Method and apparatus for dispensing medication
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsHarm Jacob Buisman, Georgio Mosis
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Abstract
A method for dispensing at least two medications to a patient, the method comprising the steps of: automatically dispensing at least one first medication to a patient according to a predetermined dosage level; receiving (203) a request from the patient for a second medication; determining (207, 215) the total dispensed dosage of the at least one first medication and the second medication for the patient; providing (209, 211, 213, 217, 219, 223) an indication if the determined dispensed dosage is equal to or greater than a predetermined maximum dosage; and dispensing (225) the requested second medication if the determined dispensed dosage is less than or equal to the predetermined maximum dosage.
Claims15
A method for dispensing at least two medications to a patient, the method comprising with a processor the steps of:
- controlling a first dispensed channel to dispense a predetermined first medication dosage of a first medication to a patient;
- receiving a request from said patient for a second medication dosage of a second medication which second medication interacts with the first medication;
- determining a total dosage of said dispensed first medication and said requested second medication for said patient;
- providing an indication if said determined total dispensed dosage is equal to or greater than a predetermined maximum total dosage;
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- dispensing said requested second medication if said determined dispensed dosage is less than or equal to said predetermined maximum total dosage.
An apparatus for dispensing at least two interacting medications to a patient, the apparatus comprising:
- a first dispensing channel which dispenses at least one first medication of a predetermined first dosage;
- a second dispensing channel which dispenses a second medication in response to receipt of a request from said patient to dispense a second dosage of the requested second medication;
- a processor configured to determine a total dosage of said at least one first medication and said requested second medication;
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- an indicator which provides an alert to said patient in response to said determined total dosage being equal to or greater than the predetermined maximum total dosage.
An apparatus for dispensing at least two medications which adversely interact to a patient, the apparatus comprising a processor programmed to:
- control a first dispensing channel to dispense a prescribed medication on a predetermined schedule;
- control a second dispensing channel to dispense a take-when-needed medication on request;
- receive a request from the patient for a dose of the take-when-needed medication;
- determine whether there is an adverse interaction between a previously delivered dosage of the prescribed medication and the requested dose of the take-when-needed medication and send an indication to the patient if the adverse interaction determined;
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- determine if the previously dispensed dosage of the prescribed medication and the requested dose of the take-when-needed medication for the patient is equal to or greater than a predetermined maximum total dosage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.