Medication container and dosing monitor

A device for monitoring the compliance between the timing of medication events for a certain medication and for providing feedback indicative of the degree of compliance between those monitored medication events and a specified dosing regimen, where the specified dosing regimen and the degree of compliance are determined using pharmacodynamic information including at least dosing effect information for the certain medication and information on the effects of various deviations from the specified dosing regimen, wherein the degree of compliance is provided at least to a patient receiving such medication comprising:

• a.) a medication timing detector capable of providing a dose time signal to a time signal memory each time a dose of said medication is taken by the patient,
• b.) the time signal memory for storing the dose time signals provided by the medication timing detector,
• c.) dosing regimen memory for storing pharmacodynamic information concerning the desired dosing regimen and dosing effect information for the certain medication,
• d.) a comparator for determining at least the time elapsed since the most recently-generated dose time signal or the time elapsed between the most recently generated dose time signal and at least one previous dose time signal and comparing such determined elapsed times with the pharmacodynamic information concerning the dosing regimen and dosing effect information for the certain medication and generating a feedback output indicative of the degree of compliance between the determined times and the pharmacodynamic information concerning the desired dosing regimen, dosing effect information, and deviation effect information for the certain medication, and
• e.) a display for displaying to the patient a graphic indication of the feedback output of the degree of compliance.

A blister pack device for housing a plurality of doses of a certain medication and for monitoring the compliance between the timing of medication events for the certain medication and for providing feedback indicative of the degree of compliance between those monitored medication events and a specified dosing regimen, where the specified dosing regimen and the degree of compliance are determined using pharmacodynamic information including at least dosing effect information for the certain medication and information on the effects of various deviations from the specified dosing regimen, wherein the degree of compliance is provided at least to a patient receiving such medication comprising:

• a.) a blister pack container capable of housing a plurality of doses of the certain medication,
• b.) a medication timing detector capable of providing a dose time signal to a time signal memory each time a dose of said medication is taken by the patient,
• c.) the time signal memory for storing the dose time signals provided by the medication timing detector,
• d.) dosing regimen memory for storing pharmacodynamic information concerning the desired dosing regimen and dosing effect information for the certain medication,
• e.) a comparator for determining at least the time elapsed since the most recently-generated dose time signal or the time elapsed between the most recently generated dose time signal and at least one previous dose time signal and comparing such determined elapsed times with the pharmacodynamic information concerning the dosing regimen and dosing effect information for the certain medication and generating a feedback output indicative of the degree of compliance between the determined times and the pharmacodynamic information concerning the desired dosing regimen, dosing effect information, and deviation effect information for the certain medication, and
• f.) a display for displaying to the patient a graphic indication of the feedback output of the degree of compliance.