Patent ID: 11881288
Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
a locator device associated with a medication dispensing machine;
a memory storing instructions; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to:
determine a current device location of the locator device;
determine a care area of patients associated with the current device location;
identify at least one prescribing pattern for a set of physicians associated with the care area;
provide the current device location and the at least one prescribing pattern to a predictive algorithm;
determine an inventory update for the medication dispensing machine based on providing the current device location and the at least one prescribing pattern to the predictive algorithm;
cause, responsive to determining the inventory update, an adjustment to a current inventory of the medication dispensing machine based on the current inventory and the inventory update, and
cause, in connection with causing the adjustment or a delivery or dispense of a respective medication stored in the medication dispensing machine, actuation of an electronic latch associated with a storage location within the medication dispensing machine.