Patent ID: 9684766
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G06K,G16H

Claim:
1. A method for encoding a medical item received at a healthcare facility with an RFID tag for identifying and tracking the received medical item while in the healthcare facility, comprising: receiving the medical item having a name and a characteristic related to safety of use of the medical item; storing information about the received medical item, including the name and the characteristic in a computer-readable database located in a non-volatile memory; attaching a blank RFID tag to the medical item, the RFID tag having a serial number; after the blank RFID tag has been attached to the medical item, reading the blank RFID tag while attached to the medical item to obtain the serial number of the RFID tag; and associating the serial number read from the RFID tag when it was attached to the medical item to the name and characteristic related to safety in the database thereby uniquely identifying that medical item with the RFID tag serial number.