Compliance system

• US 10,143,627 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2018
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Altium Healthcare Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Tri State Distribution Incorporated (Loews Corporation)
• Inventors: Miceli, David A., Miceli, Joseph A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bousono, Orlando
• Application Number:
  US15/936,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20180214347A1
• Time in Patent Office: 252 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/03 for pills or tablets containers for pills or tablets with special dispensing means therefor B65D83/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/30 Printed labels
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0069 Trays for holding or distributing medicines display trays A47F3/14; serving trays A47G23/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0084 for multiple medicaments
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/04 Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers

Abstract

A prescription compliance system including a dosage table dimensioned and configured to be applied to a closure of a prescription container system, the dosage table including a plurality of demarcated sequence sections each configured to receive a dosage number identifying how many pills of a prescribed medication in the container system to which the dosage table is applied should be taken during each sequence of a sequence schedule.

Claims

1. A prescription compliance system for improving patient compliance in taking a prescribed medication housed in a prescription container system, the prescribed medication having dosing instructions providing that the prescribed medication is to be taken according to a sequence schedule, the prescription compliance system comprising a dosage table dimensioned and configured to be applied to a closure of a prescription container system, the dosage table including a plurality of demarcated sequence sections each configured to receive a dosage number identifying how many pills of the prescribed medication in the container system to which the dosage table is applied should be taken during each sequence of the sequence schedule.

2. The prescription compliance system of claim 1 wherein the prescription container labeling system further comprises a second dosage table applied to a container of the container system to confirm that the dosage numbers of the closure dosage table matches dosage numbers of the second dosage table when securing the closure to the container.

3. The prescription compliance system of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of demarcated sequence sections are assigned a distinct sequence identifier.

4. The prescription compliance system of claim 1 wherein the dosage table is distributed to a dispensing entity without dosage numbers printed in the plurality of demarcated sequence sections such that the dosage table is configured to receive the dosage numbers at the dispensing entity.

5. The prescription compliance system of claim 4 further comprising pharmacy labeling software such that the dosage numbers are printed in the plurality of demarcated sequence sections by the pharmacy labeling software when the pharmacy labeling software prints a prescription label for the prescription container system.

6. The prescription compliance system of claim 4 wherein the dosage table is configured to receive handwritten dosage numbers at the dispensing entity.

7. The prescription compliance system of claim 1 further comprising a plurality of dosage tables each having pre-printed dosage numbers corresponding to potential dosage sequences of the prescribed medication.

8. The prescription compliance system of claim 1 wherein the plurality of demarcated sequence sections of the dosage table are arranged sequentially to correspond to sequence compartments of a pill tray.