Smart vial interactive medication dosage dispensing system and method
OwnerLaila Velani, Danny Shaikhinventors
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Abstract
A medication dispensing system is disclosed, having an interactive vial having a controllable lock for containing medications prescribed for a patient; a processor contained in the vial; a computer program stored in a computer readable medium the computer program comprising instructions for execution by the processor, the computer program comprising: instructions to read patient data for the patient from a data base stored in the computer readable medium; instructions to authorized dispensing of the medication from the vial; and instructions to upon reading an authorization value of “YES”, unlock the vial to allow access to the medication from the vial. A method for using the system is disclosed.
Claims20
A medication dispensing system, the system comprising:
- an interactive vial having a controllable lock for containing medications prescribed for a patient;
- a processor contained in the vial;
- a computer program stored in a computer readable medium the computer program comprising instructions for execution by the processor, the computer program comprising:
- instructions to read patient data for the patient from a data base stored in the computer readable medium;
- instructions to authorize dispensing of the medication from the vial upon receiving an authorization value of “YES”, unlock the vial to allow access to the medication from the vial, wherein the authorization value is indicated in a data stream containing markers sent to the smart vial.
The method of claim 11, further comprising:
- reading patient data for medications the patient has taken and when;
- and
- calculating, using drug interaction stored in the data base for the medication for the patient, a sliding scale medication dosage schedule based on the food eaten and when and the medications taken and store the sliding scale food requirement value in the data base as an authentication value parameter for calculating the authentication value to unlock the vial.
A method dispensing medication dispensing system, the system comprising:
- controlling from a vial processor an interactive vial having a controllable lock for containing medications prescribed for a patient;
- reading patient data for the patient from a data base stored in the computer readable medium;
- authorizing dispensing of the medication from the vial;
- and
- instructions to upon reading an authorization value of “YES”, unlocking the vial to allow access to the medication from the vial.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.