A medication safety system includes a panel mounted to an IV pole above amulti- channel infusion pump also mounted to the IV pole. The panel includesmultiple RFID readers for reading the RFID tags placed on each of themedication containers mounted to the panel. The pump includes a controllerthat communicates with the RFID readers at the panel to receive theinformation read by the RFID readers and automatically program the respectivepump channel. A verification program verifies that the medication deliveryinformation from the containers matches the patient identified for the pumpand the programming parameters of the pump fall within acceptable ranges. Inanother aspect, the panel contains multiple vibration devices to impartvibrations to the medication of each of the containers mounted to the panel.Those vibrations are sensed by the particular pumping channel to confirm thatthe correct channel has been programmed for that medication. When theclinician opens the door of the pumping channel, the pump may requestinformation from the RFID reader at the panel for that medication and may waitfor receipt of the vibrations in the medication of the tubing mounted into thechannel.
