Cary J Breese

US Patent:

20190392935, Dec 26, 2019

Filed:

Jan 17, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/249899

Inventors:

CARY JAMES BREESE - laguna niguel CA, US
SUMEET SHEOKAND - sunyvale CA, US

International Classification:

G16H 20/13
G06N 20/00
G06N 3/02

Abstract:

In one aspect, a computerized method for optimizing medication processing, dispensing and delivery using opportunistic refill opportunities in a geographic region in an automated medication refill system includes the step of obtaining an ordinary refill queue for a set of customers for a specified current time period. The ordinary refill queue comprises a list of medications to be automatically filled and delivered during the specified current time period. The method includes the step of determining a delivery location for each customer in the ordinary prescription refill queue of an automated medication refill system. The method includes the step of identifying a geographic region that includes each customer in the ordinary medication refill queue. The method includes the step of identifying a set of opportunistic refill customers in the geographic region, wherein an opportunistic refill opportunity comprises a future medication refill that is set to be refilled in a specified future time period. The method includes the step of determining a delivery location for each opportunistic refill customer that is in the geographic region. The method includes the step of changing the status of the refill processing and dispensing from the specified future time period to the specified current time period. The method includes the step of determining an optimized processing, dispensing and route for delivery of the medications to each customer in the ordinary refill queue to each opportunistic refill customers in the geographic region.