Medication validation system and related methods

Abstract

A medication validation system may include a camera to capture an image of a medication container that may have physical container characteristics associated therewith and a computer-readable indicia affixed thereon. A validation server may obtain stored medication physical container characteristics and associated stored computer-readable indicia, and obtain image data associated with the image from the camera. The image data may be representative of the physical container characteristics of the medication container. The validation server may determine the physical container characteristics of the medication container from the obtained image data, and determine the computer-readable indicia from the obtained image data. The validation server may also determine whether the medication container is mislabeled based upon an attempted matching of both of the stored and obtained medication container characteristics and the stored and obtained computer-readable indicia indicative that the medication container is mislabeled, and communicate a notification that the medication container is mislabeled.