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US 2020/0051681 A1Published application
Systems and methods for medication adherence
OwnerDale Tonogai, Pramod Madabhushiinventors
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Abstract
A medication adherence service receives patients' medication schedules from health care professionals and systems. A medication adherence device is communicatively coupled to the medication adherence service. Based upon a patient's prescribed medication schedule, the medication adherence device manages and monitors a patient's adherence to the prescribed medication schedule. The medication adherence device captures images of compartments holding medications in accordance with the prescribed medication schedule. These images are analyzed to aid the patient in filling the compartments and to manage and monitor the patient in adhering to the prescribed schedule.
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A medication adherence device comprising:
- a camera unit comprising a camera;
- a medication unit configured to be docked and undocked with the camera unit, wherein the medication unit comprises a plurality of medication compartments for organizing medications corresponding to tablets according to a prescribed medication schedule, wherein the camera is to capture one or more images of one or more medication compartments of the plurality of medication compartments in response to docking the medication unit with the camera unit, the one or more images comprising one or more tablets;
- an image processor to evaluate the one or more captured images of the one or more medication compartments and one or more reference images of one or more tablets to determine a quantity of tablets in the one or more medication compartments;
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- an adherence manager to manage and monitor a patient's adherence to the prescribed medication schedule based on the quantity of tablets in the one or more medication compartments, wherein the adherence manager is communicatively coupled to a medication adherence service and to send patient adherence data characterizing the patient's adherence to the prescribed medication schedule to the medication adherence service.
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A method comprising:
- providing a medication unit configured for docking and undocking with a camera unit, wherein the medication unit comprises a plurality of medication compartments for receiving one or more tablets;
- prompting using an interface unit a patient to fill one or more compartments of the medication unit with the one or more tablets in response to docking the medication unit with the camera unit;
- capturing one or more images of the one or more compartments using one or more cameras of the camera unit, the one or more image comprising the one or more tablets;
- analyzing the one or more captured images, one or more reference images of one or more tablets to determine a number of tablets in each of the one or more compartments;
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- comparing the determined number of tablets in each of the one or more compartments to predetermined numbers of tablets defined for each of the one or more compartments to determine if each of the one or more compartments has been properly filled, wherein a medication adherence service is to deliver an alert to a device associated with a user to notify the user that at least one compartment of the one or more compartments has not been properly filled based on the comparison.
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A method comprising:
- providing a medication unit configured for docking and undocking with a camera unit, wherein the medication unit comprises a plurality of medication compartments for receiving one or more tablets;
- prompting using an interface unit a patient to take a medication corresponding to one or more tablets according to a medication adherence schedule, wherein the interface unit receives the medication adherence schedule from a medication adherence service;
- capturing one or more images of the one or more compartments using one or more cameras of the camera unit, the one or more images comprising the one or more tablets;
- analyzing the one or more captured images of the one or more medication compartments and one or more reference images of one or more tablets stored in a memory to determine whether the medication has been properly taken;
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- recording that the proper medication has been taken based on the analyzing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.