MEDICATION DELIVERY SYSTEM

摘要

A medication delivery system (20) having features of the present invention comprises a medical container (26) holding a prescribed medication (27) to b e delivered to a patient, a tag 24 adapted to be worn by the patient, a handhe ld computing device (22), and an electronic medication delivery device (30). Da ta on the medication (27) is contained in a first label (28) on the medication container (27). The first label (28) also contains the instruction on how th e medication is delivered to the patient, including the appropriate settings f or an electronic medication delivery device for delivering the medication to th e patient. Patient data is contained in a second label (29) on the tag (24) wo rn by the patient. The medication data, medication delivery instruction, and patient data are provided in machine readable formats. The handheld computin g device (22) reads the medication data and the medication delivery instructio n on the medication container (26) and the patient data on the patient tag (24 ). The handheld computing device (22) stores the information obtained and performs a matching check to confirm that the medication data matches with tthe patient data. Upon a confirmed match, it transmits the medication delivery instruction to the electronic medication delivery device (30), whic h downloads the instruction, prorams the delivery device 30, and prompts an operator to begin delivering the medication (27) to the patient according to the downloaded instruction.