Voice interrogation, control, and authentication of connected drug delivery devices

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for using functionalities of voice activated assistant systems to monitor and control delivery of therapeutic medicines. An individual makes spoken requests to a voice assistant provisioned with a software skill coupled to a drug delivery device. Spoken requests directed to the system may interrogate various aspects of medication, medication delivery, or status of a patient receiving medication with the device. Other spoken requests directed to the system may control various aspects of drug delivery. Still other spoken requests directed to the system may enable emergency response to a patient using the device, as in the case of an acute systemic infusion reaction to one or more medicines contained within the drug delivery device. Systems and methods disclosed herein enable restriction of certain requests and commands to an authorized user of the device, provide methods to distinguish authorized from unauthorized users before responding to a user request, to prevent inadvertent interrogation and/or control of the apparatus, and to avoid verbalization of private patient information.

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