Unit dose compliance monitoring & reporting device & system

A unit dose medication dispensing and compliance monitoring and reporting device, comprising:

• a dispenser shell with a dispensing face and defining a plurality of unit dose containers, each container defining an opening through the dispensing face;
• a layered retainer sheet configured to be confrontingly affixed to the dispensing face to seal each container opening;
• a sensor network arranged about a layer of the retainer sheet and having electrical container integrity signal paths;
• a monitoring and reporting circuit in electrical communication with timer and memory circuits, which are configured to detect a time interval when a one of the signal paths is interrupted;
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• a data display device in electronic communication with the monitoring and reporting circuit and configured to communicate data that includes a time signal representing the detected time intervals.

A unit dose medication dispensing and compliance monitoring and reporting blister pack, comprising:

• a dispenser shell with a dispensing face and defining a plurality of unit dose containers, each container defining an opening through the dispensing face;
• a retainer sheet integrally formed of a plurality of layers and configured to be confrontingly affixed to the dispensing face to seal each container opening;
• a sensor network arranged about at least one layer of the retainer sheet to have a plurality of electrical signal paths, each path being positioned to substantially extend about a respective container opening;
• a monitoring and reporting circuit carried from an extended edge of the unit dose device, and configured to detect signal path interruptions and to generate a time signal, the monitoring and reporting circuit being further adapted to compute and record a compliance time interval signal from the time signals;
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• a data display device carried from the extended edge and in electronic communication with the monitoring and reporting circuit to display data that includes the time interval signal of the generated time signals.

A unit dose medication dispensing and compliance monitoring and reporting apparatus, comprising:

• a dispenser pack with an aperture face and defining a plurality of blister compartments sized to contain respective unit doses, each blister compartment defining a recess with an opening in the aperture face;
• a retainer sheet formed of at least 2 layers and configured to be confrontingly affixed to the aperture face to seal each opening;
• a dispensement sensing network arranged about at least one of the at least 2 layers of the retainer sheet to have a plurality of signal paths that are interrupted upon dispensement of the unit dose, each signal path arranged to substantially extend proximate to a respective opening;
• a monitoring and reporting circuit with timer and memory circuits, which are configured to generate a time signal at each instance when a one of the signal paths of the plurality is interrupted, the monitoring and reporting circuit being further adapted to compute and store the time signals;
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• a data display device in electronic communication with the monitoring and reporting circuit and configured to display data that includes a representation of the time signals.