Patent ID: 6985870

Claim:
A medication delivery system capable of communicating and matching prescribed medication data from a first label on a medication container holding the medication and patient data from a second label on a tag adapted to be worn by a patient wherein the first label also containing instruction of delivering the medication, and the medication and patient data being provided in machine readable formats, the medication delivery system comprising: (a) a medical device in communication with the medication container, the medical device adapted to delivering the medication from the container to the patient, the medical device having a data port for receiving information; and (b) a handheld computing device having means for reading the prescribed medication data and the patient data and comparing the data to confirm a match between the medication data and patient data, the handheld computing device having a transmitter capable of transmitting the medication delivery instruction from the handheld computing device to the medical device wherein the medical device is adapted to deliver the medication to the patient according to the instructions.