US 2003/0200726 A1 · System and method for providing temporal patient dosing

Abstract

A system and method for creating a series of individualized custom doses for a consumer. The individualized doses being delivered in a package or packages, such that each individualized custom dose, comprising a plurality of medications and/or supplements, is individually separable from the remaining doses within the series. By way of example, and not of limitation, a system is described having a web based front-end interface within which the user may establish a dosing schedule, select supplements and/or medications (MS) from an MS database, elect which MS are to be included in each dose, and communicate the order to be processed by a packetizing system. The packetizing system utilizes a conveyance device which interconnects a series of pill dispensing bins. The conveyance device has compartments for collecting a series of doses which are then packetized and shipped for use by the consumer.

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Dependent claims

A system for providing individualized doses, each of which comprises a plurality of supplements and/or medications (MS), comprising:

a packetizing system adapted to package a plurality of pills, or equivalent, from a pill repository into separate doses;
a computer system operably connected to said packetizing system and adapted to access said pill repository to control the dispensing of pills from said repository and the packaging of said pills within packetizing system;
and
an interface associated with said computer wherethrough a dosing schedule may be specified into which supplements and/or medications (MS) from said pill repository may be entered to create a description of a series of doses which is communicated to said packetizing system for packaging said series of doses.

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An apparatus for packaging an assortment of pills within an MS dose according to a received order for individualized MS doses wherein each said MS dose includes a custom assortment of medicines and/or supplements (MS) for consumption by a specific consumer, comprising:

dispensing bins adapted to retain unpackaged pills and to dispense a selected number of said pills;
a conveyance system interconnecting a series of said dispensing bins which collectively define a pill repository adapted for retaining an assortment of said supplements and/or medicines;
individual dose bins or dose compartments within said conveyance system which are adapted for collecting said pills for said MS dose;
a packaging system adapted to transfer each of said MS doses from said individual dose bins or dose compartments into individually accessible packages for distribution to said consumer;
and
an electronic control system operably connected to said conveyance system, said dispensing bins and said packaging system;
and
a control program executing on said electronic control system which directs the dispensing bins to selectively dispense pills within selected dose bins or dose compartments of said conveyance system in accord with each MS dose within said order which is directed to move said MS doses to said packaging system which retrieves said MS doses from said conveyance system and packages said doses for said consumer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for providing temporal patient dosing

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