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GB2597043A
GB2597043A GB2005653.7A GB202005653A GB2597043A GB 2597043 A GB2597043 A GB 2597043A GB 202005653 A GB202005653 A GB 202005653A GB 2597043 A GB2597043 A GB 2597043A
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Abstract

Electronic pharmacy system 100 comprising: e-pharmacy platform 20 comprising central server; wholesaler node 60 to allow medicine wholesalers to access an e-prescription and a medicine order from the platform and to send a 3D scan pack of the medicines being packed to a pharmacist node 80 through the platform; the pharmacist node to allow pharmacists to access the e-prescriptions and 3D scan pack to verify and send an approval if the medicines match the e-prescription; a logistic node 90 to allow logistic service providers to receive collect- and deliver orders from wholesalers, and to send a successful delivery receipt to the platform; and a user interface to allow a patient 50 to access the platform through registration with their user credentials. The nodes may be smart devices with user interfaces to allow access to the platform. The central server may include algorithms and computer programs to download the e-prescription from the NHS (RTM) Spine, determine the wholesaler with the best offer, send an order to that wholesaler, send the 3D scan pack and e-prescription to the pharmacist for approval, send the dispatch approval to the wholesaler, and claim prescription from the NHS (RTM).

Description

Intellectual Property Office Application No. GII2005653.7 RTM Date:8 October 2020 The following terms are registered trade marks and should be read as such wherever they occur in this document:
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Intellectual Property Office is an operating name of the Patent Office www.gov.uk/ipo TITLE: ELECTRONIC PHARMACY PLATFORM
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to smart electronic pharmacy system.
More particularly, the present invention relates to an advance electronic prescription system that allows patient to select the pharmacy with best offer as well as a system that creates 3D scan of the prescribed medicines to allow pharmacist to review virtually and approve for delivery to the patient.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the standard medical healthcare practice, the doctors or the general practitioners writes the medical prescription over the paper and the patient or concern person of the patient collects the medicines prescribed within the prescription from the pharmacy by going there and showing the prescription. To make this pharmacy service more convenient and medicines delivery to the patient effortless as well as error free, many countries adopted different zo system including an electronic prescription system.
The conventional electronic prescription system of NHS of UK allows medical professional such as doctors or GP to send an e-prescription over the NHS Spine which is one of the application provided by NHS system. Then, to receive that e-prescription, the pharmacies have to manually input the details of the patient within the server which then only allows pharmacy to access the e-prescription of the patient.
But, as the pharmacies have to manually enter the details of the patient to access the e-prescription, there is not any control of the patient over the access and hence have to depend over the pharmacies only to access the prescription of the patient. Therefore, there exists a need of a system that may allow patient to register within the system and access the system and only after successful registration by the patient, the pharmacies may receive the prescription.
Further, there is a need of a system, that may automatically compare and determine the best offer provided by the wholesaler and place an order from the best offer provider wholesaler on behalf of the patient. Moreover, there exists a need of an electronic pharmacy system that scans and creates the 3D image portfolio of the medicines being packed at the wholesaler so that the pharmacist may review and approve for delivery of medicines to the patient using the electronic pharmacy system.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further disclosed in the detailed description of the invention. This summary is not intended to identify key or essential inventive concepts of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended for determining the scope of the claimed subject matter.
The disclosure of present invention provides an electronic pharmacy system to connect the individuals and medical organizations with the patients to provide medical help as well as to make pharmacy paperless and errorless. The electronic pharmacy system of present invention is comprising of an e-pharmacy platform having a centralize server to allow access to patients to connect them internally making the pharmacy system paperless and errorless.
The main aspect of the present invention is to provide an electronic pharmacy system for generation of an e-prescription to delivery of a medicines to a patient comprising of: an e-pharmacy platform having a centralized server to connect to 20 pharmacists, medicine wholesalers and a logistic service providers with a patient; a wholesaler node that is configured to allow the wholesalers to access the e-prescription and an order of the medicines from the e-pharmacy platform and send a 3D scan pack of the medicines being packed to the phaimacist node through e-pharmacy platform; a pharmacist node that is configured to allow the pharmacists to access the e-prescriptions and the 3D scan pack to verify and send an approval if the medicines matches with the e-prescription; a logistic node that is configured to allow the logistic service providers to receive, collect and deliver order from the wholesaler 10 and to send a successful delivery receipt to the e-pharmacy platfoim; and a user interface to allow the patient to access the e-pharmacy platform through registration with user credentials of the patient.
