Lloyd G Lockerman

US Patent:

20100241446, Sep 23, 2010

Filed:

Mar 23, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/409210

Inventors:

Robert James Eckert - Eighty-Four PA, US
Lloyd Lockerman - Pittsburgh PA, US

Assignee:

McKesson Automation Inc. - Cranberry PA

International Classification:

G06Q 50/00
G09F 3/00
G09F 3/10

US Classification:

705 2, 4029901, 40638

Abstract:

A visibly-coded medication label and an associated method, apparatus and computer program product for providing a visibly-coded medication label are provided. A label having an attachment portion and an informational portion may be provided. The informational portion includes a plurality of regions having different visible indicia, such as different colors. Information may be imprinted upon the informational portion that is related to the medication with which the label is to be associated. At least one region that has visible indicia representative of the associated medication may be identified. At least one of the regions other than the region that has been identified to have visible indicia representative of the associated medication may then be overprinted and at least partially obscured. However, the region that has been identified to have visible indicia representative of the associated medication remains visible following the overprinting.