MEDICATION UNIQUE DRUG IDENTIFIER TRACKING, MONITORING AND VERIFICATION FOR PHARMACY

摘要

An automated tracking system for a pharmacy that maintains each medication's Unique Drug Identifier ("UDI") information from the stock supply container to individual prescriptions filled therefrom. The UDI information automatically travels with each individual prescription until it is dispensed to a customer or patient, thereby allowing the medication contained therein to be returned to stock without risk of losing key information about the medication such as its expiration date and the like. In disclosed embodiments, the computer system can monitor key UDI information of the stock supply containers and the individual filled prescriptions to promote use of medications expiring sooner than others in the pharmacy, locate, track and promote use of returned to stock medications that have not been returned to the supply containers, and prevent the dispensing of expired or about to expire medications.