Patent ID: 8005688

Claim:
A system for managing information relating to the delivery of medication to a patient, comprising a medication order data base in which medication orders for patients are stored and each order is assigned a unique identifier; a computer in communication with the medication order data base and adapted to process the medication orders stored in the database; a medical transaction carrier having: a memory for storing medication order information including medication orders; a patient specific asset configured for physically interacting with a patient, and having: a communication device to communicate with the medical transaction carrier; a memory adapted to store medication order information received from the medical transaction carrier; and a processor adapted to: compare medication order information stored in the memory of the patient specific asset to medication order information retrieved from the medical transaction carrier to validate the retrieved medical order information; to communicate through the communication device to the medical transaction carrier that the medication order was received by the patient specific asset; to continue to communicate to each medical transaction carrier that a medication order resides in the memory until the medical transaction carrier includes a cleared indicator from the computer; and wherein the computer is configured to compare medication order information stored in the operably connected memory to medication order information communicated from the medical transaction carrier to validate the communicated medication order information; wherein the medical transaction carrier is configured to establish a first communication link, send a query to, and receive a response from the patient specific asset when the medical transaction carrier is within a first predetermined distance of the patient specific asset and the medical transaction carrier is configured to establish a second communication link with the computer when the medical transaction carrier is within a second predetermined distance of the computer; wherein the patient specific asset is configured to create a plurality of unique transaction IDs; and wherein the patient specific asset is configured to create a new log of transactions if no current log of past transactions is pending for clearance and to mark for deletion any past transactions pending for clearance.