Sleep medicament dispensing system
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsPaul Marcel Carl Lemmens, Timmy Robertus Maria Leufkens
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Abstract
A sleep medication dispensing system is for controlling release of a sleep medicament to a user based on sleep information related to the user. The system includes an electronic medicament dispensing device with a release mechanism to permit release of a controlled dose of a sleep medication which is stored in a holding area of the device. The system includes a processing arrangement which receives the user sleep pattern information, and performs a release assessment which depends at least in part on the sleep pattern information. Release of a dose of the sleep medication in a given instance is made dependent upon an outcome of the release assessment.
Claims11
A medicament dispensing system for dispensing sleep medication, comprising:
- an electronic dispensing device comprising one or more medicament holding areas being electronically releasable to dispense a controlled dose of medicament;
- a processing arrangement, operatively coupled to the dispensing device, and adapted to:
- receive sleep pattern information related to a user from a local or remote source
- wherein the user sleep pattern information is indicative of patterns in one or more properties of the user's sleep over time and wherein the received sleep pattern information comprises information representative of historical patterns in the one or more properties of the user's sleep and/or projected future sleep pattern information for the user, and comprises information indicative of a historical cyclical pattern in one or more sleep properties over a time scale;
- generate a predicted value or measure for one or more properties of the user's sleep for a future sleep session based on the received user sleep pattern information;
- and control release of a medicament dependent upon an outcome of a release assessment, the release assessment being based at least in part on the predicted value or measure, and based on estimating a current point or phase within the temporal cycle of the cyclical pattern, and comprising determining a first or second order derivative of the cyclical pattern as a function of time at said estimated current point or phase in the temporal cycle.
A computer-implemented method of controlling dispensing of sleep medication using an electronic dispensing device comprising one or more medicament holding areas being electronically releasable to dispense a controlled dose of medicament;
- the method comprising:
- obtaining sleep pattern information related to a user
- wherein the user sleep pattern information is indicative of patterns in one or more properties of the user's sleep over time and comprises information representative of historical patterns in the one or more properties of the user's sleep and/or projected future sleep pattern information for the user, and comprises information indicative of a historical cyclical pattern in one or more sleep properties over a time scale;
- generating
- a predicted value or measure for one or more properties of the user's sleep for a future sleep session based on the obtained user sleep pattern information;
- and controlling release of a medicament dependent upon an outcome of a release assessment, the release assessment being based at least in part on the predicted value or measure, and based on estimating a current point or phase within the temporal cycle of the cyclical pattern, and comprising determining a first or second order derivative of the cyclical pattern as a function of time at said estimated current point or phase in the temporal cycle.
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