SUSPENDED STORAGE SYSTEM FOR PHARMACY

摘要

A storage system for a pharmacy that has a frame containing a rack-like structure with a plurality of storage carriers detachably suspended therefrom. The carriers are sized to receive filled prescription orders and the like and include individual identifiers that facilitate locating the carriers at a specific location on the rack-like structure. Preferably, the storage system includes a tracking system that detects, monitors, and displays to a worker the location of the storage carrier containing a particular customer's prescription order, thereby providing easy retrieval of the customer's prescription order.

主权项

1. A method of manufacturing a storage system, comprising:
providing a computer system; assembling a storage device in communication with the computer system, wherein the storage device includes: a frame; a rack-like structure operably secured to the frame, the rack-like structure having defined locations thereon with each location denoted by a unique identifier; a storage carrier detachably securable to one of the defined locations on the rack-like structure, the storage carrier having a mounting portion for being detachably secured to the rack-like structure and a receptacle portion, one of the defined locations being selected by a pharmacy worker from any available location of the defined locations by the pharmacy worker detachably securing the mounting portion to one location of the defined locations to define a worker-selected location; a filled prescription order received manually within the receptacle portion of the storage carrier, the filled prescription order associated with a customer of the pharmacy; a computer-readable identification tag secured to the mounting portion of the storage carrier, the tag having a unique tag identifier associated with the storage carrier; electronically coupling a tag reader with the computer system, wherein the tag reader detects the computer-readable identification tag when the mounting portion of the storage carrier is positioned on the rack-like structure; wherein the computer system automatically correlates the filled prescription order with the unique identifier associated with the selected location near which the storage carrier is manually placed.