Centralized Drug Code Mapping Across Local Pharmacy Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
The frequent issuance of new drug codes necessitates repetitive and error-prone updates across various health administration systems of different medical facilities, consuming significant computing resources and increasing the risk of errors due to varying drug identifier formats.
Innovation Solution
A centralized drug management platform that receives new drug codes, identifies corresponding medications, determines local identifiers, and automatically updates multiple administration systems, reducing the need for manual updates and minimizing errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a pharmacist manually updates drug information in multiple local drug management systems for each new drug code, then the drug information can be entered into the systems, but the workload increases and the risk of errors increases
Solution Approach 1:
A centralized drug management system acts as an intermediary between the new drug code information and the multiple local drug management systems. The centralized system receives new drug codes, determines the corresponding medications, identifies relevant local identifiers across different systems, and automatically distributes update instructions to all affected local systems, eliminating the need for pharmacists to manually update each system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple distributed local drug management systems into a unified centralized management architecture. By merging the update coordination function into a single centralized system, the patent enables simultaneous synchronization across all local systems, reducing redundant manual operations and minimizing error risks associated with individual manual updates.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a pharmacist updates drug information in multiple different health administration systems with different data formats, then all systems can have the new drug code, but the complexity of the update process increases
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized drug management system provides a universal interface for receiving new drug codes and automatically adapts to multiple different local health administration systems with varying data formats and structures. The system determines appropriate local identifiers for each target system based on their specific requirements, enabling a single update process to serve multiple diverse systems without requiring separate manual update procedures for each.
3Productivity
If manual updates are performed across multiple systems, then drug information can be propagated, but the time consumption and resource usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized system performs preliminary determination of all relevant local identifiers and target systems before executing the update distribution. By pre-processing the identification of which systems need updates and what identifiers to use, the system enables rapid simultaneous propagation of drug codes across all affected systems, eliminating the sequential time consumption of manual updates.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for optimizing drug management are disclosed. A disclosed system implements a method that includes receiving, from a first client system, a new drug code and drug information associated with new drug code, determining, by the computing system based on the received drug information, a predetermined medication and a first local identifier used by the first client system to identify the predetermined medication, determining, based at least in part on identifying the first local identifier, one or more second local identifiers that identify the predetermined medication, identifying, based on the one or more second local identifiers, a plurality of second client systems that use the one or more second local identifiers, and automatically providing, an instruction to each of the plurality of second client systems to associate, at the second client system, one or more corresponding second local identifiers with the new drug code.