Management of pharmacy kits
AssigneeBluesight, Inc.
InventorsKevin William MacDonald, Timothy James Leo Kress-Spatz
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Abstract
A system for managing pharmacy kits comprises a reading station configured to read tag information from a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags associated with a pharmacy kit, and an information processing system operatively connected to the reading station and configured to receive the tag information from the reading station and determine a status of the pharmacy kit based on the tag information, a plurality of stored templates defining contents to be included in each of a plurality of pharmacy kits, and a plurality of kit records indicating the current contents of a plurality of pharmacy kits.
Claims12
A method, comprising:
- causing an antenna coupled to a pharmacy kit container to emit a radio signal at least within the pharmacy kit container, the pharmacy kit container providing electromagnetic shielding;
- receiving tag information associated with a plurality of RFID tags coupled to a plurality of pharmacy item containers located within a pharmacy kit based at least in part on the antenna emitting the radio signal at least within the pharmacy kit container, wherein the pharmacy kit is a transportable container having a collection of pharmacy items for a common purpose that can be deployed for a specific medical procedure, for a specific physician, or to a designated location,
- wherein the plurality of pharmacy item containers is configured to store a plurality of pharmacy items,
- wherein a particular RFID tag of the plurality of RFID tags is coupled to a particular pharmacy item container of the plurality of pharmacy item containers and the particular pharmacy item container is configured to store a particular pharmacy item of the plurality of pharmacy items;
- verifying the pharmacy kit based at least in part on the received tag information, wherein verifying the pharmacy kit comprises at least one of:
- determining that a first RFID tag associated with a first pharmacy item is not located within the pharmacy kit container, and that a third RFID tag associated with a substitute pharmacy item for the first pharmacy item is located within the pharmacy kit,
- determining that a second pharmacy item associated with a second RFID tag of the plurality of RFID tags is subject to a recall, or
- identifying the second pharmacy item as an expired pharmacy item based at least in part on a determination that an expiration of the second pharmacy item does not satisfy an expiration threshold;
- and
- causing a display to display results of the verifying the pharmacy kit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.