Medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance

• US 20090281835A1
• Filed: 04/30/2009
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rajeev Pandit, Ravindra Patwardhan
• Original Assignee: Rajeev Pandit, Ravindra Patwardhan
• Inventors: Pandit, Rajeev, Patwardhan, Ravindra
• Application Number:
  US12/387,270
• Publication Number:
  US 20090281835A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0257 User requested
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance is basically envisioned and devised to simplify the programming of a reminder device, and comprises of a single device or a pair of complimentary devices. A scheduler device is meant for achieving a speedy and facilitated scheduling of a medical prescription, formatting the scheduled prescription based on format specifications compliant with the prescription reminder application program of a recipient reminder device, and transmitting the formatted scheduled medical prescription to the reminder device. When unpacked in the receiving reminder device, said format is intended for realizing the programming of the reminder device. And the programmed reminder device is capable of audio-visually reminding each dose of each medication of said prescription till compliance. Preferably, the scheduler and reminder devices are modified commonly used electronic devices, wherein either the existing hardware and/or software is suitably adapted or the requisite hardware and/or software is incorporated so as to accomplish the scheduling and reminding function. While inputting a prescription, the computing means of a scheduler device assists a prescriber by performing relational analysis and by displaying cautionary or advisory information. In addition to facilitating a doctor in scheduling a medical prescription, a means for promoting pharmaceutical products and generating revenues is included.

Claims

1. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance,

wherein scheduling means are provided for facilitating a quick scheduling of a medical prescription and for formatting and transmitting said prescription to a reminder device;

and wherein when unpacked in the reminder device, the formatted scheduled medical prescription realizes programming of the reminder device;

and wherein the programmed reminder device is capable of reminding each dose of each medication of said prescription till compliance.

2. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein said scheduling means provides facilitated scheduling of a medical prescription, and carries out formatting and transmission of said prescription, wherein said scheduling means includes a computing system and a method for facilitated scheduling of a medical prescription, said computing system comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU) to execute application programs;

a memory means for storage;

a display means for display;

said CPU interfaced to said display means and capable of displaying plurality of graphical user interfaces;

an input means for entering or accessing or searching or selecting;

input/output interface means capable of interfacing with said CPU and to an external electronic device to exchange data therewith;

transmission module comprising transceiver and transmit/receive antenna for transmitting and receiving;

said transmission module, said CPU and logic-based program including CPU-executable code loaded in said memory for formatting and transmitting said prescription to desired elements like reminder devices or data storage or pharmacy or printing means or any other computing device;

and wherein said method for facilitated scheduling of a medical prescription drives said computing system or functions on said computing system, said method comprising;

a plurality of distinct graphical user interfaces capable of operating on a computing platform configured to select and to enter mainly patient/drug related data, wherein target locales receive inputs or are meant for navigation or display or search or facilitate operations;

logic-based application program including CPU-executable code for facilitated selection and input of a drug name and drug form, and for automatically computing and inputting in terms of quantity and strength of each drug dose and/or technique of drug dose administration and/or frequency of drug doses per day and/or duration of drug administration for a selected drug, wherein recommended indication-wise and form-wise daily dosage range, recommended range of divided dosages per day,

recommended range of maintenance dosage, recommended range of duration of drug administration, drug interactions and drug safety alerts related to said selected drug are correlated, analyzed and judged with respect to inputted drug form of said selected drug and patient-specific information like age, gender, weight, clinical conditions, severity of ailment, allergy and physical status of the patient;

logic-based application program including CPU-executable code for automatically computing and inputting in terms of time of day data of each drug dose utilization time in hours and minutes, or hours, minutes, year, month, date with/without AM/PM and/or day, and/or associated food relation for a selected drug, wherein duration of absorption and systemic bioavailability of said selected drug, interactions with food pertaining to absorption and bioavailability of said selected drug, region-wise or user defined pre-programmed food intake times, and region-wise or user defined pre-programmed time relation regarding before/with/after food intake are correlated, analyzed and judged with respect to computed said quantity and strength of each drug dose and/or said technique of drug dose administration and/or said frequency of drug doses per day of said selected drug;

a program for identifying precautionary instructions related to said selected drug for inputting and for display.

3. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory means (memory) may be read-only memory (ROM) and/or random access memory (RAM) and/or erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) and/or electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) and/or magnetic/optical cards and/or any type of media suitable for storing electronic data and/or a combination of known FLASH, RAM, NV-RAM, ROM, EEPROM and/or magnetic/optical memory and/or any type of disk including hard disc, floppy disk, optical disk, CD-ROM, DVD, magnetic-optical disks, and/or may be stored in any other external storage media that could be accessed by the computing means;

and wherein said memory means is designed for storing information related to plurality of prescription drugs, wherein said plurality of prescription drugs are stored preferably in an alphanumerical or alphabetical indexed order,

wherein information related to each of said plurality of prescription drugs contains ingredient/ingredients of therapeutic agent/agents, and wherein for each therapeutic agent (generic name) information is stored regarding highlights of therapeutic actions, indications, recommended range of indication-wise and form-wise dosage, recommended range of maintenance dosage, recommended range of divided dosages, recommended range of duration of drug administration, safety alerts, contraindications, precautions, drug interactions, potential hazards, adverse effects, lab interference, and pharmacokinetics comprising duration of absorption, systemic bioavailability, activity, metabolism and elimination, interactions with food pertaining to absorption and bioavailability, region-wise or user defined food intake times, region-wise or user defined time relation regarding before/with/after food intake, and for storing patient related information, and for storing prescription data, and for storing application software including CPU-executable code and assorted operating variables and parameters for the processor, and for storing advertisements, and for storing relational datasets/databases comprising relational information related to constraints with respect to age, gender, weight, clinical conditions, allergy and physical status of a patient, drug association and drug intake versus each of the therapeutic agent.

4. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein selection of a suitable GUI screen having distinctive input regions is on the basis of manner in vogue that exists in writing a medical prescription, or on the basis of user selection, or said selection of a suitable GUI screen having distinctive input regions suitable for a selected drug form for displaying and entering related computed outputs is on the basis of selection of a drug name and/or its drug form;

wherein graphical user interfaces include insightfully designed GUI screens,

wherein each individual GUI screen has distinctive input regions suitable to display and enter relevant computed outputs of related drug form;

wherein a selected drug form may be a drug form of a tablet or a capsule or an elixirs or a liquid oral or eye/ear/nasal drops or a nasal spray or an oral spray or an oral rinse or a mouth wash or a powder or a sublingual tablet or a suppository or a gel or a pessary or a topical steroidal/non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug/drugs or an antiseptic solution or a lotion or a cream or a balms or an ointment or a subcutaneous injection or an intramuscular injection or an intravenous injection or an infusion fluid or a contrast media or a dressing appliance etc;

and wherein said outputs may be a drug form and/or quantity and strength of each drug dose and/or frequency of drug doses per day and/or time of each dose administration and/or technique of drug administration and/or food relation and/or precautionary instructions and/or duration of administration of a selected drug and/or relational analysis;

and wherein for each said drug form, a related subset of said outputs or entire set of said outputs is required to be computed.

5. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein said CPU, said memory, and application software including CPU-executable code loaded in said memory for facilitated selection and input of a drug name and/or drug form, and for automatic computing the entire set or a related subset of said outputs on the basis of selection of a drug name and/or its drug form for displaying and entering in relevant selectable input boxes of a suitable GUI screen, said facilitated selection and said automatic computing comprising:

a selectable input box for a drug name input, actuated by sequential input of initial letters of intended drug name, wherein, a drop down list of plurality of completion candidates associated with inputted letter/letters is displayed,

wherein said completion candidates are displayed in an alphabetically or alphanumerically ordered listing, and wherein narrowing criteria are associated with each successive sequential input or by actuating scrolling means enabling a user to identify, select and input the intended drug name;

a selectable input box for drug form input, actuated by selection of the drug name, wherein, a drug form is automatically selected if a single drug form exists, or a drop down list of plurality of members of drug forms related with the inputted drug name is displayed for manual selection and inputting;

and wherein a total daily drug dose is automatically computed by correlating, analyzing and judging the age, gender, weight, clinical conditions, and severity of ailment of the patient with respect to recommended indication-wise and form-wise daily dosage range and maintenance dosage range of the selected drug;

selectable input boxes for inputting the quantity and strength of each drug dose and frequency of drug doses per day, wherein said quantity and strength of each drug dose and frequency of drug doses per day is automatically determined and inputted by correlating, analyzing and judging duration of absorption, systemic bioavailability, activity, metabolism and elimination of the selected drug, recommended range of indication-wise and form-wise dosage and divided dosages per day and maintenance dosage range of the selected drug with respect to the selected drug name, drug form and said total calculated daily dose of the selected drug;

