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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2008
Jean-claude Saghbini, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jean-Claude Saghbini, Cambridge, MA (US);
WaveMark, Inc., Littleton, MA (US);
Abstract
A medical item recall system for medical items at one or more medical facilities at which the medical items are consumed and/or distributed to patients provides each of the medical items has stand-off readable tags, such as RFID tags. The system comprises medical facilities storage devices at the one or more medical facilities containing medical items, the medical items being identified via the stand-off readable tags and associated with individual medical facilities storage devices. The system further comprises an inventory management system that receives recall information for the medical items, receives content information concerning the medical items contained in each of the medical facilities storage devices, and issues reports for locations of medical items matching the recall information.