Electronic medication compliance monitoring system and associated methods
AssigneeetectRx, Inc.
InventorsNeil R. Euliano, Brent A. Myers, Jose C. Principe, Venkata V. Meka, Glen Flores
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Abstract
A system and method for monitoring a patient's compliance with a medication regimen includes an electronic tag integral with or attached to a medicine delivery device such as a capsule, the tag having an antenna and a receiver/transmitter, the system also including a reader positioned externally for detecting the presence and location of the delivery device in the patient.
Claims20
An electronic system for monitoring a patient's ingestion of an ingestible delivery device, the electronic system comprising:
- an ingestible delivery device;
- an electronic circuit associated with the ingestible delivery device and configured to generate and transmit one or more radio frequency signals to indicate the ingestion of the delivery device;
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- an electronic reader positioned externally to the patient and configured to receive one or more radio frequency signals from the electronic circuit.
An ingestible electronic system for tracking ingested medication in a patient's body, the ingestible electronic system comprising:
- an electrically insulated substrate;
- an electronic circuit fitted to the substrate and configured to generate and transmit one or more signals in accordance with a plurality of programmable data fields, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of programmable data fields are configured to facilitate at least a detection of a status of the delivery device within the patient's body;
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- an antenna disposed across the substrate and electrically coupled to the electronic circuit for transmitting the one or more signals.
A method for monitoring a patient's compliance with a medication program, the method comprising:
- positioning an electronic reader externally to a patient;
- providing to a patient a medicine delivery device comprising an electronic circuit;
- having the patient ingest the medicine delivery device;
- transmitting, by the electronic circuit to the electronic reader, one or more radio frequency signals that are generated after the patient ingests the medicine delivery device;
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- connecting at least one remote device to the electronic reader, wherein the at least one remote device is configured to receive the one or more radio frequency signals from the electronic reader and generate data indicative of the patient's compliance with the medication program based at least on the one or more radio frequency signals.
The method of claim15, further comprising:
- receiving and differentiating, by the electronic reader, multiple radio frequency signals from multiple electronic circuits that are within the patient's body and are simultaneously communicating with the electronic reader.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by the computing device, information relating to a medicine delivery device from an electronic reader positioned externally to a patient within a distance after the patient ingests the medicine delivery device, the medicine delivery device comprising an electronic circuit, the electronic circuit being configured to transmit the information relating to the medicine delivery device to the electronic reader while the electronic circuit being exposed to different solutions inside the patient's body;
- uploading the information relating to the medicine delivery device in real-time to at least one remote database;
- receiving drug specific and patient specific information from various sources;
- generating data indicative of the patient's compliance with a medication program based at least on the information relating to the medicine delivery device and the drug specific and patient specific information;
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- presenting the data to the patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.