Medicament storage, dispensing, and administration system and method

• US 10,398,524 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2016
• Issued: 09/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mylan Incorporated (Pfizer Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Mylan Incorporated (Pfizer Inc.)
• Inventors: Denny, John W., Ostrander, Kevin
• Primary Examiner(s): Bousono, Orlando
• Assistant Examiner(s): Afrifa-Kyei, Anthony D
• Application Number:
  US15/371,156
• Publication Number:
  US 20170079734A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: 34053913, 34053912, 3406866
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/30 Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/3001 for sharps
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0076 Medicament distribution means with pill counting devices A61J7/02; with time indication A61J7/04; containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents B65D83/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/18 with alarm
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3306 Optical measuring means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3368 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3553 remote, e.g. between patient's home and doctor's office
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/52 with memories providing a history of measured variating parameters of apparatus or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/581 by audible feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6009 for matching patient with his treatment, e.g. to improve transfusion security
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6054 Magnetic identification systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6072 Bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/002 Packages specially adapted therefor, e.g. for syringes or needles, kits for diabetics needle protection, e.g. caps, A61M5/3202; for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/20 Automatic syringes, e.g. with automatically actuated piston rod, with automatic needle injection, filling automatically A61M5/142 , A61M5/46 take precedence; hypodermic projectiles F42B12/54
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/5086 for indicating if defective, used, tampered with or unsterile
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/02 for dispensing rod-shaped articles, e.g. needles packages for cigarettes provided with dispensing means B65D85/1009; dispensers for drinking straws A47G21/184
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 1/08 : using electric transmission ; transformation of alarm signals to electrical signals from a different medium, e.g. transmission of an electric alarm signal upon detection of an audible alarm signal
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/182 : Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/10 : using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/36 : using visible light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 : stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 : relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 : delivered from dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 : delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5116 : for emergency applications

Abstract

Various exemplary embodiments relate to an electronic device for dispensing a medicament. The electronic device may include a medicament storage case or an electronic medicament device. The medicament storage case includes: a door moveable between an open position and a closed position; a lock moveable between a locked position where the lock maintains the door in the closed position and an unlocked position where the lock allows the door to move to the open position; a medicament dispensing device containing medication; an input device located on an external surface of the storage case activatable by a user; a communication unit configured to initiate a two-way communication between the user and a remote access control center upon activation of the input device and configured to receive an access signal from the remote access control center; and an actuator responsive to the access signal to move the lock to the open position upon receipt of the communication from the remote access control center. The electronic medicament device includes a reservoir configured to store an amount of medication, an administration component for administering the medication to a patient, and a processor communicatively connected to a memory.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a medicament device comprising;

a structure configured to receive an auto-injector;

a wireless communication device configured to (i) wirelessly communicate information with a mobile telecommunication device associated with a designated user who requires use of the auto-injector, wherein the information allows for determining whether the medicament device is within close proximity to the mobile telecommunication device and (ii) receive, from the mobile telecommunication device, an identifier that is (i) transmitted by the mobile telecommunication device and (ii) associated with the designated user of the auto-injector,

a processing device configured to;

determine, based on receiving the identifier, that the auto-injector is associated with the designated user of the auto-injector,

perform at least one of (i) causing a display on the medicament device to illuminate or (ii) causing a sound source on the medicament device to play a sound; and

the mobile telecommunication device configured for;

storing, in a memory of the mobile telecommunication device, a device identifier of the medicament device,

transmitting wireless polling communications to the medicament device based on the device identifier being stored in the memory, and

determining, from the wireless polling communications, that the medicament device is not within close proximity to the mobile telecommunication device associated with the designated user of the auto-injector.

2. The system of claim 1, the medicament device further comprising:

a global positioning system receiver, wherein the global positioning system receiver is configured to generate location data indicating a location of the medicament device, and wherein the wireless communication device is further configured to wirelessly communicate the location data to the mobile telecommunication device;

a sensor having a frangible element that completes or breaks when the medicament device is being used; and

a door coupled with the medicament device and configured to move between an open position and a closed position, wherein in the open position the epinephrine auto-injector can be loaded into the medicament device and removed therefrom, and wherein in the closed position the epinephrine auto-injector cannot be loaded into the medicament device or removed therefrom.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the wireless communication device comprises a Bluetooth wireless transmitter.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the display comprises a flashing display.

5. The system of claim 1, the medicament device further comprising a global positioning system receiver, wherein the global positioning system receiver is configured to generate location data indicating a location of the medicament device, and wherein the wireless communication device is further configured to wirelessly communicate the location data to the mobile telecommunication device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication device comprises a Bluetooth wireless transmitter.

7. The system of claim 1, the medicament device further comprising a sensor having a frangible element that completes or breaks when the medicament device is being used.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a door coupled with the medicament device and configured to move between an open position and a closed position, wherein in the open position the epinephrine auto-injector can be loaded into the medicament device and removed therefrom, and wherein in the closed position the epinephrine auto-injector cannot be loaded into the medicament device or removed therefrom.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the display comprises a flashing display.

10. A method comprising:

providing a medicament device for receiving an auto-injector;

wirelessly communicating, with a mobile telecommunication device associated with a designated user who requires use of the auto-injector, a first identifier that is (i) transmitted by the mobile telecommunication device and (ii) associated with the designated user of the auto-injector;

storing, in a memory of the mobile telecommunication device, a second identifier for the medicament device,

wirelessly transmitting, by the mobile telecommunication device, wireless polling communications to the medicament device based on the second identifier being stored in the memory, wherein the wireless polling communications allow for determining whether the medicament device is within close proximity to the mobile telecommunication device;

determining, by a processing device and subsequent to the first identifier being transmitted to the medicament device, that the medicament device is not within close proximity to the designated user of the auto-injector; and

performing, at least one of (i) causing a display on the medicament device to illuminate or (ii) causing a sound source on the medicament device to play a sound.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

generating, with a global positioning system receiver, location data indicating a location of the medicament device; and

wirelessly communicating the location data to the mobile telecommunication device.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the wireless polling communications are performed with a Bluetooth wireless transmitter.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising providing, with the medicament device, a sensor having a frangible element that completes or breaks when the medicament device is being used.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the display comprises a flashing display.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor of a mobile telecommunication device, performs a process comprising:

wirelessly transmitting, to a medicament device, an identifier associated with a designated user who requires use of the auto-injector;

determining that an auto-injector for the medicament device is associated with the designated user who requires use of the auto-injector;

storing, in a memory of the mobile telecommunication device, a device identifier for the medicament device;

wirelessly communicating, based on the device identifier being stored in the memory, information with the medicament device, wherein the information allows for determining whether the medicament device is within close proximity to the mobile telecommunication device;

determining, from the information, that the medicament device is not within close proximity to the designated user of the auto-injector; and

performing, at least one of (i) causing a display on the medicament device to illuminate or (ii) causing a sound source on the medicament device to play a sound.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, the process further comprising receiving location data generated by a global positioning system receiver of the medicament device.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the wireless communication is performed with a Bluetooth wireless transmitter.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the display comprises a flashing display.