Mobile point of care system and associated method and computer program product

A mobile point-of-care system comprising:

• one or more wireless, mobile point-of-care carts;
• one or more patient-specific drawers capable of being carried by said carts, wherein each patient-specific drawer comprises a memory device capable of being read while onboard said cart to identify a patient associated with said patient-specific drawer;
• and
• a tracking system for identifying the location of each of said carts such that the location of each of said patient-specific drawers is capable of being identified.

A method of routing a medication delivery person throughout a hospital for delivering and removing medications from one or more mobile point-of-care carts, said method comprising:

• receiving registration data corresponding with respective mobile point-of-care carts, said registration data indicating one or more patient-specific drawers registered to respective mobile point-of-care carts;
• receiving tracking data corresponding with respective mobile point-of-care carts, said tracking data capable of being used to determine a location associated with respective mobile point-of-care carts;
• determining, based on said registration data and said tracking data, a location associated with each patient-specific drawer;
• and
• generating a medication delivery route based at least in part on said location associated with each patient-specific drawer.

A computer program product for routing a medication delivery person throughout a hospital for delivering and removing medications from one or more mobile point-of-care carts, wherein the computer program product comprises at least one computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program portions comprising:

• a first executable portion for receiving registration data corresponding with respective mobile point-of-care carts, said registration data indicating one or more patient-specific drawers registered to respective mobile point-of-care carts;
• a second executable portion for receiving tracking data corresponding with respective mobile point-of-care carts, said tracking data capable of being used to determine a location associated with respective mobile point-of-care carts;
• a third executable portion for determining, based on said registration data and said tracking data, a location associated with each patient-specific drawer;
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• a fourth executable portion for generating a medication delivery route based at least in part on said location associated with each patient-specific drawer.