Apparatus and method for recognition of medication administration indicator

• US 10,460,438 B1
• Filed: 03/23/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AIC Innovations Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: AIC Innovations Group, Inc.
• Inventors: Hanina, Adam, Guan, Lei, Lai, Dehua
• Primary Examiner(s): Yenke, Brian P
• Assistant Examiner(s): Haiem, Sean N.
• Application Number:
  US15/078,732
• Time in Patent Office: 1,315 Days
• Field of Search: 705 3, 705 2, 34087001, 343262, 604189, 600420, 600407, 600118, 715810
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31568 Means keeping track of the total dose administered, e.g. since the cartridge was inserted
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection

Abstract

A method, system and computer program for confirming proper medication amount for a medication injection apparatus. The computer program causes a computer to perform the steps of providing one or more instructions on a display of a computing device instructing placement of an injectable medication apparatus including an indication of an amount of medication to be injected by the in medication apparatus, imaging by an image capture one or more images of the injectable medication apparatus including the indication of the amount of medication, and comparing by a processor of the computing device through recognition of the indication of the amount of medication, the indicated amount to a predetermined amount. One or more additional instructions may be provided om the display of the computing device to change the indication of the amount of medication if it is determined that the recognized indicated amount does not match the predetermined amount.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, the computer program causing a computing device to perform operations comprising:

providing one or more first set of instructions on a display of the computing device instructing placement of a medical measurement apparatus for measurement of a medical value directly from a user including placement of a numerical indicator indicative of the measured medical value by the medical measurement apparatus within a field of view of an image capture device of the computing device;

imaging, by the image capture device of the computing device, the numerical indicator representative of the measured medical value of the medical apparatus;

comparing, through recognition of the numerical indicator representative of the measured medical value imaged by the image capture device of the computing device, the measured medical value to a predetermined amount; and

providing one or more second set of instructions on the display of the computing device to a user in response to the comparison between the measured medical value and the predetermined amount;

Wherein the computer program causes the computing device to perform operations further comprising confirming that post-measurement operation of a second medical device in response to a user following the provided one or more second set of instructions satisfies one or more criteria;

wherein the one or more first set of instructions on the display of the computing device comprise an outline of the medical measurement apparatus,

wherein the medical measurement apparatus is a glucose meter.

2. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the second medical device comprises an injectable medication apparatus.

3. The recording medium of claim 2, wherein the post-measurement operations of the injectable medication apparatus comprises injection of a medication employing a retractable needle.

4. The recording medium of claim 2, wherein an indicated amount of medication to be injected by the injectable medication apparatus comprises a numerical indication of a titration level.

5. The recording medium of claim 2, wherein the injectable medication apparatus comprises an insulin injection pen.

6. The recording medium of claim 1, wherein the computer program causes the computing device to perform operations further comprising providing one or more audio instructions accompanying the one or more first set of instructions on the display of the computing apparatus.

7. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, the computer program causing a computing device to perform operations comprising:

providing one or more first set of instructions on a display of a computing device instructing placement within a field of view of an image capture device of the computing device a medical measurement device for measurement of a medical value directly from a user including placement of one or more characters indicative of the measured medical value output from the medical measurement apparatus; and

imaging, by an image capture device of the computing device, one or more images of the displayed characters indicative of the measured medical value of the medical measurement apparatus to determine the measured medical value output from the medical measurement apparatus;

comparing the measured medical value output from the medical measurement apparatus to a predetermined value; and

in response to the comparison, providing on the display of the computing device one or more instructions for adjusting a value of a second medical device,

wherein the medical measurement apparatus is a glucose meter.

8. The recording medium of claim 7, wherein the computer program causes the computing device to perform operations further comprising changing the predetermined value in accordance with a prescription.

9. The recording medium of claim 7, wherein the computer program causes the computing device to perform operations further comprising changing the predetermined value in accordance with additional information provided by a user.

10. The recording medium of claim 7, wherein the computer program causes the computing device to perform operations further comprising changing the predetermined value in accordance with additional information provided from the medical device.

12. The recording medium of claim 7, wherein the computer program causes the computing device to perform operations further comprising confirming that post-measurement operation of the medical device satisfies one or more criteria.

13. The recording medium of claim 12 wherein the post-measurement operation of the medical device comprises retraction of a needle associated therewith.

14. The recording medium of claim 12, wherein the post-measurement operation of the medical device comprises return of an indication of a titration level to zero.

11. The recording medium of clam 10, wherein the computer program causes the computing device to perform operations further comprising:

providing one or more set of instructions on the display of the computing device instructing placement of the medical device within a field of view of an image capture device of the computing device including placement of one or more characters displayed as a measured value output from the second medical device; and

imaging, by the image capture device of the computing device, one or more images of the displayed characters by the second medical device to determine the measured value output from the medical device.

15. A system for reading a value from a medical measurement device, the system comprising:

a display of a computing device;

an image capture device; and

a processor operable to output to the display a first set of instructions instructing placement of a first medical measurement device for measurement of a medical value directly from a user including placement of one or more characters displayed by the medical measurement device indicative of the medical value measured directly from the user as a measured value output from the medical measurement device, to receive from the image capture device one or more images of the displayed characters by the medical measurement device, and to determine the medical value measured directly from the user output from the medical measurement device based on the received one or more images of the displayed characters;

wherein the processor is further operable to output to the display one or more second set of instructions to change one or more values on a second medical device responsive to the medical value measured directly from a user output from the medical device.

wherein the medical measurement device is a glucose meter.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

a transmission system operable to transmit one or more recorded data comprising an amount and time of imaging the one or more images of the displayed characters; and

a second processor located at a processing location remote from the first processor, the display and the image capture device, wherein the second processor is operable to receive the recorded data via the transmission system, process the recorded data, and provide the processed recorded data to a user.