System for dispensing a kit of associated medical items
First Claim
1. A system for providing medical items comprising:
- a dispenser, wherein said dispenser is selectively operative to dispense a of a plurality of medical items stored in the dispenser;
a user terminal, wherein said user terminal includes a display and an input device, wherein said dispenser is in operative connection with said user terminal and said dispenser is operative to dispense medical items responsive to said user terminal;
a data store in operative connection with said user terminal, wherein said data store includes kit data representative of a kit, wherein said kit data comprises data representative of multiple medical items, which items are to be used in a future medical procedure;
wherein said multiple medical items included in said kit are dispensed by said dispenser responsive to an input to said input device of said user terminal.
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Abstract
A system for monitoring and dispensing medical items, includes a data terminal (76) which is connected through a local area network (82) to at least one remote computer (84) including a processor and the data store. The data store includes data representative of medical items which may be stored in dispensing devices (96, 100) or in storage locations external to said dispensing devices. The data store further includes data representative of information concerning patients. The data store further includes information concerning kits which kits include more than one of the available medical items. The items in each kit are used in the course of a medical procedure. A user is enabled to interface with the data terminal to select a patient and a kit for use by the patient. A user is further enabled to dispense items included in a selected kit, and data representative of the taking of the items in the kit for use by the patient is stored in correlated relation with the information concerning the patient in the data store.
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29 Claims
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1. A system for providing medical items comprising:
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a dispenser, wherein said dispenser is selectively operative to dispense a of a plurality of medical items stored in the dispenser; a user terminal, wherein said user terminal includes a display and an input device, wherein said dispenser is in operative connection with said user terminal and said dispenser is operative to dispense medical items responsive to said user terminal; a data store in operative connection with said user terminal, wherein said data store includes kit data representative of a kit, wherein said kit data comprises data representative of multiple medical items, which items are to be used in a future medical procedure; wherein said multiple medical items included in said kit are dispensed by said dispenser responsive to an input to said input device of said user terminal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for providing medical items comprising:
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a data store wherein said data in said data store includes data representative of a kit, wherein said kit comprises multiple medical items expected to be used in the course of a future medical procedure; a user terminal in operative connection with said data store wherein said user terminal includes a display and an input device; wherein said user terminal is operative responsive to said input device to display kit identification data representative of said kit on said display, and wherein data indicative that said multiple medical items included in said kit have been taken by a user is included in the data store in response to an input to the input device. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. A system for providing medical items comprising:
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a dispenser, wherein said dispenser is selectively operable to dispense any of a plurality of medical items stored therein; a user interface, wherein said user interface includes a display and an input device, wherein said dispenser is in operative connection with said user interface and said dispenser is operative to dispense selected medical items responsive to said user interface; a data store in operative connection with said user interface, wherein said data store includes kit data representative of a kit, wherein said kit comprises multiple medical items which items are expected to be used in a future medical procedure; wherein multiple items included in said kit are dispensed by said dispenser responsive to an input corresponding to the kit being input to the input device of said user interface. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29)
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15. A method for providing medical items comprising the steps of:
storing in a data store item data representative of multiple medical items in at least one kit, wherein said multiple medical items in said kit are items to be used in the course of a future medical procedure;
displaying on a display of a user terminal responsive to an input to an input device, item-identifying data representative of the multiple medical items included in said kit.- View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for providing medical items comprising the steps of:
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storing in a data store patient data representative of identities of a first plurality of patients, and kit data representative of a second plurality of medical kits, wherein each of said kit includes at least two (2) medical items, wherein the items included in one kit are items to be used in the course of a future medical procedure; selecting a patient using an input device at a user terminal; selecting the one kit using the input device of the user term; indicating by using said input device of said user term that the medical items included in the one kit have been taken for the selected patient.
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22. A system for providing medical items comprising:
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a dispenser, wherein the dispenser includes a plurality of storage locations and is operative to selectively dispense any of a plurality of different types of medical items stored in the storage locations, wherein different types of medical items are stored in different storage locations in the dispenser prior to dispense; a data store in operative connection with a user terminal, wherein the data store includes kit data representative of a kit, wherein the kit includes at least two different types of medical items to be used in the conduct of one future medical procedure; wherein the medical items comprising the kit are dispensed from the storage locations by the dispenser responsive to a single manual input to the input device of the user terminal.
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23. A system for providing medical items comprising:
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a dispenser, wherein the dispenser is selectively operative to dispense any of a plurality of medical items stored in the dispenser; a user interface, wherein the user interface includes an input device, wherein the dispenser is in operative connection with the input device and the dispenser is operative to dispense medical items responsive to inputs to the input device; a data store in operative connection with the user interface, wherein the data store includes kit data representative of a kit, wherein the kit data includes data representative of multiple medical items to be on hand during the course of performing a future medical procedure; and wherein multiple medical items included in a kit are dispensed by the dispenser responsive to an input to the input device.
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24. A method comprising the steps of:
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placing a plurality of medical items in a dispenser, wherein the dispenser has a plurality of storage locations and wherein different types of medical items are stored in different storage locations prior to dispense from the dispenser; storing in a data store data representative of a kit, wherein the kit data includes data representative of one future medical procedure and at least two different types of medical items desirable to have available for use while performing the one medical procedure; receiving a single manual input through an input device, the input corresponding to the medical procedure, wherein the input device is in operative connection with the dispenser; dispensing the two different types of medical items included in the kit from their respective storage locations in the dispenser in response to the manual input. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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