MARTUCCI, JAMES,BUI, TUAN,HITCHCOCK, JAMES,DIGIANFILIPPO, ALEANDRO,PIERCE, RICHARD
申请号：
CA2473004
公开号：
CA2473004C
申请日:
2002.12.05
申请国别(地区):
CA
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
A medication delivery system (20) having features of the present inventioncomprises a medical container (26) holding a prescribed medication (27) to bedelivered to a patient, a tag 24 adapted to be worn by the patient, a handheldcomputing device (22), and an electronic medication delivery device (30). Dataon the medication (27) is contained in a first label (28) on the medicationcontainer (27). The first label (28) also contains the instruction on how themedication is delivered to the patient, including the appropriate settings foran electronic medication delivery device for delivering the medication to thepatient. Patient data is contained in a second label (29) on the tag (24) wornby the patient. The medication data, medication delivery instruction, andpatient data are provided in machine readable formats. The handheld computingdevice (22) reads the medication data and the medication delivery instructionon the medication container (26) and the patient data on the patient tag (24).The handheld computing device (22) stores the information obtained andperforms a matching check to confirm that the medication data matches withtthe patient data. Upon a confirmed match, it transmits the medicationdelivery instruction to the electronic medication delivery device (30), whichdownloads the instruction, prorams the delivery device 30, and prompts anoperator to begin delivering the medication (27) to the patient according tothe downloaded instruction.
