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US 11,907,902 B2Granted
Management of pharmacy kits using multiple acceptance criteria for pharmacy kit segments
AssigneeBluesight, Inc.
InventorsKevin William MacDonald, David Mario Pedra, Timothy James Leo Kress-Spatz, Christian Lee Doyle, Eric Brody
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Abstract
A pharmacy kit is managed by defining multiple rules for determining whether a segment of a pharmacy kit is satisfactorily stocked, selecting at least one rule among the multiple rules according to a kit stocking contingency, an prompting a user to stock the segment of the pharmacy kit according to the selected at least one rule.
Claims20
A method of managing a pharmacy kit, comprising:
- causing an antenna coupled to a pharmacy kit container to emit a radio signal at least within the pharmacy kit container;
- receiving, in response to the antenna emitting the radio signal, a plurality of unique identifiers corresponding to a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags located within the pharmacy kit container, the plurality of RFID tags coupled to a plurality of pharmacy item containers configured to store different groups of a pharmacy item,
- wherein the pharmacy kit container provides electromagnetic shielding,
- wherein a first RFID tag of the plurality of RFID tags is coupled to a first pharmacy item container of the plurality of pharmacy item containers, and
- wherein the first RFID tag is associated with a first pharmacy data of a first pharmacy item, the first pharmacy data comprising at least an identifier of the first pharmacy item and a concentration of the first pharmacy item;
- determining whether a kit stocking contingency has occurred with respect to a segment of the pharmacy kit based at least in part on the received plurality of unique identifiers, wherein the segment identifies a pharmacy item that forms at least a portion of the pharmacy kit and a pharmacy item concentration for the pharmacy item;
- based at least in part on a determination that the kit stocking contingency has not occurred, comparing the pharmacy item data associated with the plurality of RFID tags with the segment to determine whether at least one pharmacy item container of the plurality of pharmacy item containers stores the pharmacy item at the pharmacy item concentration identified by the segment;
- based at least in part on a determination that the kit stocking contingency has occurred, comparing the pharmacy item data associated with the plurality of RFID tags with the segment to determine whether the at least one pharmacy item container stores the pharmacy item at a substitute pharmacy item concentration;
- and
- causing a display to display information regarding at least one of whether the segment has been satisfactorily stocked with the pharmacy item at the pharmacy item concentration identified by the segment or whether the segment has been satisfactorily stocked with the pharmacy item at the substitute pharmacy item concentration.
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A system, comprising:
- a reading station, comprising:
- a pharmacy kit container formed of a material designed to provide electromagnetic shielding, and
- an antenna coupled to the pharmacy kit container;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
- receive, in response to the antenna emitting a radio signal, a plurality of unique identifiers corresponding to a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags located within the pharmacy kit container, the plurality of RFID tags coupled to a plurality of pharmacy item containers configured to store different groups of a pharmacy item,
- wherein a first RFID tag of the plurality of RFID tags is coupled to a first pharmacy item container of the plurality of pharmacy item containers, and
- wherein the first RFID tag is associated with a first pharmacy data of a first pharmacy item, the first pharmacy data comprising at least an identifier of the first pharmacy item and a concentration of the first pharmacy item;
- determine whether a kit stocking contingency has occurred with respect to a segment of the pharmacy kit based at least in part on the received plurality of unique identifiers, wherein the segment identifies a pharmacy item that forms at least a portion of the pharmacy kit and a pharmacy item concentration for the pharmacy item;
- based at least in part on a determination that the kit stocking contingency has not occurred, compare the pharmacy item data associated with the plurality of RFID tags with the segment to determine whether at least one pharmacy item container of the plurality of pharmacy item containers stores the pharmacy item at the pharmacy item concentration identified by the segment;
- based at least in part on a determination that the kit stocking contingency has occurred, compare the pharmacy item data associated with the plurality of RFID tags with the segment to determine whether the at least one pharmacy item container stores the pharmacy item at a substitute pharmacy item concentration;
- and
- cause a display to display information regarding at least one of whether the segment has been satisfactorily stocked with the pharmacy item at the pharmacy item concentration identified by the segment or whether the segment has been satisfactorily stocked with the pharmacy item at the substitute pharmacy item concentration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.