Patent ID: 7236936

Claim:
A medical infusion pump having simplified and enhanced security features comprising: a pump housing; a pumping mechanism in the pump housing including electronic controls; a display screen on the pump housing; a manual entry control panel on the pump housing; control software operatively connected to the electronic controls of the pumping mechanism to operate the pumping mechanism according to input infusion data; a bar code reader contained in the pump housing and operatively attached to communicate scanned bar code infusion data to said display screen and to said control software, said bar code reader including means for data capture including capture of an authorized user code, an authorized user ID code; a patient ID code; and infusion operating control data; and the bar code reader further including means for activating the bar code reader to scan for the information to be captured including for an authorized user code, for an authorized user ID code, for a patient ID code, and for medicinal infusion operating data including intended patient ID data; and means for automatically confirming a match of the scanned authorization code to an acceptable authorization code and for confirming a match of the scanned patient ID code to the intended patient ID in the scanned medicinal infusion data before operating the infusion pump according to said medicinal infusion data; and a display and control program connected to the bar code reader and the display panel to display the scanned infusion data and requiring manual entry by the authorized user to validate the displayed medicinal infusion data prior to activating said pump mechanism to infuse medicines according to said scanned infusion data.