System for dispensing a kit of associated medical items

A system for providing medical items comprising:

• a dispenser, wherein said dispenser is selectively operable to dispense any of a plurality of medical items stored therein;
• a user interface, wherein said user interface includes a display and an input device, wherein said dispenser is in operative connection with said user interface and said dispenser is operative to dispense selected medical items responsive to said user interface;
• a data store in operative connection with said user interface, wherein said data store includes kit data representative of a kit, wherein said kit comprises multiple medical items which items are expected to be used in a future medical procedure;
• wherein multiple items included in said kit are dispensed by said dispenser responsive to an input corresponding to the kit being input to the input device of said user interface.

A method for providing medical items comprising the steps of:

• storing in a data store patient data representative of identities of a first plurality of patients, and kit data representative of a second plurality of medical kits, wherein each of said kit includes at least two (2) medical items, wherein the items included in one kit are items to be used in the course of a future medical procedure;
• selecting a patient using an input device at a user terminal;
• selecting the one kit using the input device of the user term;
• indicating by using said input device of said user term that the medical items included in the one kit have been taken for the selected patient.

A system for providing medical items comprising:

• a dispenser, wherein the dispenser is selectively operative to dispense any of a plurality of medical items stored in the dispenser;
• a user interface, wherein the user interface includes an input device, wherein the dispenser is in operative connection with the input device and the dispenser is operative to dispense medical items responsive to inputs to the input device;
• a data store in operative connection with the user interface, wherein the data store includes kit data representative of a kit, wherein the kit data includes data representative of multiple medical items to be on hand during the course of performing a future medical procedure;
• and
• wherein multiple medical items included in a kit are dispensed by the dispenser responsive to an input to the input device.

A method comprising the steps of:

• placing a plurality of medical items in a dispenser, wherein the dispenser has a plurality of storage locations and wherein different types of medical items are stored in different storage locations prior to dispense from the dispenser;
• storing in a data store data representative of a kit, wherein the kit data includes data representative of one future medical procedure and at least two different types of medical items desirable to have available for use while performing the one medical procedure;
• receiving a single manual input through an input device, the input corresponding to the medical procedure, wherein the input device is in operative connection with the dispenser;
• dispensing the two different types of medical items included in the kit from their respective storage locations in the dispenser in response to the manual input.