公开(公告)号：US10998094B1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-04

申请号：US16406399

申请日：2019-05-08

Applicant: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.

Inventor： Roger Yu-Wei Chiu ,  Henna R. Griego ,  Ryan J. Phillips ,  Ryan Stoll ,  Yigong Zhang

IPC: G16H20/13 ,  G07F17/00 ,  G16H10/60 ,  G16H40/20 ,  A61J7/00

Abstract: A method includes identifying drugs to be dispensed from medication containers within filling cabinets in a pharmacy dispensing system. The drugs are automatically dispensed from the medication containers into pill containers. The method also includes determining a distribution parameter for the medication containers. The distribution parameter represents one or more of a quantity of the drugs that is dispensed or a limit on dispensing the drugs. The method also includes determining at least one allocation of the drugs in the medication containers that differs from a current allocation of the drugs in the medication containers, and changing the current allocation of the drugs in the medication containers to increase a distribution velocity at which the drugs are dispensed from the pharmacy dispensing system.