The electronic pharmacy system of present invention connect to NHS Spine system and download the patient prescription which gets stored within the centralized server of the system that can be accessed by all the authorized agencies and pharmacies which are beneficiaries and members of the e-pharmacy system of present invention.
The e-pharmacy platform of present invention connects with the National Health Service(NHS) Spine system where the general practitioner first sends the medical prescriptions. The electronic pharmacy system of present invention then allows patient to access the e-pharmacy platform by registering within the system by entering credentials using any network enabled smart user device capable of accessing the e-pharmacy platform. The successful registration of the patient allows the e-prescription platform of the system to download and store the medical prescription of the patient from the NHS server to the centralize server of the electronic pharmacy system of present invention.
The centralize server of the present invention includes a computer programs and algorithms that automatically determines the nearest wholesaler with the best price and places order from that wholesaler. The system of present invention also allows patient to select the pharmacy by accessing the e-pharmacy platform of the system using the smart user device. Further, the electronic pharmacy system of present invention allows to download and give confirmation of receipt of the medical prescription by the wholesaler at the wholesaler's node, using an automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit that further includes a smart means and a user interface to access the e-pharmacy platform and allow wholesaler to view/ send the instructions. After receipt of the medical prescription, the automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit automatically prepares a package with the prescribed medicines, prints labels with electronic codes, attaches on the packages as well as creates a 3D portfolio of the images (scan pack) by taking images during whole process and saves the 3D image portfolio within the centralize server of the present electronic prescription system.
According to one embodiment, the computer algorithm and program of the electronic prescription system of present invention then sends the 3D image portfolio (scan pack) and the medical 113 prescription towards the pharmacist node of the system and allows the pharmacist at the pharmacist node to access the medical prescription and the 3D image portfolio (scan pack) to cross verify and provide approval using a smart electronic unit of the pharmacist, so that the wholesaler may dispatch the package towards the patient. After approval from the pharmacist of correct medicines, the e-pharmacy platform sends the dispatch approval towards the wholesaler's node that in turn sends collection order to a logistic node of the logistic services of the electronic pharmacy system which in turns collects the medicine package from the wholesaler and delivers to the patient and sends the delivery confirmation signed by the patient to the e-pharmacy platform. Finally, after delivery confirmation from the patient, the e-pharmacy platform of the present system sends the bill claiming prescription to the NHS server so that the government of a country or an insurance companies may access the platform, check the authenticity of prescription and delivery and accordingly proceed to clear the bills of the wholesaler.
This process with multiple check points reduce the technical error to almost zero and also removes human intervention at large level and make patient life easy by sealing at home.
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The foregoing summary, as well as the following detailed description of the invention, is better understood when read in conjunction with the appended drawings. For the purpose of illustrating the invention, exemplary constructions of the invention are shown in the drawings. However, the invention is not limited to the specific methods and structures disclosed herein. The description of a method step or a structure referenced by a numeral in a drawing is applicable to the description of that method step or structure shown by that same numeral in any subsequent drawing herein.
Fig. 1 illustrates schematic diagram of electronic pharmacy system of present invention.
Fig. 2 illustrates workflow diagram showing flow of work within the electronic pharmacy system of present invention.
Fig. 3 shows automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit at the wholesaler stage of electronic pharmacy system of present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The embodiment herein and the various features and advantageous details thereof are explained more fully with reference to the non-limiting embodiments and detailed in the following description. Descriptions of well-known components and processing techniques are omitted so as to not unnecessarily obscure the embodiments herein. The examples used herein are intended merely to facilitate an understanding of ways in which the method and embodiments herein may be practiced and to further enable those of skill in the art to practice the embodiments herein. Accordingly, the examples should not be construed as limiting the scope of the embodiments herein.
