Patent ID: 11908559
Assignee: AERO HEALTHCARE (US), LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method for auditing contents of a medical supply cabinet having a medical supply cabinet identifying radio frequency identification (RFID) tag located thereon and a plurality of medical supply packages, each medical supply package containing a specific medical supply and a medical supply package (RFID) tag identifying the specific medical supply associated with the medical supply package, the method comprising:
reading, with an RFID reader, the medical supply cabinet identifying RFID tag and the medical supply package RFID tags,
wherein each medical supply package comprises a discarded portion having the medical supply package RFID tag thereon,
wherein at least one medical supply package is located in a removable liner of the medical supply cabinet,
wherein the removable liner comprises:
a first side having a plurality of pouches, each pouch configured to store a pouch medical supply of the plurality of medical supplies therein;
a plurality of pouch machine-readable codes, each pouch machine-readable code corresponding to a pouch such that the pouch machine-readable code is obscured when the pouch medical supply is in the pouch and the pouch machine-readable code is machine-readable when the pouch medical supply is removed from the pouch; and

wherein the medical supply cabinet identifying RFID tag is associated with a list of the plurality of medical supply packages configured to be stored in the medical supply cabinet;
reading, with a machine-readable code reader, one or more exposed pouch machine-readable codes;
determining, based upon the read medical supply package RFID tags and the one or more exposed pouch machine-readable codes, a current supply status of the medical supplies in the medical supply cabinet;
determining, based upon the read medical supply cabinet identifying RFID tag, a required supply status of the medical supplies in the medical supply cabinet,
wherein determining the required supply status is further based on comparing one or more medical supply package RFID tags that were not scanned to the list of the plurality of medical supply packages configured to be stored in the medical supply cabinet;
comparing the current supply status of the medical supplies in the medical supply cabinet and the required supply status of the medical supplies in the medical supply cabinet;
determining, based upon the comparing of the current supply status of the medical supplies in the medical supply cabinet and the required supply status of the medical supplies in the medical supply cabinet, one or more needed supplies for the medical supply cabinet;
after replacing the one or more needed supplies in the medical supply cabinet, reading the medical supply cabinet identifying RFID tag and the medical supply package RFID tags to verify that the medical supply cabinet is in compliance with regulations and to determine a revised current supply status of the medical supplies in the medical supply cabinet; and
uploading the revised current supply status of the medical supplies in the medical supply cabinet to a database.