An administration system (10) for administering medication (25) to peoples
the system comprising: a medicine cabinet (20) to contain a plurality of
medication (25), each medication (25) identified by at least one radio
frequency identification (RFID) tag (26); at Feast one RFID reader (40)
to monitor the storage and removal of medication (25) from the medicine
cabinet (20); a database (70) to store information related to the
medication (25); an alert module (35) to provide an alert to the person
if incorrect medication (25) have been removed from the medicine cabinet
(20) or if correct medication (25) have not been removed from the
medicine cabinet (20) at the correct time, wherein the information stored
by the database (70) includes any one from the group consisting of:
contraindications combination of medication (25) which may be safely
taken, allergic reactions of medication (25), the recommended dosage for
each medication (25), the administration schedule for each medication
(25), and expiry date of each medication (25).