A web enabled audiovisual medication system with enhanced compliance verification, comprising in combination a web enabled audiovisual medication dispenser and a remote caregiver apparatus, said remote caregiver apparatus having:
- a microphone configured to capture audio input and transmit the audio input to said web enabled audiovisual medication dispenser;
- a speaker configured to receive an audio signal originating at said web enabled audiovisual medication dispenser and reproduce an audible output;
- a camera configured to capture images of a caregiver and transmit said images to said web enabled audiovisual medication dispenser;
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- a display screen configured to receive a video signal originating at said web enabled audiovisual medication dispenser and produce a visual display;
- said web enabled audiovisual medication dispenser having:
- a housing;
- web link circuitry configured to establish audiovisual communication with said remote caregiver device;
- a microphone electrically coupled to the web link circuitry and configured to capture audio input and transmit the audio input to the web link circuitry, and the web link circuitry configured to receive the audio input and transmit the audio input to a caregiver;
- a speaker electrically coupled to the web link circuitry and configured to receive an audio signal originating at said remote caregiver apparatus from said web link circuitry and reproduce an audible output;
- a display screen electrically coupled to the web link circuitry and configured to receive a video signal originating at said remote caregiver apparatus from said web link circuitry and produce a visual display;
- a medication pouch chamber enclosed within said housing;
- a plurality of medication pouches stored within said medication pouch chamber that each contain at least one medication;
- a medication pouch receptacle partially enclosed within said housing and configured to receive and hold at least one of said plurality of medication pouches;
- a dispenser configured to transfer said at least one of said plurality of medication pouches stored within said medication pouch chamber from said medication pouch chamber to said medication pouch receptacle;
- a first imaging apparatus generating an image of said medication pouch receptacle and configured to capture a medication pouch receptacle image of said medication pouch within said medication pouch receptacle and communicate said medication pouch receptacle image through said web link circuitry to said remote caregiver apparatus and further configured to capture a medication pouch removal image of at least a portion of a patient's hand during said patient's removal of said medication pouch from said medication pouch receptacle;
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- a second imaging apparatus having a functional field of view including at least a patient's hand, arm, and face and further including a medication handling region extending substantially between said patient's face to at least adjacent to said medication pouch receptacle, said second imaging apparatus configured to capture a first medication handling region image of said patient, and a second medication handling region image of said patient removing at least one medication from said at least one of said plurality of aggregated medication pouches, and a third medication handling region image of said patient consuming said at least one medication removed from said at least one of said plurality of aggregated medication pouches.