Systems and Methods for Managing Inventory for Health Care Offices
First Claim
1. A method performed by a computing system to manage inventory for a health care office, comprising:
- obtaining a digital schedule of future health care procedures, the digital schedule identifying a date for each procedure;
computing an amount of a product that will be consumed by comparing each procedure against a corresponding procedure profile obtained from a procedure profile database, each procedure profile including product usage information of products expected to be consumed in a given procedure, the product usage information including a product identifier of the product and a corresponding quantity of the product;
computing how many days later from a current date that a number of currently available units of the product in an inventory of the health care office will run out based on the computed amount of the product that will be consumed in the future;
determining a date of when to order replacement units of the product and a quantity of replacement units of the product based on at least the predicted number of days later from the current date that the currently available units of the product in the inventory will run out; and
providing a graphical user interface to order the replacement units by the determined date and for the determined quantity.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided to manage inventory of products used in health care practices and organizations. The systems include tools to track inventory, purchase inventory and to predict how much inventory will be used. The method includes obtaining a schedule of future health care procedures. The method predicts an amount of a product that will be consumed by comparing each procedure against a corresponding procedure profile obtained from a procedure profile database. Each procedure profile includes product usage information of products expected to be consumed in a given procedure. This information is then used to predict when orders for replacement units of the product should be placed, to prevent insufficient supply of the product for a scheduled procedure. A graphical user interface is presented to order the replacement units by a determined date and for a determined quantity. Vendors interact with the system to sell the products.
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17 Claims
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1. A method performed by a computing system to manage inventory for a health care office, comprising:
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obtaining a digital schedule of future health care procedures, the digital schedule identifying a date for each procedure; computing an amount of a product that will be consumed by comparing each procedure against a corresponding procedure profile obtained from a procedure profile database, each procedure profile including product usage information of products expected to be consumed in a given procedure, the product usage information including a product identifier of the product and a corresponding quantity of the product; computing how many days later from a current date that a number of currently available units of the product in an inventory of the health care office will run out based on the computed amount of the product that will be consumed in the future; determining a date of when to order replacement units of the product and a quantity of replacement units of the product based on at least the predicted number of days later from the current date that the currently available units of the product in the inventory will run out; and providing a graphical user interface to order the replacement units by the determined date and for the determined quantity.
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2. A computing system configured to manage inventory for a health care office, comprising:
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a processor; a communication device; a memory configured to store a procedure profile database, each procedure profile in the procedure profile database including product usage information of products expected to be consumed in a given procedure; and wherein the processor is configured to execute instructions to at least; obtain a digital schedule of future health care procedures, the digital schedule identifying a date for each procedure; compute an amount of a product that will be consumed by comparing each procedure against a corresponding procedure profile obtained from the procedure profile database, the product usage information of at least one or more of procedure profiles including a product identifier of the product and a corresponding quantity of the product; compute how many days later from a current date that a number of currently available units of the product in an inventory of the health care office will run out based on the computed amount of the product that will be consumed in the future; determine a date of when to order replacement units of the product and a quantity of replacement units of the product based on at least the predicted number of days later from the current date that the currently available units of the product in the inventory will run out; and provide a graphical user interface to order the replacement units by the determined date and for the determined quantity.
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3. A server system for managing inventory comprising:
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memory storing databases, including a product database, an order database, and an inventory database; a communication device able to communicate over Internet with one or more user devices and one or more vendor computing device; and one or more processors configured to execute instructions to at least; generate and transmit a graphical user interface (GUI) via the communication device that is displayable on a given user device, the GUI comprising a product listed in the product database; receive via the communication device a command using the GUI to order the product; generate an order entry in the order database for the product, the order entry including an ordered quantity of the product, a tracking number and an order status, the order entry accessible to a given vendor computing device; receive via the communication device a message able to be transmitted by the given vendor computing device, the message comprising a shipped status associated with the tracking number; access the order database to update the order entry to have a received status; and access and automatically update the inventory database to have an updated quantity of the product in inventory that includes the ordered quantity of the product. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method performed by at least a user device comprising:
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a communication system on the user device receiving data regarding inventory that is stored in an inventory database on a server; displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising the data on a display screen of the user device; receiving, via the GUI, an input to activate a scanning device; the scanning device scanning a tag or an object to obtained scanned data; transmitting the scanned data via the communication system and, in response, receiving product data corresponding to the scanned data; and receiving, via the GUI, an input to modify an entry in the inventory database in relation to the product data. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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