screen is provided by the host system to a pharmacy system associated with the pharmacist. The prescription refill screen is associated with the filled prescription. Refill request information is received from the pharmacy system. The refill request information identifying a requested refill of the filled prescription. The refill request information is transmitted through the host system to a health care provider system associated with a health care provider identified by the filled prescription stored on the host system. The host system receives an authorization from the health care provider system authorizing the requested refill of the filled prescription. The host system transmits authorization to the pharmacy system whereby the pharmacist associated with the pharmacy system is authorized to provide the refill of the filled prescription to the patient.

主权项

1. A method for renewing prescriptions, comprising:
submitting, by a member pharmacy via a pharmacy computer system, a login request, including a password associated with the member pharmacy, to an internet website comprising processors and non-transitory memory storing records for a plurality of patients, each of the records containing a set of prescription information including a unique health care provider code identifying a particular member health care provider who prescribed the prescription, and a patient code uniquely identifying the patient receiving the prescription, one or more of the records containing prescription information indicative of filled prescriptions, the internet website also storing pharmacy passwords for verifying the identity of a plurality of member pharmacies, and also storing health care provider passwords for verifying the identity of a plurality of member health care providers; verifying, with the processors using the stored pharmacy passwords, that the login request is associated with one of the member pharmacies; providing, from the processors via the internet website an electronic prescription renewal screen to the pharmacy computer system, the prescription renewal screen being associated with a previously filled prescription; receiving, by the processors via the Internet website, information indicative of a refill request from the pharmacy computer system, the refill request identifying a requested refill of the previously filled prescription; identifying, by the processors using the records, the member health care provider that prescribed the prescription; receiving, by the processors, a login request from a provider computer system associated with the member health care provider that prescribed the prescription, the login request including the password associated with the member health care provider; verifying, by the processors using the stored health care provider passwords, that the login request is associated with the member health care provider identified by the previously filled prescription; transmitting, by the processors via the internet, the refill request through the internet website to the provider computer system; receiving, by the processors via the internet, an authorization from the provider computer system authorizing the refill request of the previously filled prescription; transmitting, by the internet website via the internet, the authorization to the pharmacy computer system from which the refill request originated; and fulfilling, by the member pharmacy, a refill prescription for a patient based on the transmitted authorization.