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The system for monitoring and dispensing medical items which are dispensed for administration to patients includes a data terminal (76, 338) which is connected through a network (82, 328) to at least one remote computer (84, 324) having a processor and a data store. The system also includes a readin

The system for monitoring and dispensing medical items which are dispensed for administration to patients includes a data terminal (76, 338) which is connected through a network (82, 328) to at least one remote computer (84, 324) having a processor and a data store. The system also includes a reading device (348) which is connected to the network. A user of the data terminal or the reading device is enabled to select a patient for whom medical items will be used, and responsive to a request to dispense items the requested items are dispensed from dispensing devices (96, 100, 344, 346) connected to the data terminal. A report generating device (384) generates reports (388) which include machine readable indicia corresponding to patients and/or medical items. Users may select patients and dispense medications by reading the indicia from the reports using the reading device. Certain storage locations are also labeled with machine readable indicia which may be read to indicate the taking of items therefrom as well as to indicate inventory status information.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A method comprising the steps of:assigning a location designator to each of a plurality of storage locations wherein medical items are stored, each storage location holding a particular type of medical item;applying to each storage location a machine readable indicia uniquely corre

[ We claim:] [1.] A method comprising the steps of:assigning a location designator to each of a plurality of storage locations wherein medical items are stored, each storage location holding a particular type of medical item;applying to each storage location a machine readable indicia uniquely corresponding to the particular location;storing in a data store in operative connection with a computer, data representative of the storage locations and the medical item type stored in each of the storage locations;reading the machine readable indicia at one of said storage locations with a reading device in operative connection with the computer, in response to a quantity condition for medical items in the one storage location;modifying the data in the data store with the computer to include data representative of the quantity condition for the medical items at the one storagelocation responsive to reading the machine readable indicia at the one storage location with the reading device.