The disclosure presents a
system and method for preventing
pharmacy errors for a prescription. The
system and method receives
prescription data comprising medication data and direction data for the delivery of medication identified within the medication data for the prescription, transmits the
prescription data to a
pharmacy computer memory associated with a
pharmacy prescription entry and fill computer. The
system and method further compares, at the pharmacy entry and fill computer, the direction data for the prescription to
error prevention keyword data for the medication data, wherein the
error prevention keyword data is stored in an
error prevention keyword
database associated with the pharmacy entry and fill computer and the pharmacy
computer memory. A possible directions
error message is transmitted to a display of a
communication device for viewing by pharmacy personnel in response to the comparison. The disclosure also presents a system and method for preventing internal pharmacy errors for a
specialty prescription. The system and method receives
prescription data comprising medication data for a prescription, and transmits the prescription data to a pharmacy
computer memory associated with a pharmacy prescription entry and fill computer. The pharmacy entry and fill computer compares the medication data for the prescription to
specialty prescription data stored in a
specialty prescription database. The system and method further transmits first specialty prescription dispensing task information to a display of a
communication device for viewing by pharmacy personnel, and for preventing the pharmacy personnel from dispensing the prescription without performing the first specialty prescription dispensing task, in response to the comparing step.