System and method for tracking medical products in a two bin per medical product replenishment system

• US 8,113,424 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2009
• Issued: 02/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LOGI D Incorporated
• Original Assignee: LOGI D Incorporated
• Inventors: Philippe, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): WALSH, DANIEL I
• Application Number:
  US12/578,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20110084135A1
• Time in Patent Office: 853 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/385, 235/435, 235/450, 235/451, 235/487, 235/492, 235/493, 705/22, 705/28, 340/5.92, 340/572.1
• US Class Current: 235/385
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/203 Inventory monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

The present relates to a system and method for tracking medical products in a two bin per medical product replenishment system. The system and method comprising storing medical product information including lot number and date of receipt, and recording replenishment requests and generated date. The system and method further correlate the date of receipt of the medical product having the particular medical product information with the generated date of recorded replenishment requests to identify probable corresponding replenishment requests. Also, the system and method correlate identified probable corresponding replenishment requests with location information of corresponding RFID tags to determine corresponding probable locations.

Claims

1. A system for tracking medical products in a two bin per medical product replenishment system, comprising:

two bins per medical product, wherein each of the two bins is operable to hold quantities of the medical product;

a central unit for linking unique Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) tags to corresponding location, bin and medical product;

at least one provisioning board for generating a provisioning request upon application of one of the unique RFID tags;

a medical product unit for storing medical product information including lot number and date of receipt;

an RFID tag activity unit for recording previous replenishment requests and generated dates of those replenishment requests; and

an analysis unit for determining probable current locations of a particular medical product in the two bin per medical product replenishment system in response to receipt of a tracking request for the particular medical product, the analysis unit correlating the date of receipt of the particular medical product with the generated date of the previously recorded replenishment requests to identify probable corresponding replenishment requests that might have been filled by the particular medical product, the analysis unit further correlating the identified probable corresponding replenishment requests with the location information of the corresponding RFID tag in the central unit to determine corresponding probable current locations for that particular medical product; and

a patient activity unit for recording patient identity, location and date of treatment; and

wherein;

the analysis unit further determines probable patients to which the particular medical product having a particular product information has been administered by further correlating the corresponding probable location and date of the corresponding replenishment requests with date of treatment of the patient activity unit to determine probable patients to which the medical product has been administered.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the medical product unit further stores an expiration date.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the analysis unit determines the probable location of the particular medical product having a particular lot number.

4. The system of claim 2 wherein the analysis unit determines the probable location of particular medical products having a lapsed expiration date.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the analysis unit further generates a report of the probable locations.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the analysis unit is further adapted for querying the medical product unit and the RFID tag activity unit.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the analysis unit is further adapted for querying the medical product unit, the RFID tag activity unit and the patient activity unit.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the analysis unit determines probable patients to which the medical product having a particular lot number has been administered.

9. A method of tracking medical products in a two bin per medical product replenishment system, comprising:

placing quantities of medical products into each of two bins associated with the medical product;

linking unique Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) tags to corresponding location, bin and medical product;

generating a provisioning request upon application of one of the unique RFID tags;

electronically storing medical product information including lot number and date of receipt;

electronically recording previous replenishment requests and generated dates of those replenishment requests;

electronically receiving a tracking request for a particular medical product having a medical product information of interest;

electronically correlating the date of receipt of the particular medical with the previously recorded generated date of recorded replenishment requests to identify probable corresponding replenishment requests that might have been filled by the particular medical product;

electronically correlating the identified probable corresponding replenishment requests with the location information of the corresponding RFID tag in the central unit to determine corresponding probable current locations for that particular medical product;

electronically recording patient activity, the patient activity including identity, location and date of treatment; and

electronically correlating the corresponding probable location and date of the corresponding replenishment requests with stored date of treatment to determine probable patients to which the particular medical product having the medical product information of interest has possibly been administered.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the medical product information further includes an expiration date.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the medical product information of interest is a particular lot number.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the medical product information is a lapsed expiration date.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein the medical product information of interest is a lot number.