The disclosure of present invention discloses an e-pharmacy or an electronic pharmacy system that connects all individuals and medical organizations with the patients to provide medical help as well as to make pharmacy paperless and errorless. The electronic pharmacy system of present invention is comprising of a centralize server and an e-pharmacy platform to allow access of the platform to all the medical professionals, government or private organizations and patients to connect them internally making a centralized healthcare system that makes the medical system paperless and errorless. The electronic pharmacy system of present invention allows to download the e-prescription uploaded by general practitioners (doctors or medical practitioners) of the patient over the e-pharmacy platform which gets stored within the centralized server of the system that can be accessed by all the authorized user and pharmacies which are beneficiaries and members of the e-pharmacy system of present invention.
According to one embodiment, the electronic pharmacy system of present invention connects with the National Health Service(NHS) server where the general practitioner first sends the medical prescriptions other pre-cautionary instructions for the pharmacies. The electronic pharmacy system of present invention then allows patient to access the e-pharmacy platform by registering within the system by entering credentials using any network enabled smart user device capable of accessing the e-pharmacy platform. The successful registration of the patient allows the e-prescription platfoim of the system to download and store the medical prescription of the patient from the NHS server to the centralize server of the electronic pharmacy system of present invention.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the centralize server of the present invention includes a computer programs and algorithms that automatically determines the nearest wholesaler with the best price and places order from that wholesaler. The system of present invention also allows patient to select the pharmacy by accessing the e-pharmacy platform of the system using the smart user device. According to one embodiment, the electronic pharmacy system of present invention allows to download and give confirmation of receipt of the medical prescription by the wholesaler at the wholesaler's node, using an automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit that further includes a smart means and a user interface to access the e-pharmacy platform and allow wholesaler to view/send the instructions. After receipt of the medical prescription, the automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit automatically prepares a package with the prescribed medicines, prints labels with electronic codes, attaches on the packages as well as creates a 3D portfolio of the images (scan pack) by taking images during whole process and saves the 3D image portfolio within the centralize server of the present electronic prescription system.
According to one embodiment, the computer algorithm and program of the electronic prescription system of present invention then sends the 3D image portfolio (scan pack) and the medical prescription towards the pharmacist node of the system and allows the pharmacist at the pharmacist node to access the medical prescription and the 3D image portfolio (scan pack) to cross verify and provide approval using a smart electronic unit of the pharmacist, so that the wholesaler can dispatch the package towards the patient. After approval from the pharmacist of correct medicines, the e-pharmacy platform sends the dispatch approval is towards the wholesaler's node that in turn sends collection order to a logistic node of the logistic services of the electronic pharmacy system which in turns collects the medicine package from the wholesaler and delivers to the patient and sends the delivery confirmation signed by the patient to the e-pharmacy platform.
Finally, after delivery confirmation from the patient, the e-pharmacy platform of the present system sends the bill claiming prescription to the NHS server so that the government of a country or an insurance companies may access the platform, check the authenticity of prescription and delivery and accordingly proceed to clear the bills of the wholesaler.
Referring to Fig. 1 now, which discloses schematic diagram of electronic pharmacy system 100 showing an e-pharmacy platform 20 having a centralized server to make the complete pharmacy system online and automatic, making it a paperless and errorless. The e-pharmacy platform 20 connects NHS Spine 30, pharmacists 80, wholesalers of medicines 60 and the patients 50 connects to e-pharmacy platform 20, the e-prescription of the patient over an NHS Spine 30 from where the e-pharmacy platform 20 of the present electronic pharmacy system 100 downloads the e-prescription 2 and saves into the centralized server of the e-pharmacy platform 20. The e-pharmacy platform 20 of present invention allows patient 50 to access and register within the platfoim 20 by adding personal user credentials using the smart user device of the patient. Only after successful registration of the patient within the platform 20, the platform 20 downloads the e-prescription 2 from the NHS server 30. The e-pharmacy platform zo 20 of the present invention includes a smart algorithms and computer programs that, based on the location of the patient as well as based on the priced offered by multiple wholesalers registered and associated with the system 100, automatically determines wholesaler providing best offer and sends order 3 to that wholesaler node 60 that allows access of the platform 20 to the wholesaler.
