Patent ID: 8239062

Claim:
A system for identifying discontinued medications from a patient-specific bin, the system comprising: a dispensing device of a healthcare facility, the dispensing device including one or more patient-specific bins assigned to a patient for exclusive storage of medications for the patient; and a central server computer system, communicatively coupled to the dispensing device; and configured to: determine that the patient is to be transferred from an area associated with the dispensing device, the determination triggering removal of discontinued medications associated with the patient; identify medications stored in the one or more patient-specific bins assigned to the patient; identify a medication order associated with the patient; automatically identify, in response to the determination that the patient is to be transferred, a first subset of the identified medications discontinued according to the medication order; transmit a set of data directing removal of the identified medications from the one or more patient-specific bins; identify one or more return locations for the subset of discontinued medications; and transmit the identified return locations to the dispensing device.