50 results about "Apothecary" patented technology

An intake to exit security system for high-volume pharmacies provides maximum security from tampering and assures accuracy. The system immediately assigns bar codes to shipments upon arrival and then tracks them through warehousing, bulk distribution, prescription dispensing and shipping to patients, hospitals and drugstores. Bar-coded lock neck devices secure bulk drug canisters to bar-coded dispensing machines at specified dispensing stations where the machines dispense drugs into pre-labeled prescription bottles according to prescription indicia on the labels. Bottles then undergo content analysis and certification before packaged and shipped to customers. A Ramon laser spectral analysis contrasts the bottle contents to a library of known spectral signatures of drugs, and the pharmacist is alerted to any detected difference. A simultaneously captured visual image of the pills enables the pharmacist visually to compare the contents to a library of known visual appearances of the drugs. Both analyses are recorded for prescriptions certified and forwarded to customers. Deviations are excised without disrupting flow of other prescriptions, and the system automatically reassigns an incorrectly filled prescription to another bottle which starts anew through the system. Full bottles of commonly used drugs and specialized containers for irregularly shaped objects, creams and ointments may be pre-filled and inventoried for later collation with prescription bottles at the packaging and shipping stage.

An intelligent pharmacist robot comprises a body (100), two mechanical arms (200) and a controlling system (300); and each mechanical arm (200) is of a structure with at least six shafts. The robot further comprises a stereoscopic vision system (600) connected with the controlling system (300), and the stereoscopic vision system (600) comprises a first camera (610) arranged at the head portion of the body and a second camera (620) arranged on at least one grabbing clamp (260). By means of the technical scheme, the high-intelligent robot can finish medicine preparing work. Due to high intelligence and accuracy, the robot can be applied to working in dangerous occasions in the hospital or preparing medicine with higher requirements. Thus, errors caused by manual operation are avoided. In addition, a robot system can be formed by the robot through networking to finish the whole medicine preparing process.

Systems and methods for facilitating electronic prescriptions and the dispensation of medications subject to prior authorization and/or adherence to a pre-established formulary. A web-based interactive system is established whereby all entities responsible for the prescription event, namely, the prescribing physician, pharmacist/pharmacy and payer/authorizing entity are kept in direct communication with one another via a conventional, secure communications link. All pertinent information regarding the prescription, as well as the patient, is made available to all entities and further, all information associated with a particular formulary is uploaded and made available to the prescribing physician and pharmacist for quick reference as the whether or not a given medication is preapproved. The systems and methods of the present invention are exceptionally effective and efficient, and can be readily utilized with all medications designated as either Part B or Part D per the United States' Medicare healthcare administration system.

The invention discloses a medicine box information management method and a medicine box storage device. The method includes acquiring first marking information on each medicine box, wherein each medicine box is used for storing one medicine and the first marking information includes information of the medicine stored by the medicine box; calling second marking information correlated to the corresponding medicine box storage position of each medicine box when acquiring the first marking information, wherein the second marking information comprises the position information of the medicine box storage position and information of logic relation between the medicine box and relevant hardware connected with the medicine box stored at the medicine box storage position; correlating the first marking information and the second marking information and storing the information into a database as correlated information. By means of the implementation mode, the medicine boxes loaded with medicines can be arranged randomly, a user does not need to worry about whether the medicine boxes are arranged at the positions in corresponding columns correctly, and a pharmacist can conduct management and follow-up use of the medicine boxes conveniently.

The invention discloses a common bulk traditional Chinese medicine decoction piece automatic dispensing cabinet. The common bulk traditional Chinese medicine decoction piece automatic dispensing cabinet comprises a stored medicine weighing system, a control operation system, a dispensing table and a supporting frame; a support frame A and a support frame B are fixed at the bottom of the stored medicine weighing system; a support frame C is mounted at the bottom end of the control operation system; the stored medicine weighing system comprises a plurality of weighing medicine boxes which are arranged in sequence; each weighing medicine box comprises a damping rubber pad, a medicine box body, a medicine storage hopper, a vibration feeding device, a weighing device and a stirring device. By means of the designed stored medicine weighing system, the storage space of traditional Chinese medicine is enlarged, frequent medicine supplementation of a pharmacist is avoided, the medicine taking weighing speed and precision are improved, traditional Chinese medicine mutual pollution is effectively avoided, and the working efficiency of a traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy is greatly improved; the control operation system can improve the convenience of medicine taking and weighing, ensure that a pharmacist has enough time to check the formula again, improve the medication safety of patients, and effectively reduce the work intensity of the pharmacist.

A method of doing business is practiced by a group of independent professionals to meet the varied but related needs of an individual. The method uses a centralized computer system to coordinate professional services to an individual. Professional entities, such as attorneys, physicians, pharmacists, realtors, architects, financial institutions and advisors, insurance agents, bondsman, psychologists, enter into a coalition agreement. The coalition agreement defines a standard infrastructure comprising documentation, modes of communication, and administrative case management, all of which are operable and accessible through the centralized computer system. The professional entities form facilitator groups directed to particular multi-disciplinary problems, which individuals face. The standard infrastructure coordinates the activities of the professional entities. Individuals benefit by having a coordinated approach to their problems and convenience of an apparent single provider through a single user interface.

The invention discloses a self-service medicine purchasing system. The system comprises a medicine searching module, a shopping cart module, a login module, a prescription auditing module, a video communication module, an order creating module, a payment module and a medicine taking module. According to the invention, the public and shared medicine information services are provided through the Internet, the legal, real and safe drug information is ensured, and medicine purchasing and taking services are provided; the system cooperates with a mobile phone APP and a pharmacy robot, the system completes the whole process of drug search, order creation, order payment and automatic drug delivery and provides prescription auditing services, and a remote pharmacist checks the prescription, so themedication safety is guaranteed, and the pharmacist consultation service is provided; a user remotely communicates with a pharmacist through a video call function, and the system helps the user purchase medicine, so the user can complete a series of processes of medicine searching, medicine purchasing and medicine obtaining in a self-service mode; an automatic pharmacy can cancel manual service in the pharmacy, thereby reducing operation cost of the pharmacy and improving service efficiency.

