Hand therapy kit with presence sensors
AssigneeISOS Solutions LLC
InventorsDimitrios Christoforou, Vipul Patel
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Abstract
A hand therapy kit includes hand therapy modules and a housing having defined receptacles in which the hand therapy modules are removably disposed. A module presence sensor is disposed in each receptacle to detect the presence or absence of the corresponding hand therapy module. A microprocessor disposed in the hand therapy kit sends the module presence sensor data to a remote computer that analyzes the module presence sensor data to determine whether the patient is complying with a prescribed treatment regimen. The remote computer can generate warnings, alerts, and/or notifications when noncompliance is detected.
Claims29
A hand therapy kit comprising:
- a plurality of hand therapy modules;
- a housing that includes an upper lid and a lower lid, wherein said upper lid is removable from the lower lid to open said housing and said upper lid is engageable with the lower lid to close said housing, said upper and lower lids defining a plurality of receptacles to removably receive the hand therapy modules;
- a plurality of module presence sensors, each module presence sensor disposed in a respective receptacle and having a first state when a corresponding hand therapy module is disposed in the receptacle and a second state when the corresponding hand therapy module is removed from the receptacle;
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- a microprocessor disposed in the housing, the microprocessor in electrical communication with each module presence sensor to determine whether each module presence sensor is in the first state or in the second state.
A hand therapy kit comprising:
- a plurality of containers;
- a plurality of hand therapy modules, each hand therapy module disposed in a respective container;
- a plurality of container presence sensors, each container presence sensor disposed in a respective container and having a first state when a corresponding hand therapy module is disposed in the container and a second state when the corresponding hand therapy module is removed from the container;
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- a microprocessor in electrical communication with each container presence sensor to determine whether each container presence sensor is in the first state or in the second state.
A computer-implemented method for remotely monitoring a usage of removable hand therapy modules, comprising:
- in a computer:
- receiving module presence sensor data that includes a state of each of a plurality of module presence sensors, each module presence sensor disposed in a corresponding receptacle defined in a housing of a kit, each module presence sensor having a first state when a corresponding hand therapy module is disposed in the corresponding receptacle and a second state when the corresponding hand therapy module is removed from the corresponding receptacle;
- analyzing the module presence sensor data to determine a measured usage frequency of each hand therapy module;
- comparing the measured usage frequency of each hand therapy module to a treatment plan, the treatment plan including a prescribed usage frequency for each hand therapy module;
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- generating a noncompliance alert when the measured usage frequency of at least one hand therapy module is lower than the prescribed usage frequency.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.