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US 12,514,770 B2Granted
Medical technology station and method of use
AssigneeCapsa Solutions LLC
InventorsRobert Volek, Jack Finnerty, Jin Chen, Krzysztof Sosniak, Marcel Ipince, Charles Pfeiffer, Adam Piotrowski, Harry Tan
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Abstract
A medical station includes a cassette system provided at a moveable cart. The cassette system includes locking drawers and sensors, each associated with one of the locking drawers. A computer system provided at the moveable cart includes an input device. The computer system receives data from the sensors to determine a position of each of the drawers and prevent a second one of the drawers from moving into an opened position when a first one of the drawers is in the opened position.
Claims17
A medical 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 and including computer memory in communication with the processor, said computer memory comprising patient identifiers stored in association with drawer identifiers;
- a housing mounted on the cart;
- at least one portable cassette system removably coupled to the housing, the cassette system comprising:
- a cassette frame defining an interior divided into compartments;
- drawers, each occupying, and being slidably positioned in, at least one of the compartments, said drawers including medication drawers and at least one storage drawer;
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- sensors, each associated with one of the medication drawers;
- each of the compartments having an actuator associated therewith in communication with the processor and associated with an actuator latch that is movable in response to operation of the associated actuator;
- each of the drawers having at least one drawer latch, and each of the drawers capable of moving from a locked and closed position to an unlocked position in response to movement from the associated actuator latch;
- wherein the computer system is configured to:
- receive data from the input device identifying a particular patient;
- receive data from said sensors to determine a position of each of the medication drawers;
- query the computer memory with the data received from the input device to identify a specific one of the medication drawer identifiers associated with a specific one of the patient identifiers corresponding to the data received from the input device;
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- exert operative control over the actuators to permit access exclusively to a specific one of the medication drawers associated with the specific one of the drawer identifiers and prevent a second one of the medication drawers from movement into an opened position while the data from said sensors indicates that the specific one of the medication drawers is in the opened position, unless the computer system receives, from the input device, an authenticated, electronic command comprising one or more of:
- an override command, an administrator access command, or a pharmacy access command, and allow access to any of the at least one storage drawer upon user request regardless of the position of the medication drawers.
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A medical station comprising:
- a movable cart;
- a cassette system provided at said moveable cart and comprising a plurality of locking medication drawers, each comprising a drawer latch, and at least one storage drawer;
- a series of sensors provided at the cassette system, each of the medication drawers being associated with one of the series of sensors;
- and
- a computer system provided at the moveable cart and comprising or in electronic communication with an input device and one or more non-transitory electronic storage devices comprising patient identifiers stored in association with drawer identifiers, wherein said computer system is in electronic communication with said plurality of sensors, and wherein said computer system is configured to:
- receive data from the sensors to determine a position of each of the medication drawers;
- receive data from the input device identifying a particular patient;
- query the one or more non-transitory electronic storage devices with the data received from the input device to identify a respective one of the drawer identifiers associated with a respective one of the patient identifiers corresponding to the data received from the input device;
- operate said cassette system to unlock only a respective one of the medication drawers corresponding to the respective one of the drawer identifiers;
- operatively control said drawer latches to only unlock the respective one of the medication drawers corresponding to the respective one of the drawer identifiers such that a remainder of the drawers remain locked while data from the sensors indicates that the respective one of the medication drawers is in the opened position, and allow access to any of the at least one storage drawer upon user regardless of the position of the medication drawers.
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A medical station comprising:
- a movable cart;
- a cassette system provided at said moveable cart and comprising medication drawers and one or more storage drawers, each of the drawers being lockable and comprising a drawer latch;
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- a computer system provided at the moveable cart and comprising or in electronic communication with an input device and one or more non-transitory electronic storage devices comprising patient identifiers stored in association with drawer identifiers for the medication drawers, wherein said computer system is configured to:
- receive data from the input device identifying a particular patient;
- query the one or more non-transitory electronic storage devices with the data received from the input device to identify a respective one of the drawer identifiers associated with a respective one of the patient identifiers corresponding to the data received from the input device;
- operate said cassette system to unlock only a respective one of the medication drawers corresponding to the respective one of the drawer identifiers;
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- operatively control said drawer latches to only unlock the respective one of the medication drawers corresponding to the respective one of the drawer identifiers such that a remainder of the medication drawers normally remain locked, and allow access to any of the one or more storage drawers upon user request regardless of the position of the medication drawers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.