Management of pharmacy kits
A system for managing pharmacy kits comprises a reading station configured to read tag information from a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags associated with a pharmacy kit, and an information processing system operatively connected to the reading station and configured to receive the tag information from the reading station and determine a status of the pharmacy kit based on the tag information, a plurality of stored templates defining contents to be included in each of a plurality of pharmacy kits, and a plurality of kit records indicating the current contents of a plurality of pharmacy kits.
1. A system for managing pharmacy items, the system comprising one or more processors configured to:
receive a request for a location of one or more pharmacy kits comprising at least one of a pharmacy item that is expired or a pharmacy item that is subject to a recall,
wherein each of the one or more pharmacy kits is a transportable container having a collection of pharmacy items for a common purpose that can be deployed for a specific medical procedure, for a specific physician, or to a designated location,
wherein each of the one or more pharmacy kits comprises a plurality of pharmacy item containers configured to store the collection of pharmacy items, wherein an RFID tag is coupled to each of the plurality of pharmacy item containers;
search pharmacy item data stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the pharmacy item data indicates an association between the plurality of pharmacy item containers and the plurality of RFID tags, and wherein the pharmacy item data comprises:
at least one of a pharmacy item container identifier or a pharmacy item identifier for each of the plurality of pharmacy item containers,
a location identifier for each the plurality of pharmacy item containers, and
a unique identifier for each of the plurality of RFID tags;
identify, based at least in part on the search, one or more locations of the one or more pharmacy kits based at least in part on a location of each of the one or more pharmacy item containers of the plurality of pharmacy item containers that store the at least one of the pharmacy item that is expired or the pharmacy item that is subject to a recall; and
generate a report indicating the one or more locations of the one or more pharmacy kits.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
based at least in part on receipt of the request, cause a plurality of RFID reading stations to scan a different set of RFID tags of the plurality of RFID tags, wherein each RFID reading station of the plurality of RFID reading stations comprises an RFID reader and an antenna, wherein the antenna is configured to interrogate RFID tags to receive tag data;
receive location data corresponding to at least one of a location of a particular RFID reading station or a location of an interrogated RFID tag;
receive the tag data, wherein the tag data comprises data indicative of the unique identifier for each of the interrogated RFID tags; and
update at least some of the pharmacy item data stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium based on at least one of the location data or the tag data.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the pharmacy item data further comprises an expiration identifier associated with each pharmacy item container, wherein the expiration identifier is indicative of an expiration date of the pharmacy item stored in a particular pharmacy item container.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein to identify the one or more locations, the one or more processors are further configured to determine that a date associated with each expiration identifier is later than a particular date.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to identify a set of recalled pharmacy items.
6. A method for managing pharmacy items, the method comprising:
receiving a request for a location of one or more pharmacy items that are expired or subject to recall;
identifying, from pharmacy item data stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, a group of pharmacy item containers that include at least one of a pharmacy item that is expired or a pharmacy item that is subject to recall, wherein the group of pharmacy item containers is part of a collection of pharmacy item containers, wherein the collection of pharmacy item containers comprises a plurality of pharmacy items, wherein an RFID tag is coupled to each pharmacy item container of the collection of pharmacy item containers, wherein the pharmacy item data associates the collection of pharmacy item containers with the plurality of RFID tags;
identifying, from the pharmacy item data, a location of one or more pharmacy kits that include one or more pharmacy item containers of the group of pharmacy item containers, wherein the one or more pharmacy kits are part of a collection of pharmacy kits, wherein each pharmacy kit of the collection of pharmacy kits is a transportable container having a collection of pharmacy items for a common purpose that can be deployed for a specific medical procedure, for a specific physician, or to a designated location, wherein the pharmacy item data associates the collection of pharmacy kits with the collection of pharmacy item containers, and wherein the pharmacy item data indicates locations of the collection of pharmacy kits; and
generating a report indicating the location of each of the one or more pharmacy kits.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
based at least in part on receipt of the request, causing two or more RFID reading stations to scan a different set of RFID tags of the plurality of RFID tags, wherein each RFID reading station of the two or more RFID reading stations comprises an RFID reader and an antenna, wherein the antenna is configured to interrogate RFID tags to receive tag data;
receiving location data corresponding to at least one of a location of a particular RFID reading station or a location of an interrogated RFID tag;
receiving the tag data, wherein the tag data comprises data indicative of a unique identifier for each of the interrogated RFID tags; and
updating at least some of the pharmacy item data stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium based on the location data or the tag data.
8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the pharmacy item data further comprises expiration identifiers associated with each pharmacy item container, wherein a particular expiration identifier corresponding to a particular pharmacy item container is indicative of an expiration date of a pharmacy item stored in the particular pharmacy item container.
9. The method of claim 6 , further comprising identifying a set of recalled pharmacy items.
10. The method of claim 6 , wherein said receiving the request for the location of one or more pharmacy items that are expired or subject to recall comprises receiving a request for a location of a pharmacy item that is expired.
11. The method of claim 6 , said receiving the request for the location of one or more pharmacy items that are expired or subject to recall comprises receiving a request for a location of a pharmacy item that is subject to the recall.
12. The method of claim 6 , wherein the pharmacy item data further comprises at least one of a brand name, an item name, an NDC identifier, a lot number, medicine strength, medicine concentration, or an expiration date corresponding to each pharmacy item stored in the plurality of pharmacy item containers.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the pharmacy item data further comprises at least one of a brand name, an item name, an NDC identifier, a lot number, medicine strength, medicine concentration, or an expiration date corresponding to each pharmacy item stored in the plurality of pharmacy item containers.