US 2018/0121615 A1Published application

System using nfc-enabled medicine packaging to establish a no-login, authenticated and contextualized two-ways data flow between a patient and a pharmaceutical manufacturer

AssigneeXerox Corporation

InventorsDavid Rozier, Nicolas Guerin

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Abstract

A system and method to establish a no-login authenticated and contextualized two-ways data flow between a medicine user and the pharmaceutical manufacturer. Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, enabling short-range communication between two compatible devices is utilized via a writeable NFC tag carried by a medication package. The writeable NFC tag includes medication information, anti-counterfeiting information, as well as data about the patient and the prescription. The NFC tag may be read by a user device associated with the patient, enabling the user device to merge this data with the patient's feedback, send this rich flow in a secure way to the manufacturer, who in turn is now able to provide rich contextual guidance to the patient.

Claims27

Dependent claims

A near-field communication (NFC)-enabled medication packaging system, comprising:

a server, comprising:
a processor in communication with memory;
a near-field communications transceiver in data communication with the processor and memory;
and
a data storage in communication with the processor, the data storage storing a public key and a private key;
wherein the memory stores instructions which are executed by the processor to:
initialize a tag of a medicine package with medication data corresponding to a medication contained therein,
sign the tag using the private key to establish authentication of the medication contained in the medicine package,
receive encrypted data from a user device via a secure communications link over a computer network, the encrypted data including at least one of prescription data and patient data,
decrypt the received data to retrieve the at least one of the prescription data and the patient data,
generate personalized guidance specific to the patient in accordance with at least one of the prescription data and the patient data, and
communicate, via the secure communications link over the computer network, the personalized guidance specific to the patient to the user device.

9 more elements

A near-field communication (NFC)-enabled medication packaging method, comprising:

initializing, with a processor of a server, a tag of a medicine package with medication data corresponding to a medication contained therein;
signing the tag, by the server, using a private key to establish authentication of the medication contained in the medicine package;
receiving data encrypted with a public key associated with the private key from a user device via a secure communications link over a computer network, the encrypted data including at least one of prescription data and patient data;
decrypting the received data via the private key to retrieve the at least one of the prescription data and the patient data;
generating personalized guidance specific to the patient in accordance with at least one of the prescription data and the patient data;
and
communicating, via the secure communications link over the computer network, the personalized guidance specific to the patient to the user device,
wherein at least one of the initializing, signing, decrypting, generating, and communicating is performed by the processor of the server.

5 more elements

A computer-implemented method for near-field communication (NFC)-enabled medication packaging, comprising:

writing at least one of a medication name, a medication packaging, a batch number, and an expiration date on a tag of a medicine package with medication data corresponding to a medication contained therein;
signing the tag using a private key to establish authentication of the medication contained in the medicine package;
receiving data encrypted with a public key associated with the private key from a user device via a secure communications link over a computer network, the encrypted data including at least one of prescription data and patient data;
decrypting the received data via the private key to retrieve the at least one of the prescription data and the patient data;
receiving, from the user device via the secure communications link over the computer network, user feedback data representative of a use of the medication by the patient;
analyzing the received feedback data;
generating personalized guidance specific to the patient in accordance with the analyzed user feedback data and at least one of the prescription data and the patient data;
and
communicating, via the secure communications link over the computer network, the personalized guidance specific to the patient to the user device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/342,383Filed 3 Nov 2016
Published: 3 May 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G16H 10/65
For patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records: stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
G16H 20/10
ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient…:…
G16H 50/20
ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis, medical simulation or medical data mining; ICT specially adapted for detecting, monitoring or…: for…
H04L 63/0428
For providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks: wherein the data content is protected, e.g.…