Method and apparatus for labeling a medicinal substance

摘要

Provided is a method for reading a code from a container of a medicinal substance and printing a label for the container. The method includes reading a machine readable code associated with a container for storing a medicinal drug. The machine readable code includes an identification information of the medicinal drug. The method also for determining a useful life of the medicinal drug based on a time at which the container for storing the medicinal drug was initially accessed and encoding a label content including the useful life of the medicinal drug. The method also includes printing a label including the label content including the useful life of the medicinal drug.

主权项

1. An apparatus for labeling a medicinal substance comprising:
a scanner that scans a first machine-readable code associated with a source container storing the medicinal substance to be delivered to a patient; a processor component comprising:
a substance identification component that determines, based at least in part on said scanning of the first machine-readable code, an identity of the medicinal substance stored in the source container,a usage component that establishes a time at which the medicinal substance stored in the source container was initially accessed, anda labeler component that generates label content comprising information indicating a useful life of the medicinal substance stored in the source container in a machine readable format, based at least in part on the time established by the usage component; and
a printer for printing a label comprising the label content to indicate the useful life of the medicinal substance in response to subsequent scanning of the label content.