Patient medication dispensing and associated record
First Claim
1. An electronic medication dispensing and accounting system for use in nurse car facilities to ensure correlation of doctor prescribed medication with individual patients and provide a running account of all medications dispensed to patients, comprising:
- a digital computer having a monitoring means coupled thereto;
a computer access panel;
mobile unit means including a compartmentalized medication containing enclosure supporting said computer and a source of electrical energy;
circuit means including a plurality of data I/O channels coupling the access panel to the computer;
a plurality of medication container means in said mobile unit means including a plurality of upwardly open containers disposed in rows along the X and Y axes of an X, Y and Z axes rectangular Cartesian coordinate system;
gantry-like carriage means including mobile means movable along the respective X, Y and Z axes of the Cartesian coordinates;
pressure reduction means supported by the Z axis mobile means for moving medication from a selected said open container to a predetermined release position in response to software generated signals operating in conformance with manually supplied preprogrammed input data; and
,medication monitoring means connecting said motor driven mobile means with said circuit means.
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Abstract
In a nurse administered medication dispensing system a mobile cart contains a plurality of doctor prescribed medication in accordance with a like plurality of patients scheduled to receive such medication. The medication containers stored in the cart is accessible by the nurse only in response to a patient ID code entered by the nurse into the keyboard of a cart supported microprocessor including a software program responding to the input code energizing mechanical components which obtains the medication from an onboard supply and transfers it to a specified nurse accessible cubicle or which releases secured medication dispensing units on or in the cart and records the time, date and quantity of medication dispensed.
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5 Claims
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1. An electronic medication dispensing and accounting system for use in nurse car facilities to ensure correlation of doctor prescribed medication with individual patients and provide a running account of all medications dispensed to patients, comprising:
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a digital computer having a monitoring means coupled thereto; a computer access panel; mobile unit means including a compartmentalized medication containing enclosure supporting said computer and a source of electrical energy; circuit means including a plurality of data I/O channels coupling the access panel to the computer; a plurality of medication container means in said mobile unit means including a plurality of upwardly open containers disposed in rows along the X and Y axes of an X, Y and Z axes rectangular Cartesian coordinate system; gantry-like carriage means including mobile means movable along the respective X, Y and Z axes of the Cartesian coordinates; pressure reduction means supported by the Z axis mobile means for moving medication from a selected said open container to a predetermined release position in response to software generated signals operating in conformance with manually supplied preprogrammed input data; and
,medication monitoring means connecting said motor driven mobile means with said circuit means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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