Patent ID: 8113424

Claim:
A system for tracking medical products in a two bin per medical product replenishment system, comprising: two bins per medical product, wherein each of the two bins is operable to hold quantities of the medical product; a central unit for linking unique Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) tags to corresponding location, bin and medical product; at least one provisioning board for generating a provisioning request upon application of one of the unique RFID tags; a medical product unit for storing medical product information including lot number and date of receipt; an RFID tag activity unit for recording previous replenishment requests and generated dates of those replenishment requests; and an analysis unit for determining probable current locations of a particular medical product in the two bin per medical product replenishment system in response to receipt of a tracking request for the particular medical product, the analysis unit correlating the date of receipt of the particular medical product with the generated date of the previously recorded replenishment requests to identify probable corresponding replenishment requests that might have been filled by the particular medical product, the analysis unit further correlating the identified probable corresponding replenishment requests with the location information of the corresponding RFID tag in the central unit to determine corresponding probable current locations for that particular medical product; and a patient activity unit for recording patient identity, location and date of treatment; and wherein: the analysis unit further determines probable patients to which the particular medical product having a particular product information has been administered by further correlating the corresponding probable location and date of the corresponding replenishment requests with date of treatment of the patient activity unit to determine probable patients to which the medical product has been administered.