Patent ID: 8287818

Claim:
A system for monitoring compliance with an order for a specimen, comprising: a specimen container comprising a machine readable wireless tag; the tag containing specimen container characteristic information; a device having data input and output capacity, processing circuitry, memory circuitry and an executable program for analysis of data transmitted from the tag; a machine readable wireless reader in data communication with the tag and the device; a display disposed on the device or the reader, wherein said specimen container characteristic information is selected from the group consisting of: a specimen container type, container identification information, weight of the container when empty, weight of the container containing a volume of specimen, opacity of the container and opacity of the container containing a volume of specimen; wherein the specimen container characteristic information further comprises patient identification information identifying a patient whose specimen is to be contained in the specimen container, a test to be performed on the specimen, or an amount of specimen required; and wherein said system further comprises a patient identification badge having an attached radio frequency identification tag operable with said wireless reader.