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US 10,380,543 B2Granted
System and method for pharmaceutical management and tracking
AssigneeAmerisourcebergen Specialty Group
InventorDale Danilewitz
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Abstract
A product inventory management system including a cabinet configured to contain an inventory of product units having RFID tags and further configured to monitor the inventory by wirelessly detecting the RFID tags, and a server system configured to communicate over a network with the cabinet, the server system capable of managing the inventory of the cabinet. There is also a method for product inventory management, including receiving, in a server system and via a network, inventory data from a cabinet, the inventory data corresponding to an inventory of product units stored in the cabinet, and generating an order to have additional product units added to the cabinet according to the cabinet inventory.
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A product inventory management system comprising:
- a cabinet configured to contain a plurality of pharmaceutical product units having radio frequency identifier (RFID) tags, the cabinet further configured to monitor the pharmaceutical product units by wirelessly detecting the RFID tags;
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- a server system configured to communicate over a network with the cabinet, the server system configured to manage contents of the cabinet, the server system configured to initiate an order to have additional pharmaceutical product units added to the cabinet according to a current inventory list for the cabinet;
- wherein the pharmaceutical product units in the cabinet include consignment pharmaceutical product units,
- wherein the server system is configured to (i) maintain one or more of the pharmaceutical product units on the current inventory list for at least a predetermined time period after removal of the one or more pharmaceutical product units from the cabinet, and (ii) remove the one or more pharmaceutical product units from the current inventory list following an expiration of at least the predetermined time period after the removal of the one or more pharmaceutical product units from the cabinet, and
- wherein the server system is configured to create an invoice in response to removal of at least one of the pharmaceutical product units from the current inventory list.
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A product inventory management system comprising:
- a first cabinet and a second cabinet, wherein each cabinet is configured to contain a plurality of pharmaceutical product units having radio frequency identifier (RFID) tags, each cabinet further configured to monitor the pharmaceutical product units in that cabinet by wirelessly detecting the RFID tags;
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- a server system configured to communicate over a network with the first cabinet and the second cabinet, the server system configured to manage contents of at least one of the first cabinet and the second cabinet, the server system configured to create an order to have additional pharmaceutical product units added to the at least one cabinet according to a current inventory list for the at least one cabinet,
- wherein the pharmaceutical product units in the at least one of the first cabinet and the second cabinet include consignment pharmaceutical product units,
- wherein the server system is configured to (i) maintain one or more of the pharmaceutical product units on the current inventory list for at least a predetermined time period after removal of the one or more pharmaceutical product units from the at least one cabinet, and (ii) remove the one or more pharmaceutical product units from the current inventory list following an expiration of at least the predetermined time period after the removal of the one or more pharmaceutical product units from the at least one cabinet, and
- the server system is configured to create an invoice in response to removal of at least one of the pharmaceutical product units from the current inventory list.
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A product inventory management system comprising:
- a cabinet configured to contain a plurality of pharmaceutical product units on consignment, each of the plurality of consignment pharmaceutical product units having a radio frequency identifier (RFID) tag, the cabinet further configured to monitor the consignment pharmaceutical product units by wirelessly detecting the RFID tags;
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- at least one server configured to communicate over a network with the cabinet, the at least one server configured to manage contents of the cabinet, the at least one server configured to create an order to have additional consignment pharmaceutical product units added to the cabinet according to a current inventory list for the cabinet,
- wherein the at least one server is configured to (i) determine when at least a predetermined time period has elapsed following removal of a first of the consignment pharmaceutical product units from the cabinet, and (ii) identify the first consignment pharmaceutical product unit as consumed for invoicing following expiration of at least the predetermined time period after the first consignment pharmaceutical product unit is removed from the cabinet.
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A product inventory management system comprising:
- a first cabinet and a second cabinet, wherein the first cabinet is configured to contain a first plurality of pharmaceutical product units on consignment and the second cabinet is configured to contain a second plurality of pharmaceutical product units on consignment, each consignment pharmaceutical product unit of the first and second plurality of consignment pharmaceutical product units having a radio frequency identifier (RFID) tag, the first cabinet configured to monitor the first plurality of consignment pharmaceutical product units by wirelessly detecting the RFID tags of the first plurality of consignment pharmaceutical product units and the second cabinet configured to monitor the second plurality of consignment pharmaceutical product units by wirelessly detecting the RFID tags of the second plurality of consignment pharmaceutical product units;
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- at least one server configured to communicate over a network with the first cabinet and the second cabinet, the at least one server configured to manage contents of the first cabinet based on a first current inventory list and contents of the second cabinet based on a second current inventory list, the at least one server configured to create an order to have additional consignment pharmaceutical product units added to at least one of the first and second cabinets according to at least one of the first and second current inventory lists,
- wherein the at least one server is configured to (i) determine when at least a predetermined time period has elapsed following removal of a specified one of the first plurality of consignment pharmaceutical product units from the first cabinet, and (ii) identify the specified consignment pharmaceutical product unit as consumed for invoicing following expiration of at least the predetermined time period after the specified consignment pharmaceutical product unit is removed from the first cabinet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.