According to one embodiment, the wholesaler's node is comprising of an automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit 70 that further includes a smart means and a user interface to allow wholesaler to access the e-pharmacy platform 20 and also to view/send the instructions. The automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit 70 further includes a computer controller, cameras, weighing scales and a scarming mean that creates a complete 3D image portfolio (scan pack) of the medicines being packaged. The computer controller of the automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit 70 sends that 3D scan pack 4 to the e-pharmacy platform 20 to be is further sent to the pharmacist node 80 of the present system 100, by the e-pharmacy platform. The pharmacist node 80 is any of network enabled smart user device that allows pharmacists to accesses the platform 20, cross verifies the virtual 3D scan pack with the e-prescription and give approval 6 if the medicines within the package matches with the e-prescription.
The e-pharmacy platform 20, after receiving the approval from the pharmacist node 80, automatically sends a dispatch approval 7 towards the wholesaler's node 60 that in turn sends collection order 8 to a logistic node 90 of the present system 100. The logistic node 90 may also be any of the network enabled smart user device that allows individuals or workers of the logistics to receive a delivery order and send the patient signed delivery receipt 9 and delivery confirmation 10 to the e-pharmacy platform after successful delivery of package to the patient 50. Finally, the e-pharmacy platform 20 sends the delivery receipt to the NHS server 30 or an insurance company of the patient 80 to claim prescription 11.
Fig. 2 illustrates workflow diagram showing flow of work within the electronic pharmacy system 100 of present invention that connects is all the registered users and professionals such as pharmacists and medicines wholesalers with the patients to deliver the e-prescribed medicines to the patient without any error. According to present embodiment, the general practitioners to electronically prescribe medicines to the patient 101 that first goes over the NHS server zo (NHS Spine) as an e-prescription; the system 100 then allows patient to register within the e-pharmacy platform of the system 100 that in turn allows the e-pharmacy platform to download the e-prescription and accordingly send order to wholesaler 102; the automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit at the wholesaler's node picks, packs and sends the 3D scan pack of the package to the e-pharmacy platform 103; the e-pharmacy platform then sends the 3D scan pack and the e-prescription to the pharmacist node to take approval from the pharmacist 104; the e-pharmacy platform then sends the approval to the wholesalers node to keep the package ready to dispatch 105; the e-pharmacy platform sends the collect and deliver order to the logistic node, individuals of which collects lo the package from wholesalers and delivers to the patient 106; and the patient receives the package and signs the receipt that is used by the e-pharmacy platform to claim bill from the National Health System.
Fig. 3 shows automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit 70 at the wholesaler node 60 of electronic pharmacy system 100 of present invention. The automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit 70 picks the medicines prescribed in the e-prescription, packs it, prepares a 3D scan pack by completely scanning the pack and the medicines being packed within it, so that the pharmacist may virtually review the medicines. The automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit 70 is mainly comprising of a computer controller 71 communicatively coupled with all the other components of the automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit 70 to control their working as well as sequence of working. The automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit 70 comprises a conveyer belt 72 configured to transfer pack around all the components of the automatic 3D imaging and packaging 5 unit 70. The computer controller 71 starts/ stops and controls the movement of the conveyor belt 72. The automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit 70 comprises a primary weighting scale 74 and a secondary weighting scale 78 configured beneath the conveyer belt such that it measures the weight of the pack when the pack comes 10 over the weighting scales and send the measured weight to the controller 74.
According to present embodiment, the automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit 70 further includes a 2 side cameras 75 that are configured to take pictures of the pack from both the sides as soon as the pack over the conveyer 72 reaches within the proximity of this cameras 75. A label printers 76 and 79 are configured to print dispensing labels and apply over the package. Further, the automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit 70 includes a 360 degree scanner that scans the package from all the sides and sends it to the controller 71 that creates a scan pack or 3D image portfolio of the pack for verification by the pharmacist virtually.
