Medication management systems and related methods

Abstract

A medication management and dispensing system is provided. The system includes a housing; a medication dispensing mechanism disposed within the housing, the medication dispensing mechanism including a plurality of compartments therein, each of the plurality of compartments configured to hold a predetermined dose of medication; a motor in the housing and operably coupled to the medication dispensing mechanism that is configured to engage the medication dispensing mechanism at a predetermined time and cause the medication dispensing mechanism to release the dose of medication; a receptacle disposed in the housing that receives the dispensed medication released by the medication dispensing mechanism; and a weight sensor operably associated with the receptacle that detects a weight of the dose of medication when the dose of medication is released into the receptacle causing a user to be alerted of presence of the dose of medication in the receptacle.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.