Patent ID: 8355929

Claim:
A system for storing medical supplies comprising: a storage unit comprising a plurality of compartments configured to store medical supplies; a database configured to store physical location rules specific to storing medical supplies among the plurality of compartments so as to reduce a likelihood of at least one of incorrectly storing and incorrectly retrieving the medical supplies among the plurality of compartments, wherein the physical location rules comprise at least one of: storing, in non-contiguous compartments from among the plurality of compartments or different areas of the storage unit, at least one of: look-alike medical supplies, sound-alike medical supplies, a medical supply with multiple strengths, a medical supply with multiple concentrations, or a medical supply with multiple sizes; and restricting a specific medical supply to storage in a subset of the plurality of compartments; an organizational unit configured to: analyze a current physical location arrangement of medical supplies among the plurality of compartments of the storage unit; determine a new physical location arrangement of the medical supplies within the plurality of compartments of the storage unit based on the rules specific to storing medical supplies; and provide a warning for display based on at least one of a harm index, a medical supply having multiple strengths, a medical supply having multiple concentrations, a medical supply having multiple sizes, a look-alike medical supply, a sound-alike medical supply, or a patient characteristic; and an indicator configured to indicate physical locations within the storage unit to store the medical supplies among the plurality of compartments based on the determined physical arrangement.