The invention discloses an automatic medicine dispensing and taking method for a pharmacy of traditional Chinese medicine. The automatic medicine dispensing and taking method for the pharmacy of the traditional Chinese medicine comprises the following steps that (1), a doctor provides a medicine taking prescription and inputs the medicine taking prescription into a medicine database of a hospitalinformation system, and the medicine database automatically generates three kinds of codes; (2), a patient takes the medicine taking prescription to a code scanning machine of the pharmacy for code scanning, and the code scanning machine converts the three kinds of codes of the medicine taking prescription into code information of a medicine taking robot and transmits the code information to the medicine taking robot; (3), a pharmacist puts an equal quantity of packaging boxes on a medicine bag conveying belt according to the dosage of the medicine taking prescription; (4), the medicine takingrobot takes medicines one by one according to medicine names of the different medicines in the medicine taking prescription; (5), the packaging boxes are conveyed to a pharmacy medicine taking windowthrough the medicine bag conveying belt; and (6), the pharmacist manually checks the medicines and delivers the medicines to the patient. The method has the advantages that the time and effort of thepharmacist are saved, the dispensing accuracy rate is greatly increased, the pharmacist can provide better pharmacy service, and the relationship between the patient and the pharmacist is improved.

Certain embodiments of an anal medicinal applicator that have a non-circular shaped shaft provide enhanced medicinal cream efficacy when applied to a pathologic anal canal. The oblong or non-primarily circular shaped shaft enhances the ability of the shaft to more easily be made to move into the folds and contours in the anal canal thereby more evenly spreading medicinal cream on the full surface of the anal canal. Other envision a generally circular (in cross-section) enlarged dome that helps to keep the medicinal cream in the anal canal. Other embodiments include a medicine blocking ring on the shaft near the handle that prevents the medicinal cream from flowing out of the anus when the anal medicinal applicator is being used.

The invention elates to a medicine pumper capable of automatic pumping of medicine residues. The medicine pumper comprises a medicine residue bottle which stores the medicine residues, a medicine storage needle tube of a to-be-pumped medicine liquid, as well as a medicine pumping device which guides the medicine residues in the medicine residue bottle into the medicine storage needle tube in a one-way manner. Through alternate repeated motion of a piston rod of a first needle cylinder and a piston rod of a second needle cylinder, the medicine liquid in the medicine residue bottle is continuously pumped into the medicine storage needle tube, so that the medicine residues could be pumped automatically and thus working strength of pharmacists is reduced; and meanwhile, according to a control strategy set for a power element, the dosage of the medicine liquid which is pumped each time/accumulatively could be controlled, so that accuracy of the medicine liquid pumping amount could be increased.

Systems and methods for providing world-wide access to prescribed medications are disclosed. A unique patient identifier is received and verified to match stored patient identifiers. Identification information is received and is verified to match stored information. A unique pharmacist identifier is received and is verified to match stored pharmacist identifiers. Prescriptions associated with the received unique patient identifier are displayed and one or more are selected. Dispensation information, including an amount of medication dispensed, a time and date of dispensation, and a reason for dispensation are received and the prescription database is updated accordingly.

The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicine decoction piece automatic classification system based on multiple features and a random forest. The traditional Chinese medicine decoction piece automatic classification system comprises a data reading unit, an image preprocessing unit, a feature collection processing unit and an automatic classification storage unit which are in signal connection in sequence, wherein the image preprocessing unit is in signal connection with the automatic classification storage unit. The invention further provides a traditional Chinese medicine decoction piece automatic classification method based on multiple features and a random forest. The traditional Chinese medicine decoction piece automatic classification system and method based on multiple features and a random forest, update an image feature vector by utilizing an image histogram, utilizes a random forest model to automatically classify and store the traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces, so that the workload of a pharmacist is greatly reduced in the process, and a series of defects of low accuracy, long classification time and the like of manual classification are also avoided,and the classification efficiency of the traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces is greatly improved on the premise of ensuring high accuracy, and the classification time is greatly saved.

An apparatus for automated storage and dispensing of medications. Medications are stored in one or more inventory storage foam storage plates attached to a frame of the apparatus. Medications are delivered to the apparatus via a locked delivery container. A carrier mechanism retrieves medications from the inventory storage container and delivery container and moves medications to various subsystems of the apparatus. Information related to medications is communicated to a remote pharmacist prior to dispensing the medication. Multiple installations of the apparatus are centrally coordinated.

An automatic medication dispenser device includes a container structure for containing medications (pills or liquids). There is a display screen on the container displaying the current date and time, name of patient (user), prescription name and dosage, when the prior dose was taken and when the next one is due. A button is push to activate the dispensing of the medication.

The provider can control the AMD remotely: proper use of the medication and interact through video (telemedicine) with the patient. Only a provider such as (doctor, nurses or pharmacist) will be able to access the area where medicines are contained since it requires a special key.

A Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) device used to detect infectious agents and certain diseases. The device provides a quantitative PCR that amplifies the target DNA sequence, while monitoring the amplitude of signal originating from DNA-intercalating probes, typically fluorescence, to quantify the amount of DNA being amplified. The device is used in combination with other medical devices to obtain the user's physical exam data. A combination of the PCR machine and above-mentioned other instruments with a network communication device (TOTUS) sends the physical exam and PCR information to servers, and/or physicians, pharmacists and other medical professionals to provide AI decisions.