Intelligent medical material cart
First Claim
1. A system for monitoring, control and containment of medical products in a health care facility, comprising:
- an intelligent medical material cart comprising an enclosed medical container, wherein said medical container comprises a plurality of receptacles for storing a plurality of medical products;
an interactive intelligence module integrated with said intelligent medical material cart for performing intelligent drug monitoring, control and administration, comprising;
a position determination unit for determining the physical coordinates of the intelligent medical material cart;
a central control device for controlling access of the medical products into the medical container and for tracking the movement of said medical products in and out of the medical container;
a timing module for maintaining prescribed schedules for drug administration of patients;
a tracking module for recording the time of movements of said medical products, in and out of said medical container; and
a correlating and inferring unit for determining whether a particular medical product removed from the intelligent medical material cart to be administered to a patient has an adverse interaction with other drugs previously administered or to be administered to the patient.a radio frequency identification module for generating a radio frequency identification field in and around the medical container, wherein the radio frequency identification field is used for tracking radio frequency identification tagged medical products in the medical container; and
an alarm controlled by said intelligence module that enunciates when a failure is detected in the medical product administration and containment.
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Abstract
A method and system is disclosed for monitoring, control and containment of medical product in a healthcare facility. The physical coordinates of the intelligent medical material cart (IMMC) within the healthcare facility are determined. Based on the physical coordinates of the IMMC, the room and the identity of the patient being operated within the room are determined. The electronic medical records of the identified patient are accessed. The IMMC is accessed by the healthcare staff for the medical product stored within the IMMC. The IMMC determines the identity of the medical product that has been removed from the IMMC based on radio frequency identification (RFID) mechanism. The IMMC also determines the effect of interaction of the drugs on the patient, by referring to the medical profile of the patient in the electronic medical records. An alarm is set off if an adverse interaction of medical product is anticipated.
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1. A system for monitoring, control and containment of medical products in a health care facility, comprising:
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an intelligent medical material cart comprising an enclosed medical container, wherein said medical container comprises a plurality of receptacles for storing a plurality of medical products; an interactive intelligence module integrated with said intelligent medical material cart for performing intelligent drug monitoring, control and administration, comprising; a position determination unit for determining the physical coordinates of the intelligent medical material cart; a central control device for controlling access of the medical products into the medical container and for tracking the movement of said medical products in and out of the medical container; a timing module for maintaining prescribed schedules for drug administration of patients; a tracking module for recording the time of movements of said medical products, in and out of said medical container; and a correlating and inferring unit for determining whether a particular medical product removed from the intelligent medical material cart to be administered to a patient has an adverse interaction with other drugs previously administered or to be administered to the patient. a radio frequency identification module for generating a radio frequency identification field in and around the medical container, wherein the radio frequency identification field is used for tracking radio frequency identification tagged medical products in the medical container; and an alarm controlled by said intelligence module that enunciates when a failure is detected in the medical product administration and containment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of monitoring, control and containment of medical materials in a health care facility comprises the steps of:
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determining the physical coordinates of a intelligent medical material cart using a position determination unit; determining the room and the identity of the patient within said room based on said physical coordinates of said intelligent medical material cart using position determination unit within the health care facility; accessing the electronic medical records of the identified patient from a medical database; providing medical products stored within said intelligent medical material cart to the patient, wherein if a medical product is removed from the medical container, the intelligent medical material cart determines the identity of the medical product that has been removed based on radio frequency identification mechanism, and records the time at which the medical product is removed from the intelligent medical material cart; determining the effect of the interaction of drugs on the patient, based on said identity of medical product removed, the time of removal of the medical product and the pharmacopoeia in the medical database with reference to the medical profile of the patient in said electronic medical records; displaying said effect of the interaction of the medical product; and enunciating an alarm if an adverse interaction of the medical product is anticipated. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A computer program product comprising computer executable instructions embodied in a computer-readable medium, said computer program product comprising:
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a first computer parsable program code for determining the physical coordinates of a intelligent medical material cart using a position determination unit; a second computer parsable program code for determining the room, and determining the identity of the patient in said room based on said physical coordinates of said intelligent medical material cart using position determination unit within the hospital; a third computer parsable program code for accessing the electronic medical records of the identified patient from a medical database; a fourth computer parsable program code for providing medical product to the patient stored within said intelligent medical material cart, wherein if a medical product is removed from the medical container, the intelligent medical material cart determines the identity of the medical product that has been removed based on radio frequency identification mechanism, and records the time at which a medical product is removed from the intelligent medical material cart; a fifth computer parsable program code for determining the effect of the interaction of the medical product on the patient, based on said identity of medical product removed and the time of removal of the medical product with reference to the medical profile of the patient in said electronic medical records; a sixth computer parsable program code for displaying said effect of the interaction of medical product; and a seventh computer parsable program code for setting off an alarm if an adverse interaction of medical product is anticipated.
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