Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Inventory management
Patent
1996-03-07
1998-12-01
Hayes, Gail O.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Inventory management
705 2, 235375, G06F 1760
Patent
active
058452648
ABSTRACT:
A system for the identification of medications in pill, capsule, tablet, and caplet for the system including the placement of machine scannable bar code symbols on the surface of the medication and the identification of the medication by use of the bar code. The resulting identification information can be analyzed by a computer program, permitting both a drug identification and verification method for use by a doctor, pharmacist, emergency room or other medical staff, paramedics, law enforcement personnel, patient and/or family members, or indeed anyone who may need to know a drug's identity, and a tracking system by inclusion of the identification data into an appropriate information database to monitor an individual's prescription drug consumption and to alert of potential harmful drug interactions.
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Hayes Gail O.
Kalinowski Alexander
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