according to the plea agreement. Also, if another healthcare provider within the practice declined to treat a patient because of the patient's aberrant behavior — such as failing a drug screening test for illicit drugs or selling their prescriptions — Rosen and Hoffberg would assume that patient...
the tracking of medical products and/or other inventory maintained by a medical practice. In this manner, doctors can effectively track drug dispensing transactions such that doctors can know what drugs are available for dispensing and whether quantities of drugs on hand have reached critical levels....
Levy, S., “Physician Dispensing—What's Behind the New Surge in the Sale of Drugs by Doctors in Their Offices?”, Drug Topics, Jan. 1, 2001. McCartney, J., “Meds-O-Matic—The InstyMeds Vending Machine Allows Patients to Get Prescriptions Without Visiting the Pharmacist”, Pioneer Pre...
The term “medicament(s)” as used herein is intended to include any digestible vitamin, mineral, or medicine in an oral dosage form, such as a tablet or capsule, and is not intended to be limited to prescription drugs. The term is also intended to include nutritional supplements and other...
Levy, S., “Physician Dispensing—What's Behind the New Surge in the Sale of Drugs by Doctors in Their Offices?”, Drug Topics, Jan. 1, 2001. McCartney, J., “Meds-O-Matic—The InstyMeds Vending Machine Allows Patients to Get Prescriptions Without Visiting the Pharmacist”, Pioneer Pre...
There has been a long term trend of developing new drugs and nutritional supplements which have greatly improved the control of numerous diseases as well as improving the health of the user. There has also been a long term increase in life expectancy. This combination of trends has led to bot...
hospital pharmacy must stock 1500-2000 separate drugs or other line items, of which, on a typical given day, a total of 300-350 different items might be actually used. Certain medical supplies, such as syringes, inhalers, bandages, IV (intravenous) tubes are typically included in such a ...
open a compartment of dispensing equipment to receive drugs matching the drug consumption information in the dosage rule file; detect closure of the compartment and drug provisioning of the dispensing device; upon authorizing bio-identity input, send a provisioned stage reached message to the central...
Various attempts have been made to automate the dispensing of prescription drugs to address these issues. However, these attempts suffer from one or more of the following shortcomings. First, a critical concern in any remote dispensing situation (i.e., one where the dispensing is not under the...
In the health care industry, an important component of patient care is providing and administering the proper medications and/or medical treatments, such as delivering drugs, applying or replacing bandages, treating wounds, and the like. Medications or treatments, in the form of pills (e.g., ca...