Medical supply cabinet with medical supply contents having machine readable codes
AssigneeAero Healthcare (US), LLC
InventorTimothy John Ovenden
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Abstract
A medical supply cabinet includes a housing; a medical supply cabinet identifying machine readable code located on the housing; and a plurality of medical supply packages, each medical supply package containing a specific medical supply. Each medical supply package includes a discarded portion created when the medical supply package is opened. The discarded portion of the medical supply package includes a medical supply package machine readable code identifying the specific medical supply associated with the medical supply package.
Claims20
A method for auditing medical supplies, comprising:
- providing a medical supply cabinet, comprising:
- at least one storage area for storing a plurality of medical supply packages in a predetermined location within the at least one storage area,
- wherein the at least one storage area comprises a cabinet storage volume,
- wherein each of the plurality of medical supply packages comprises a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag identifying a medical supply within the medical supply package,
- wherein at least one of the plurality of medical supply packages comprises the RFID tag on a removable portion of the medical supply package such that the RFID tag is not scanned by an RFID reader when the removable portion is removed;
- and
- an inventory machine-readable code associated with a list of the plurality of medical supply packages configured to be stored in the medical supply cabinet;
- a door having a liner removably attached thereto, the liner configured to store a subset of the plurality of medical supply packages,
- wherein the liner comprises a plurality of pouches, each pouch configured to store a medical supply of the subset of the plurality of medical supply packages,
- wherein the liner further comprises a first plurality of machine-readable codes, each of the first plurality of machine-readable codes located on the liner in a position corresponding to a pouch such that a machine-readable code is optically obscured by the medical supply when the medical supply is in the pouch and is optically machine-readable when the medical supply is removed from the pouch, and
- wherein the liner further comprises a second plurality of machine-readable codes on a second side of the liner, each of the second plurality of machine-readable codes in a location corresponding to a medical supply package configured to be stored in the cabinet storage volume;
- determining, based on a first RFID scan of the plurality of medical supply packages made by the RFID reader, a current supply status of the medical supply cabinet;
- determining, based on a second scan of the inventory machine-readable code, the list of the plurality of medical supply packages configured to be stored in the medical supply cabinet;
- determining, based on a comparison of the current supply status to the list of the plurality of medical supply packages configured to be stored in the medical supply cabinet, one or more needed supplies for the medical supply cabinet;
- causing display of a user interface comprising an affordance actuatable to initiate a re-ordering of the one or more needed supplies for the medical supply cabinet;
- and
- responsive to receiving actuation of the affordance, initiating the re-ordering of the one or more needed supplies for the medical supply cabinet.
A system for auditing medical supplies, comprising:
- a medical supply cabinet for storing a plurality of medical supplies, comprising:
- a cabinet storage volume for storing a first subset of the plurality of medical supplies;
- and
- a door having a liner removably attachable to the door, the liner configured to store a second subset of the plurality of medical supplies,
- wherein the liner comprises a plurality of pouches, each pouch configured to store a medical supply of the second subset of the plurality of medical supplies,
- wherein each of the plurality of medical supplies is configured to be stored in a preassigned location in the medical supply cabinet, and
- wherein each medical supply comprises a medical supply radio frequency identification (RFID) tag on a removable portion of packaging for the medical supply;
- a cabinet quick-response (QR) code located on the medical supply cabinet, the cabinet QR code indicating the plurality of medical supplies configured to be stored in the medical supply cabinet;
- a plurality of machine-readable codes located within the medical supply cabinet, each machine-readable code in a first location associated with the preassigned location of a first corresponding medical supply,
- wherein the liner further comprises a first subset of the plurality of machine-readable codes, each of the first subset of the plurality of machine-readable codes located on the liner in a position corresponding to a pouch such that each machine-readable code is optically obscured by a corresponding medical supply when the corresponding medical supply is in the pouch and is optically machine-readable when the corresponding medical supply is removed from the pouch, and
- wherein the liner further comprises a second subset of the plurality of machine-readable codes on a second side of the liner, each of the second subset of the plurality of machine-readable codes in a location corresponding to a corresponding medical supply package configured to be stored in the cabinet storage volume;
- at least one scanner configured to perform a scan of the medical supply RFID tag on each of the plurality of medical supplies in the medical supply cabinet, the cabinet QR code, and the plurality of machine-readable codes;
- and
- a user interface configured to:
- display a status for each of the medical supplies configured to be stored in the medical supply cabinet,
- wherein the status comprises at least one of:
- a missing status, an expired status, or a present status;
- and
- display an affordance actuatable to initiate the scan of the plurality of medical supplies in the medical supply cabinet.
A method for auditing medical supply storages, comprising:
- providing a medical supply storage for storing a plurality of medical supply packages, comprising:
- a cabinet storage volume for storing a first subset of the plurality of medical supply packages;
- and
- a door having a liner removably attachable to the door, the liner configured to store a second subset of the plurality of medical supply packages,
- wherein the liner comprises a plurality of pouches, each pouch configured to store a medical supply package of the second subset of the plurality of medical supply packages,
- wherein the liner further comprises a first subset of a plurality of machine-readable codes, each of the first subset of the plurality of machine-readable codes located on the liner in a position corresponding to a pouch such that a machine-readable code is optically obscured by the medical supply package when the medical supply package is in the pouch and is optically machine-readable when the medical supply package is removed from the pouch, and
- wherein the liner further comprises a second subset of the plurality of machine-readable codes on a second side of the liner, each of the second subset of the plurality of machine-readable codes in a location corresponding to a medical supply package configured to be stored in the cabinet storage volume;
- reading, using a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader, a plurality of package RFID tags associated with the plurality of medical supply packages,
- wherein at least one of the plurality of medical supply packages comprises the RFID tag on a removable portion such that the RFID tag is not scanned by an RFID reader when the removable portion is removed;
- determining, based on the reading, a status for each of the plurality of medical supply packages,
- wherein the status is at least one of a missing status, a present status, or an expired status;
- reading, using a second reader, a storage quick-response (QR) code located on the medical supply storage to determine a required supply status of the medical supply storage,
- wherein the storage QR code indicates the plurality of medical supply packages required to be stored in the medical supply storage;
- determining, based on the status for each of the plurality of medical supply packages and the required supply status of the medical supply storage, one or more needed supplies for the medical supply storage;
- causing display of, on an interface device associated with the second reader, the one or more needed supplies for the medical supply storage;
- and
- responsive to receiving actuation of an activation area on the interface device, automatically requisitioning the one or more needed supplies for the medical supply storage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.