APPARATUS, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRESCRIBING, ADMINISTERING AND MONITORING A TREATMENT REGIMEN FOR A PATIENT

• US 20080275738A1
• Filed: 07/01/2008
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Craig P. Shillingburg
• Original Assignee: Craig P. Shillingburg
• Inventors: Shillingburg, Craig P.
• Application Number:
  US12/166,074
• Publication Number:
  US 20080275738A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers

Abstract

A treatment Device is provided which enables a Doctor/Pharmacist to provide patient specific instructions in a textual format to a patient. The instructions are converted by a speech synthesizer provided in the Device into an audibly perceptible format. When configured as a hand-held unit, the Device may store a plurality of medications. Upon activation or automatically, instructions saved in the device are communicated to a patient/user via various audible, visual and/or tactile indicators. The instructions are provided to the device via a Platform which enables Doctors and Pharmacists input instructions into the Platform, which, via a Platform interface, are saved into a storage device provided in the Device. In an additional embodiment, a removable medication dispensing cartridge is provided which facilitates the controlled and automatic dispensing of a medication to a patient based upon a treatment schedule. Patient compliance information with a treatment schedule may be provided by the Device.

Claims

1. A method for tracking a medical treatment regimen, comprising the operations of:

receiving, by an electronic device, medical data relating to a patient'"'"'s medical treatment regimen;

outputting, by the electronic device, at least one reminder to comply with the medical treatment regimen;

monitoring, by the electronic device, the patient'"'"'s compliance with the medical treatment regimen;

storing, by the electronic device, compliance data related to the patient'"'"'s compliance with the medical treatment regimen; and

providing the compliance data from the electronic device to a medical professional.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving at least one instruction to modify at least one of the medical data and the at least one reminder; and

in response thereto, modifying at least one of the medical data and the at least one reminder.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the operation of modifying at least one of the medical data and the at least one reminder is at least partially based on the compliance data.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the operation of providing the compliance data from the electronic device to a medical professional comprises providing the compliance data to a location remote from the electronic device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the operation of receiving at least one instruction to modify at least one of the medical data and the at least one reminder is provided from a location remote to the electronic device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the operation of receiving at least one instruction to modify at least one of the medical data is executed across a secure communications channel.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising the operation of accessing, by the electronic device, external medical research data from at least third one party medical information provider.

8. A method of administering a medical database, comprising the operations of:

accessing a medical database;

inputting medical data including at least one of a patient information or a pharmaceutical information;

inputting a patient treatment regimen;

reviewing patient compliance data related to the patient treatment regimen, said patient compliance data provided to the medical database from an electronic device located remotely to the medical database; and

modifying the patient treatment regimen based at least partially on the patient compliance.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the electronic device comprises a hardware device, comprising:

an input element for receiving the patient treatment regimen; and

an output element for communicating the patient compliance data to the medical database.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the electronic device further comprises:

a reminder element for issuing at least one reminder to the patient to comply with the patient treatment regimen;

an acknowledgement element to generate the patient compliance data.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

issuing the at least one reminder from the reminder element;

receiving, via the acknowledgement element, an acknowledgement of compliance with the reminder; and

storing the acknowledgement as patient compliance data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the acknowledgement is generated by the patient.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the acknowledgement is generated automatically by the electronic device.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the acknowledgement is generated automatically by the electronic device in response to a patient interaction with the electronic device.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the operation of modifying the patient treatment regimen based at least partially on the patient compliance comprises remotely downloading, to the electronic device, a modification to the patient treatment regimen from the medical database.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the operation of modifying the patient treatment regimen occurs automatically upon receipt of the patient compliance data by the medical database.