Medication order processing and reconciliation
AssigneeCareFusion 303, Inc.
InventorRichard M. Batch
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Abstract
A system and method for managing medication orders, including changes to those orders, is described. A server receives medication orders from a pharmacy and communicates those orders to an infusion pump. The infusion pump communicates status messages to the server and the server compares the status messages to the medication orders to determine if the there were any changes to the order, or if a medication was administered absent a medication order. The server assigns a new order identification number to the status message if needed. The system may also reconcile original medication orders with information associated with a new order identification number and stores the information in the eMAR of a patient.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory including executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- receive a first medication identification entered into a user interface of an infusion device associated with a patient;
- verify that a first medication associated with the first medication identification is associated with the patient;
- automatically program, responsive to the verifying, operation of the infusion device to administer the first medication to the patient by way of automatic download of configuration parameters associated with the first medication;
- receive, after the programming via the user interface, a second medication identification associated with a second medication provided by the infusion device;
- determine that the second medication is not associated with the patient;
- responsive to determining that the second medication is not associated with the patient:
- generate a new order identifier for the second medication;
- and
- update an electronic record associated with the patient to reflect the new order identifier for the second medication identification;
- receive, while the infusion device is administering the second medication to the patient, delivery status messages associated with the administering of the second medication;
- and
- update the electronic record with information from the delivery status messages.
A machine-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a first medication identification entered into a user interface of an infusion device associated with a patient;
- verifying that a first medication associated with the first medication identification is associated with the patient;
- automatically program, responsive to the verifying, operation of the infusion device to administer the first medication to the patient by way of automatic download of configuration parameters associated with the first medication;
- receiving, after the programming via the user interface, a second medication identification associated with a second medication provided by the infusion device;
- determining that the second medication is not associated with the patient;
- responsive to determining that the second medication is not associated with the patient:
- generate a new order identifier for the second medication;
- and
- updating an electronic record associated with the patient to reflect the new order identifier for the second medication identification;
- receiving, while the infusion device is administering the second medication to the patient, delivery status messages associated with the administering of the second medication;
- and
- updating the electronic record with information from the delivery status messages.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a first medication identification entered into a user interface of an infusion device associated with a patient;
- verifying that a first medication associated with the first medication identification is associated with the patient;
- automatically program responsive to the verifying, operation of the infusion device to administer the first medication to the patient by way of automatic download of configuration parameters associated with the first medication;
- receiving, after the programming via the user interface, a second medication identification associated with a second medication provided by the infusion device;
- determining that the second medication is not associated with the patient;
- responsive to determining that the second medication is not associated with the patient:
- generate a new order identifier for the second medication;
- and
- updating an electronic record associated with the patient to reflect the new order identifier for the second medication identification;
- receiving, while the infusion device is administering the second medication to the patient, delivery status messages associated with the administering of the second medication;
- and
- updating the electronic record with information from the delivery status messages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.