Controlling drug delivery apparatus
AssigneeProfile Respiratory Systems Limited
InventorsJonathan Stanley Harold Denyer, Anthony Dyche
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Abstract
A drug package comprising a plurality of drug vials containing drugs for delivery to a patient in a drug delivery device; and a data carrier including drug treatment information for use by the drug delivery apparatus.
Claims38
A drug package comprising:
- a plurality of drug vials containing drugs for delivery to a patient in a drug delivery device;
- and
- a data carrier including drug treatment information for use by the drug delivery apparatus
A drug delivery apparatus comprising:
- a delivery portion for delivering a drug to a patient;
- an input for receiving treatment information for each treatment to be delivered to a patient;
- and
- a delivery controller for controlling the amount of drug delivered to a patient on the basis of the received treatment information.
An electronic data carrier for use with a drug delivery apparatus comprising a memory for holding treatment information concerning the use of the drug delivery apparatus in delivering a specified drug, and an output for transmitting treatment information to the drug delivery apparatus.
A drug delivery system comprising:
- a drug delivery apparatus for delivering a specified drug;
- and
- an electronic data carrier containing treatment information relating to the specified drug, the data carrier including an output for transmitting treatment information to the drug delivery apparatus before each treatment with the specified drug, whereby the drug delivery apparatus delivers the specified drug in conformity with the treatment information.
A method of operating a drug delivery apparatus comprising:
- supplying a plurality of vials of a drug for use with the drug delivery apparatus;
- supplying a data carrier including treatment information;
- transmitting treatment information from the data carrier to the drug delivery apparatus;
- placing an amount of the drug from a vial in the drug delivery apparatus;
- and
- delivery the drug in accordance with the treatment information from the data carrier.
A drug delivery device comprising:
- a delivery portion for delivering a drug to a patient;
- a drug use analyser which analyses to amount of a drug delivered over a number of treatments and which identifies when only a certain proportion of the prescribed drug remains;
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- a repeat prescription ordering portion which operates to electronically order a repeat prescription once the drug use analyser identifies that less than the certain proportion of the prescribed drug remains.
A method of prescribing a drug, comprising:
- supplying a patient with a course of a number of drug treatments for administering using a drug delivery device;
- analysing the use of the drug treatments;
- identifying when only a certain proportion of the drug treatments remain;
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- electronically ordering a repeat prescription once it has been identified that only a certain proportion of the drug treatments remain.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.