Patent ID: 8131397

Claim:
A system for determining selected items from a medication order to be reordered, the system comprising: a dispensing device of a plurality of dispensing devices at a healthcare facility, the dispensing device including: one or more patient-specific bins assigned for exclusive use to a patient of a plurality of patients; and one or more item-specific bins each allocated for an item available to be used by the plurality of patients; and a central server computer system, communicatively coupled to the dispensing device, and configured to: receive an active medication order for the patient; receive a future medication order for the patient; compare the active medication order to a listing of medications stored in the one or more item-specific bins at the dispensing device to determine a subset of items of the active medication order to be stored in the one or more patient-specific bins at the device; automatically identify, for at least one of the items of the subset, a reorder level triggering reorder of respective items; determine, for each of the at least one of the items, whether the one or more patient-specific bins for the patient at the device are at or below the identified reorder levels; and determine, based on the active medication order and the future medication order, a target level for one or more items determined to be at or below the identified reorder levels, the target level identifying a quantity of the one or more items to store in the one or more patient-specific bins.