Dispenser System And Methods For Medication Compliance

A medication dispensing system comprising:

• a container transfer device configured to move containers to transfer medicine between containers, wherein the containers include a first container and a second container, and wherein the first container is configured to initially store the medicine;
• and
• a controller configured to
• determine a first predetermined amount of the medicine to be dispensed from the medicine dispensing system,
• cause to discharge at least a second predetermined amount of the medicine from the first container into the second container,
• subsequent to the discharge of the at least the second predetermined amount of the medicine, determine whether the second container has greater than or equal to the first predetermined amount of the medicine, and
• if the second container does not have the first predetermined amount of the medicine, at least one of transfer a portion of the medicine in the second container into the first container or a third container.

A medication dispensing system comprising:

• a medicine transfer device configured to transfer medicine between containers, wherein the containers include a first container and a second container, and wherein the first container is configured to initially store medicine;
• and
• a controller configured to
• determine a first predetermined amount of medicine to be dispensed from the medicine dispensing system,
• cause the medicine transfer device to (i) discharge at least a second predetermined amount of the medicine from the first container onto the medicine transfer device, and (ii) transfer at least a third predetermined amount of the medicine from the medicine transfer device to the second container,
• subsequent to the transfer of the third predetermined amount of the medicine, determine whether the second container has greater than or equal to the first predetermined amount of the medicine, and
• if the second container has less than the first predetermined amount of the medicine, cause the medicine transfer device to at least one of (i) transfer at least a portion of the medicine on the medicine transfer device into the second container, or (ii) discharge at least a portion of the medicine in the first container onto the medicine transfer device.