According to one embodiment, the network enabled smart user device is any of the smartphone, laptop, computer, tablet or any other smart device that is capable of accessing the e-pharmacy platfoirn. Further, all the nodes such as wholesaler's node, pharmacist node and logistic node is consisting of a smart mean having a user interface to allow user to of the respected node to access the e-pharmacy platform to send or receive order, commands or instructions over the platform.
The foregoing description of the specific embodiments will so fully reveal the general nature of the embodiments herein that others can, by applying current knowledge, readily modify and/or adapt for various applications such specific embodiments without departing from the generic concept, and, therefore, such adaptations and modifications should and are intended to be comprehended within the meaning and range of equivalents of the disclosed embodiments. It is to be understood that the phraseology or terminology employed herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation. Therefore, while the embodiments herein have been described in terms of preferred embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that the embodiments herein can be practiced with modification within the scope of the embodiments as described herein.

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  1. CLAIMS1. An electronic pharmacy system for generation of an e-prescription to delivery of a medicines to a patient comprising of: an e-pharmacy platform haying a centralized server to connect to pharmacists, medicine wholesalers and a logistic service providers with a patient; a wholesaler node that is configured to allow the wholesalers to access the e-prescription and an order of the medicines from the e-pharmacy platform and send a 3D scan pack of the medicines being packed to the pharmacist node through e-pharmacy platform; a pharmacist node that is configured to allow the pharmacists to access the e-prescriptions and the 3D scan pack to verify and send an approval if the medicines matches with the e-prescription; a logistic node that is configured to allow the logistic service providers to receive, collect and deliver order from the wholesaler and to send a successful delivery receipt to the e-pharmacy platform; and a user interface to allow the patient to access the e-pharmacy platform through registration with user credentials of the patient.
  2. 2. The electronic pharmacy system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wholesaler node, the pharmacist node and the logistic node are the smart devices with user interface to allow access of the e-pharmacy platform.
  3. 3. The electronic pharmacy system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the centralized server includes smart algorithms and computer programs to download the e-prescription from the NHS Spine, to determine the wholesaler with a best offer, to send an order to said wholesaler, to send the 3D scan pack and the e-prescription to the pharmacist for approval, to send the dispatch approval to the wholesaler, and to claim prescription from the NHS.
  4. 4. The electronic pharmacy system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wholesalers node further includes an automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit.
  5. 5. The electronic pharmacy system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the automatic 3D imaging and packaging unit is provided to automatically pick and pack the medicines, to scan the medicines and a package, to creates the 3D scan pack of the medicines and the package and to send the 3D scan pack to the e-pharmacy platform.
  6. 6. The electronic pharmacy system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the smart user device is any of a smartphone, a lo tablet, a laptop or any other smart wearable device.
  7. 7. A method of working of an electronic pharmacy system is comprising steps of: allowing a patient to register within an e-pharmacy platform using a smart user device; after successful registration of the patient within the e-pharmacy platform, the e-pharmacy downloads the e-prescription of the patient from the NHS Spine, which was prescribed by general practitioner or Doctor to patient, determines best offer from a wholesaler for the prescription and sends an order to said wholesaler over a wholesaler node; the wholesaler node receives an order, picks and packs a medicines, scans the medicines and a package, creates a 3D scan pack of the medicines and the package, and sends it to the e-pharmacy platform; the e-pharmacy platform sends the 3D scan pack and the e-prescription to a pharmacist node to take an approval from a pharmacist; lo the pharmacist using the pharmacist node, accesses the e-prescription and the 3D scan pack to cross verify and sends an approval for dispatch to the e-pharmacy platform, the e-pharmacy platform sends the dispatch approval to the wholesaler node; the wholesaler node sends a collect and deliver order to a logistic node; a logistic service provider using the logistic node, sends a delivery successful receipt with a patient's sign to the e-pharmacy platform after delivery of the medicines to the patient; and the e-pharmacy platform sends the prescription claim to the NHS for clearance.
  8. 8. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the wholesaler node, the pharmacist node and the logistic node are the smart devices with user interface to allow access of the e-pharmacy platform.
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