Centralized pharmacy business method
View Patent ↗A centralized pharmacy business method includes forming a business alliance between a centralized pharmacy, one or more satellite pharmacists/facility directors, and a shipping service. Optionally, the centralized pharmacy and the shipping service are located “end of runway,” which means that the shipping service is co-located with or in close proximity to the centralized pharmacy. The satellite pharmacists/facility directors may accrue incentives based on recruiting one or more customer bases. Maintenance prescription orders are received and filled by the centralized pharmacy and delivered to the respective customer base. Acute prescription orders are received and filled by the satellite pharmacy of the pharmacists/facility directors near the customer base and may be delivered to the respective customer base.
1. A computerized method for fulfilling a pharmacy prescription order, the method comprising:
receiving, via a computer network, one or more maintenance prescription orders on a first computer at a central pharmacy from a first customer base, wherein a maintenance prescription order is one that is prescribed on a scheduled and routine basis;
receiving, via the computer network, one or more acute prescription orders on the first computer at the central pharmacy from the first customer base, wherein an acute prescription order is one that is identified as needed immediately, within a time period inconsistent with an overnight delivery, said prescription needed for a limited and defined duration;
accessing the one or more acute prescription orders via the computer network with a second computer associated with a first satellite pharmacy, wherein the first satellite pharmacy is one of a plurality of satellite pharmacies, wherein each of the plurality of satellite pharmacies has a producer that has a contractual relationship with the central pharmacy, and wherein, of the plurality of satellite pharmacies, determining the first satellite pharmacy is located closest to the first customer base;
filling the one or more maintenance prescription orders at the central pharmacy; and
delivering the one or more filled maintenance prescription orders from the central pharmacy to the first customer base via a first shipment;
wherein the one or more acute prescription orders are filled at the first satellite pharmacy and delivered from the first satellite pharmacy to the first customer base via a second shipment.
2. The computerized method for fulfilling a pharmacy prescription order according to claim 1 further comprising recruiting one or more customer bases by said producer, wherein said producers accrue incentives based on said recruiting.
3. The computerized method for fulfilling a pharmacy prescription order according to claim 2 wherein said incentives derive from the centralized pharmacy's distributing a percentage of profits to said producers based on total sales volume generated from said one or more customer bases.
4. The computerized method for fulfilling a pharmacy prescription order according to claim 2 wherein said incentives further include additional remuneration to a first producer which recruits a second producer or the second producer's customer base.
5. The computerized method for fulfilling a pharmacy prescription order according to claim 1 wherein said customer base is selected from a group consisting of long-term care facilities, hospitals, institutions and private residences.
6. The computerized method for fulfilling a pharmacy prescription order according to claim 1 wherein acute prescription orders are new, short-term medication orders.
7. The computerized method for fulfilling a pharmacy prescription order according to claim 1 wherein acute prescription orders are adjusted medication orders.
8. The computerized method for fulfilling a pharmacy prescription order according to claim 1 wherein maintenance prescription orders are long-term medication orders.
9. The computerized method for fulfilling a pharmacy prescription order according to claim 1 wherein the centralized pharmacy is located within about a one-hour surface traveling time from a shipping service.