Patent ID: 8403224
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: A61J,A61M,G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method for tracking drugs during a transfer and administering process, wherein a drug is transferred from a storage container to a drug delivery container, the storage container having thereon a set of one or more storage-container-associated machine-readable indicia identifying the drug, the method comprising: a) accessing storage containers containing different respective drugs at a point of care of a patient to prepare one or more drug delivery containers, the respective drug delivery containers requiring a set of one or more drug delivery container associated indicia, yet to be prepared, corresponding, respectively, to the storage-container-associated machine-readable indicia identifying the respective drugs; b) preparing a drug delivery container to contain a drug next designated for transfer to a drug delivery container by: wherein the point of care of the patient is a medical care delivery location configured for immediate administration of drugs to the patient in response to a need of the patient, and wherein, at the time of preparing the designated next drug delivery container to contain said drug transferred from the storage container, only the set of one of more drug-delivery-container-associated indicia identifying said drug, prepared in step b)(ii), is at hand for application to the designated next drug delivery container to which said drug is transferred.