Patent ID: 7263410

Claim:
A method comprising: a) receiving via a terminal at least one user input selecting a medical supply audit, wherein the terminal is in operative connection with at least one medical item holding cabinet, wherein medical items stored in the at least one cabinet are taken from the at least one cabinet by authorized users for use in treatment of patients, and wherein users provide taking inputs to the terminal corresponding to taking medical items from the at least one cabinet, and wherein at least one processor in operative connection with the terminal is operative responsive to the taking inputs to record in at least one data store, data corresponding to medical items taken for patients and data corresponding to a plurality of quantities of each of a plurality of medical items stored in the at least one cabinet; b) during the audit selected in (a), receiving at least one item identifying user input associated with a medical item stored in the at least one cabinet through the terminal; c) during the audit selected in (a) and responsive to (b), based on data in the at least one data store, providing at least one output through at least one output device, wherein the at least one output includes both indicia corresponding to at least one storage location where the medical item associated with the at least one item identifying input received in (b) is stored in the at least one cabinet, and indicia corresponding to a quantity of the medical item that is indicated as stored in the at least one storage location.