US 2019/0295704 A1Published application

Home medication manager

AssigneeThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York

InventorsTim KEHOE, Rob BARNIKEL, Craig LEHMANN, John BRITTELLI

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Abstract

A home medication management system and method are provided comprise a home medication management device, a computing device associated with a user of medication management system, and a server in communication with the home medication management device and the computing device. The server comprises memory storing an application program interface (API) that is configured to manage the home medication of a patient including the registration of prescriptions, transmission of the registered prescriptions to the home medication management device, association of medications of the registered prescriptions with recesses of the home medication management device, presentation of alerts to the patient at scheduled times to take the medications based on the prescriptions, monitoring the patient for compliance with the alerts, determining whether the patient has taken the medication as scheduled, and presenting the determination to the user via the computing device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A home medication management system, comprising:

a home medication management device of a patient comprising a recess that is configured to store a medication container;
a computing device associated with a user of medication management system;
and
a server in communication with the home medication management device and the computing device, the server comprising:
at least one processor comprising hardware;
memory storing an application program interface (API) that is configured to manage the home medication of a patient, the API, when executed by the at least one processor, configured to:
prompt the user via the computing device to register a prescription for a patient registered to an account of the user;
receive from the user, via the computing device, prescription information about a medication included in the prescription, the prescription information comprising;
a name of the medication;
a dosage of the medication;
a frequency at which the patient needs to take the medication;
and
a date and time that the patient will start taking the medication;
register the prescription for the patient based on the received prescription information;
transmit the registered prescription to the home medication management device of the patient, the home medication management device configured to:
associate the medication of the registered prescription with the recess of the home medication management device;
provide an indication of the associated recess to the patient for the reception of a medicine container containing the medication;
determine that the medication container containing the medication has been received within the associated recess;
present an alert to the patient at a scheduled time to take the medication based on the prescription information;
provide an indication of the associated recess to the patient, the indication identifying the recess as containing the medication container for the medication that the patient is scheduled to take;
monitor the patient for compliance with the alert by determining whether the medication container containing the medication has been removed from the associated recess;
and
transmit compliance data based on the monitoring to the server;
the API further configured to:
receive the compliance data from the home medication management device;
determine, based on the received compliance data, whether the patient has taken the medication as scheduled;
and
present the determination to the user via the computing device.

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A home medication management method comprising:

prompting, by an application program interface (API) executed by at least one hardware processor of a server, a user, via a computing device, in communication with the server to register a prescription for a patient registered to an account of the user;
receiving, by the API, from the user, via the computing device, prescription information about a medication included in the prescription, the prescription information comprising;
a name of the medication;
a dosage of the medication;
a frequency at which the patient needs to take the medication;
and
a date and time that the patient will start taking the medication;
registering, by the API, the prescription for the patient based on the received prescription information;
transmitting, by the API, the registered prescription to a home medication management device of the patient that is in communication with the server;
associating, by the home medication management device, the medication of the registered prescription with a recess of the home medication management device;
providing, by the home medication management device, an indication of the associated recess to the patient for the reception of a medicine container containing the medication;
determining, by the home medication management device, that the medication container containing the medication has been received within the associated recess;
presenting, by the home medication management device, an alert to the patient at a scheduled time to take the medication based on the prescription information;
providing, by the home medication management device, an indication of the associated recess to the patient, the indication identifying the recess as containing the medication container for the medication that the patient is scheduled to take;
monitoring, by the home medication management device, the patient for compliance with the alert by determining whether the medication container containing the medication has been removed from the associated recess;
transmitting, by the home medication management device, compliance data based on the monitoring to the server;
receiving, by the API, the compliance data from the home medication management device;
determining, by the API, based on the received compliance data, whether the patient has taken the medication as scheduled;
and
presenting, by the API, the determination to the user via the computing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/317,088Filed 13 Jul 2017
Priority: 13 Jul 2016
Published: 26 Sep 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

A61J 7/0084
Medicament distribution means: for multiple medicaments
G16H 20/13
Relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients: delivered from dispensers
A61J 7/04
Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons ; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine:…
A61J 7/0418
With timers: with electronic history memory