Method and apparatus for remote monitoring of daily dispensing of medication

A medicine dispensing compliance system, the dispensing system comprising:

• a medicine dispensing unit;
• and
• a medicine dispensing application, in wireless communication with the medicine dispensing unit,
• wherein the medicine dispensing unit includes a medication container, a weighting unit, a dispensing control mechanism, and a wireless communication interface;
• and wherein the medicine dispensing application includes a user interface adapted to interface with a selected user of the medicine dispensing compliance system, and wherein the medicine dispensing application further includes a plurality of user parameters associated with and corresponding to the selected user;
• and wherein the plurality of user parameters include at least one of the following parameters;
• identity information related to the selected user;
• dispensing scheduling information including a desired weight of medicine to be dispensed at a pre-defined period of time;
• a list of pre-approved alert cancellation responses;
• a plurality of local alerts issued by the dispensing application;
• and a plurality of actions to be taken by the dispensing application under selected conditions, wherein the medication container comprises a weekly medication container including individual compartments associated and corresponding to a single day dosage of medicine to be taken by the selected user.