Patent ID: 8150709

Claim:
An integrated point of care medication administration system, comprising: at least one repository of information associating individual medications of a plurality of different medications with data identifying patient parameters and laboratory test results to be acquired and recorded prior to administration of an individual medication to a patient and identifying data sources for providing corresponding particular patient parameters and laboratory test results, said at least one repository of information associating specimen acquisition usage conditions with an individual medication enabling generation of an alert to a user that a laboratory test result may be invalid because said date and time of acquisition exceeds a limit set by said acquisition usage conditions; a specimen collection information system providing data indicating a date and time of acquisition of a specimen used for a laboratory test; and a point of care medication administration system including, an interface for communicating with said at least one repository and said sources, a processor for using said information and said interface in automatically acquiring for a particular patient data representing particular patient parameters and laboratory test results associated with a particular individual medication in response to user initiation of an order for said particular individual medication to be administered to said particular patient and a display device for presenting at least one display image indicating acquired particular patient parameters and laboratory test results of said particular patient and identifying a particular patient parameter or laboratory test result needing to be acquired prior to administration of said particular individual medication to said particular patient.