US Patent 11151223 System for life-cycle tracking of therapeutic drugs

A system for lifecycle tracking of drugs provides for medical pumps to provide end of delivery cycle recording of the disposition of drugs, both for drugs that are administered by pump and those administered manually. By introducing drug dispensing identification upstream, for example, at the pharmacy, the invention allows automatic recording of the drug delivery by medical pumps communicating with the central server system. The result is a lifecycle manifest having records linked to a patient that identifies the travel of the drug and delivery of the drug through the medical care system from pharmacy to patient, and identifies discrepancies in drug utilization.