Smart drug selection and dispensing system and method

A method of operating a smart drug dispensing assembly to choose the optimal drug treatment for a health condition of a patient-user, the smart drug dispensing assembly having a plurality of drug reservoirs, at least one input device to collect health condition measurements, and a controller adapted to dispense any one or more of a drug treatment from its associated drug reservoir of the plurality of drug reservoirs, the method comprising;

• providing an outpatient order set corresponding to a sequence of drug treatment regimens, measurement protocols, and prescriber-user notification safeguards;
• dispensing a first drug corresponding to a first treatment regimen of the outpatient order set in a plurality of sittings and collecting the health condition measurements using the at least one input device at each of the plurality of sittings to provide a set of health condition measurements;
• determining a trust weight of the set of health condition measurements;
• once the trust weight for a set of health condition measurements exceeds a predetermined threshold and a computed stability and a computed precision of the set of health condition measurements exceeds a threshold, determine a probability that the treatment target has been attained with the first treatment regimen;
• and
• advancing to the next subsequent drug treatment in the sequence of drug treatment regimens of the outpatient order set if the probability that the treatment target has been attained is low or if the probability that the treatment target has been attained is high and a probability that a bothersome score of the set of health condition measurements is high.

An integrated drug selection system for a prescriber-user, a patient-user, and a pharmacist-user, having a treatment target, comprised of:

• an outpatient order set corresponding to a sequence of drug treatment regimens, measurement protocols, and prescriber-user notification safeguards;
• a plurality of drug reservoirs, each of the drug reservoirs adapted to store a drug in individually dispensable form, each of the drug reservoirs corresponding to a drug regimen, and each of the drug reservoirs being concealed from the patient-user;
• at least one input device adapted to collect at least one health condition measurement from the patient-user;
• a controller in operative communication with the at least one input device comprising a memory to store the at least one health condition measurement in a list of measurements associated with the patient-user, the controller to select one of the plurality of drug reservoirs corresponding to the drug regimen according to the outpatient order set using:
• a trust weight assigned to the at least one health measurement;
• an assessment of the stability and precision of health condition parameter estimates, derived from the list of measurements;
• and
• a probability that the treatment target is attained with each of the drug regimens dispensed.