Recall system and method for RFID medical item tracking system

A medical item recall monitoring method for medical items at one or more medical facilities at which the medical items are consumed and/or distributed to patients, the method comprising:

• associating each of the medical items with stand-off readable tags, wherein the stand-off readable tags encode unique serial numbers that uniquely identify corresponding medical items;
• storing the medical items in medical facilities storage devices at the one or more medical facilities, the medical facilities storage devices reading the stand-off readable tags and reporting the serial numbers read from the stand-off readable tags;
• receiving recall information for the medical items;
• an inventory management system receiving content information including the serial numbers read from the stand-off readable tags concerning the medical items contained in each of the medical facilities storage devices to track each of the medical items uniquely according to the serial numbers of the stand-off readable tags;
• the inventory management system searching an inventory database for medical items matching the recall information and then determining locations of the medical items by reference to the content information that was provided by the medical facilities storage devices based on the reporting of the serial numbers from the stand-off readable tags by the medical facilities storage devices;
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• issuing reports for locations of medical items in the medical facilities storage devices matching the recall information.