Medical technology station and method of use

A station comprising:

• a movable cart;
• a computer system comprising an input device, a display device, and a processor, the computer system positioned on the cart;
• computer memory in communication with the processor;
• a housing mounted on the cart;
• at least one portable cassette system removably coupled to the housing;
• wherein the processor is in electronic communication with the input device, the display device, and the cassette system;
• and
• wherein the cassette system further comprises a cassette frame, the cassette frame defining an interior divided into compartments, the cassette system further comprising;
• a) at least one drawer, each drawer occupying and being slidably positioned in at least one of the compartments, whereby the at least one of the compartments occupied by a drawer defines the drawer's position in the cassette frame and each drawer further comprising an electronically readable identifier tag containing a unique drawer identifier;
• b) an electronic reader associated with each drawer and configured to read the identifier tags;
• c) each compartment having an actuator associated therewith in communication with the processor, each actuator associated with an actuator latch that is movable in response to operation of the associated actuator;
• d) each drawer having one of the actuators associated therewith, each drawer is capable of moving from a locked and closed position to an unlocked and almost closed position in response to movement from the associated actuator latch;
• whereby each compartment is associated with at least one of the electronic readers and whereby the computer system is configured to identify the position of each drawer in the cassette frame based on the position of the electronic reader associated with each drawer and the unique identifier for each drawer;
• whereby in response to a drawer open command, the electrical actuator associated with a specific drawer actuates to thereby move the associated actuator latch, moving the specific drawer from the locked and closed position to the unlocked and almost closed position;
• and
• whereby the computer system is configured to automatically close and lock the specific drawer from the almost closed position if the specific drawer remains in the almost closed position for a selected period of time.