Medication magazines and intelligent medication management systems

A portable medication magazine, comprising:

• a body comprising one or more compartments, the one or more compartments configured to house a respective blister card;
• control electronics operably connected to the body and configured to control operation of the portable medication magazine;
• and
• one or more lights, one or more speakers, or a combination thereof, wherein
• the one or more lights, the one or more speakers, or both, are operably connected to the control electronics,
• the control electronics are configured to provide notifications when one or more medications housed within the portable medication magazine should be taken,
• the control electronics are configured to assign a respective blister sleeve of one or more blister sleeves to a respective compartment of the one or more compartments of the body, and
• the medication magazine is configured to pop out a blister sleeve responsive to instructions from the control electronics.

A method of determining removal of contents of a blister from a portable medication magazine, comprising:

• scanning a unique code of a blister card comprising the blister;
• placing the blister card within an assigned compartment of the portable medication magazine;
• engaging an automatic dosing notification process of control electronics of the portable medication magazine such that a notification is sent to the assigned compartment at an appropriate dosing time;
• activating at least one of light and sound alerts within the portable medication magazine responsive to the notification;
• automatically releasing a spring-loaded locking mechanism of the assigned compartment of the portable medication magazine at dosing time, thereby unlocking the blister card, the spring-loaded locking mechanism configured to unlock the blister card responsive to notification from the control electronics;
• and
• relocking the blister card within the assigned compartment via the spring-loaded locking mechanism and stopping the alerts.