Dynamic critical access override for medication dispensing apparatuses

• US 9,195,802 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2012
• Issued: 11/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Henderson, Todd Reed, Gromowsky, Mark David, Meisel, Jonathan Dion, Mortimer, John Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): COLLINS, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US13/401,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20130218329A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,372 Days
• Field of Search: 700/237, 700/240
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0092 for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles medical dispensers for private use, A61J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers

Abstract

A critical access override list may be generated dynamically based on patient profile information for a single patient or a group of patients. A single patient or group of patients is initially identified. Patient profile information for the patient or group of patients is accessed. The patient profile information is analyzed, and medications are selected for critical access override. The selected medications are added to a critical access override list available to a medication dispensing apparatus to provide quicker access to the medications for emergency situation purposes via critical access override dispensing in which fewer steps are performed than normal medication dispensing events.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform operations comprising:

identifying a group of patients, wherein identifying the group of patients comprises identifying patients corresponding with a medication dispensing apparatus;

accessing patient profile information for each patient from the group of patients;

analyzing the patient profile information to predict one or more medications that may be needed in an emergency situation for any patient from the group of patients;

selecting, based on analyzing the patient profile information, the one or more medications to allow for critical access override dispensing from a medication dispensing apparatus; and

generating a critical access override list for the group of patients based on the one or more medications to allow for critical access override dispensing of the one or more medications on the critical access override list without requiring all steps required for a typical medication dispensing event from the medication dispensing apparatus.

2. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the patient profile information is stored locally on the medication dispensing apparatus.

3. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the patient profile information is stored in an electronic medical record for each patient from the group of patients stored in a central data store remote from the medication dispensing apparatus.

4. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

accessing the critical access override list during a medication dispensing event; and

dispensing a medication from the personalized critical access override list using a critical access override.

5. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the one or more medications are selected and added to the critical access override list in a background process independent of any medication dispensing event and the personalized critical access override list is stored.

6. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein the one or more medications are selected and added to the critical access override list during a medication dispensing event for a patient from the group of patients.

7. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein adding the one or more medications to the critical access override list comprises adding the one or more medications to a standard critical access override list with one or more other medications to create the critical access override list.

8. The one or more computer storage media of claim 7, wherein the one or more other medications in the standard critical access override list are standard for one selected from the following:

a healthcare facility, a care unit, and a medication dispensing apparatus.

9. The one or more computer storage media of claim 1, wherein adding the one or more medications to the critical access override list comprises generating a new critical access override list for the group of patients.

10. A computer-implemented method for dynamically determining medications for a critical access override list for a group of patients, the method comprising:

identifying, as a first computing process, a group of patients, wherein identifying the group of patients comprises identifying patients corresponding with a medication dispensing apparatus;

accessing, as a second computing process, patient profile information for each patient from the group of patients from an electronic data store;

analyzing, as a third computing process, the patient profile information to predict one or more medications that may be needed in an emergency situation for any patient from the group of patients;

selecting, as a fourth computing process, based on analyzing the patient profile information, the one or more medications for critical access override dispensing from a medication dispensing apparatus; and

generating, as a fifth computing process, a critical access override list for the group of patients that allows for critical access override dispensing of the one or more medications without requiring all steps required for a typical medication dispensing event from the medication dispensing apparatus;

wherein the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth computing processes are performed by one or more computing devices.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein identifying the group of patients further comprises:

identifying a clinician; and

identifying patients corresponding with the medication dispensing apparatus and being treated by the identified clinician as the group of patients.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the critical access override list is specific to the clinician and provided when the clinician accesses a medication dispensing apparatus.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the critical access override list is generated in response to the clinician accessing a medication dispensing apparatus.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the critical access override list is generated in a background process independent of any medication dispensing event and the critical access override list is stored.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the patients corresponding with medication dispensing apparatus are manually identified by a clinician entering information to manually associate the patients with the medication dispensing apparatus.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the patients corresponding with medication dispensing apparatus are automatically identified by at least one selected from the following:

automatically determining patients in proximity to the medication dispensing apparatus; and

automatically determining patients being serviced by the medication dispensing apparatus.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises providing the critical access override list when any clinician accesses the medication dispensing apparatus.

18. A system for providing dynamic critical access override lists for medication dispensing, the system including one or more processors and comprising:

a patient identification component for identifying a group of patients by identifying patients corresponding with a medication dispensing apparatus;

a patient profile information accessing component for accessing patient profile information for the group of patients;

a dynamic medication selection component for analyzing the patient profile information to predict one or more medications that may be needed in an emergency situation for any patient from the group of patients and for selecting one or more medications for critical access override based on analyzing the patient profile information; and

a critical access override list component for generating a critical access override list based on the one or more medications selected by the dynamic medication selection component to allow for critical access override dispensing of the one or more medications on the critical access override list without requiring all steps required for a typical medication dispensing event from the medication dispensing apparatus.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the system is located on a medication dispensing apparatus computing device operable to control dispensing of medications from a corresponding medication dispensing apparatus.