selectable input boxes for inputting the time of day data of each drug utilization time and its food relation, wherein said time of day data of each drug utilization time and its food relation is automatically determined and inputted by correlating, analyzing and judging time of day data of region-wise or user defined food intake times, region-wise or user defined time relation regarding instruction of with or before or after food intake, and interactions with food pertaining to absorption and/or bioavailability of the selected drug and its drug form with respect to said frequency of drug doses per day;

a selectable input box for automatically determining and inputting the duration of drug administration, wherein said duration is automatically determined by correlating, analyzing and judging the age, weight, clinical conditions, and severity of ailment of the patient with respect to recommended range of the duration of administration of the selected drug and its drug form;

and wherein the technique of drug dose administration is automatically determined by correlating the selected drug name and/or its drug form;

and wherein the automatically determined and inputted said quantity and strength of each drug dose and/or said technique of drug dose administration and/or said drug utilization time and its food relation and/or said frequency of drug doses per day and/or said duration of drug administration of the selected drug is alterable by manual modification;

judging and appending a precautionary instruction for the selected drug,

wherein programmed memory has pre-programmed drug safety alerts for each drug and concurrent administration of drugs;

or wherein said CPU, said memory, and application software including CPU-executable code loaded in said memory facilitating for manual input,

wherein quantity and strength of each drug dose and/or frequency of drug doses per day and/or time of each dose administration and/or technique of drug administration and/or food relation and/or precautionary instructions and/or duration of administration are manually inputted in selectable input boxes provided by said suitable GUI screen, wherein said suitable GUI screen is selected on the basis of selection of the drug name and its drug form.

6. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein said CPU, said memory, and application software including CPU-executable code loaded in said memory, assists a prescriber by performing a process of relational analysis while scheduling of a medical prescription, said process of relational analysis comprises:

said memory means for storing inputted patient related information like age, sex, weight, allergy, clinical conditions, severity of ailment, and for storing drug related information like generic name/names of currently inputted drug name, and generic name/names of previously inputted drug name/names and generic name/names of currently administered drug name/names of medication, and information pertaining to each brand name for its ingredient generic name/names of drug/drugs, and for storing relational information pertaining to incompatibility or cautionary or advisory information relating to each generic name of drug with respect to food intake, and with respect to concomitant administration of medicaments, and with respect to patient related information like age, sex, weight, allergy, physical status, clinical conditions, severity of ailment;

computing means for retrieving said drug related information and said inputted patient related information, and for performing relational analysis of retrieved drug related information with respect to retrieved inputted patient related information for identifying and displaying incompatibility and/or cautionary/advisory information comprising drug interactions, safety alerts, contraindications, precautions, potential hazards, adverse effects, food interactions and lab interference;

display means for displaying said incompatibility and/or said cautionary and/or said advisory information if any.

7. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein said CPU, said memory, and application software including CPU-executable code loaded in said memory for facilitated selection and input of pathology test/tests or radiological or physiotherapy procedure/procedures, wherein selection of the suitable request GUI screen for said facilitated selection and input is on the basis of clicking/selecting REQUEST button, said facilitated selection and input comprising:

a selectable input box for inputting a member classified under criteria, actuated by selecting the term criteria, wherein, a drop down list of members classified under said criteria like pathology, radiology, radiodiagnosis, physiotherapy are displayed enabling a user to identify, select and input the required member;

a selectable input box for selecting and inputting a name of system-wise caption classified under the inputted member of said criteria, actuated by selecting said inputted member, wherein a drop down list of system-wise captions classified under said inputted member are displayed enabling a user to identify, select and input the required name of said system-wise caption;

a selectable input box for selecting and inputting a member classified under the selected name of system-wise caption, actuated by selecting the inputted name of system-wise caption, wherein a drop down list of members classified under said inputted name are displayed enabling a user to identify, select and input the required member or members of said name of system-wise caption;

or wherein said selected request GUI screen offers a selectable input box for inputting a name of test/tests of pathology or procedure/procedures of radiology or radiodiagnosis or physiotherapy, actuated by sequential input of initial letters of intended test or procedure, wherein, a drop down list of plurality of completion candidates associated with inputted letter/letters is displayed, wherein said completion candidates are displayed in an alphabetically or alphanumerically ordered listing, and wherein narrowing criteria are associated with each successive sequential input or by actuating scrolling means enabling a user to identify, select and input the intended name of a test or a procedure;

or wherein said selected request GUI screen offers a list of available tests in pathology, procedures in radiology and radiodianosis and physiotherapy,

wherein a user can select and input the intended name/names of the required pathology test/tests or radiological/radiodiagnostic/physiotherapy procedure/procedures from the provided list.

8. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said GUI screen having distinctive input regions includes a first field of a principal zone signifying the prescription-scheduling/data-entry template and a second field of a smaller zone of one or more floating/pop-up windows for displaying an advertisement (ad) or ads,

wherein the ad/ads function like a virtual medical representative,

wherein each stored ad is preferably either linked to a generic/brand name of a drug or linked to a clinical condition or related to a sponsor company specific medicinal or surgical or diagnostic product or symbol or logo;

and wherein the stored advertisements for display comprise sponsor related messages and/or audiovisual ads and/or visual ads and/or ads containing textual and graphical material and/or images and/or URL addresses of the sponsor;

wherein any of the drug-name/clinical-condition related ad or any of the ad field may have a single or multiple sponsors permanently or temporarily associated with it;

and wherein a linked ad is displayed as soon as a related drug name or a related clinical condition is selected/inputted;

and wherein the instant a subsequent clinical condition or a subsequent drug name is selected/entered, an ad/ads linked to that entered clinical condition or drug name respectively are displayed;

and wherein displaying of ad/ads preferably continue till the entire prescription is scheduled or till the scheduling software is active/functioning.

9. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein while scheduling of a prescription, for each inputted/deleted entry related to each medication like name, form, dosage, technique of drug administration, time of medication, frequency, food relation, precautionary instructions, and duration of administration, a text and symbol section (TSS) is updated simultaneously by inserting/removing respectively a corresponding text and/or symbol data and/or time of day data associated with each dose of each medication along with data related to duration of administration;

wherein said TSS comprises scheduled prescription display data, which includes textual data of name of drug, textual and/or symbolic data for drug form like tablet or capsule, textual and/or symbolic data for dosage strength, textual and/or symbolic data for technique of drug administration like oral or injectable or intravaginal or sublingual etc and/or textual/symbolic data for precautionary instruction for each dose of each medication;

and wherein said TSS comprises scheduled prescription time data, which includes time of day data that identifies each drug dose utilization time preferably in hours, minutes, with year, month, date, with/without AM/PM and/or day, or hours, minutes and AM/PM for each dose of each drug, and time data that identifies the duration of administration of each drug.

10. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein formatting of a scheduled medical prescription in a transmittable format for transmission comprising:

CPU, coupled with programmed memory preprogrammed therein with logic-based program including CPU-executable code, for formatting a scheduled medical prescription so as to realize said programming of a receiving reminding device;

wherein a programmed dosage schedule file is generated comprising said scheduled prescription display data and said scheduled prescription time data;

wherein application programs compliant with said reminder device are generated for attachment to said programmed dosage schedule file for concomitant reminding by means of alarm and display for each dose of each medication at timed occurrence of each drug utilizing time, wherein instructions are included for programming the programmable clock of the reminder device for each time of day of each dose of each medication for actuating the alarm means and for displaying related text and/or symbol data, or wherein instructions are included for central processing unit of the reminder device for keeping track of current standard-time, regularly comparing said current standard-time with drug utilization time for each dose of each medication (dosage schedule data), and upon the timed occurrence of an administration time specified in the dosage schedule data, to generate an alarm signal and to display related text and/or symbol data;

wherein said programmed dosage schedule file with/without attachment of said application programs forming content data and combining said content data with related metadata containing information and/or instructions regarding said content data to form an input scheduler file;

wherein formatting said input scheduler file based on format instructions and based on format specifications compliant with the recipient reminder device and/or its scheduled medical prescription reminder application program to form formatted scheduled medical prescription (FSMP);

and formatting said formatted scheduled medical prescription in a transmittable format for transmission in a reminder device or for downloading in a reminder device or on a storage medium like flash card or SIM card to be used by a reminder device;

or wherein CPU, coupled with programmed memory preprogrammed therein with logic-based program including CPU-executable code, for formatting a scheduled medical prescription in a transmittable format for transmission to a printer or a database or a computing device or a pharmacy.

11. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein said scheduling means is a modified computing device, wherein either the existing hardware/software is suitably adapted or the requisite hardware/software is incorporated so as to accomplish the scheduler function, and wherein said modified computing device is modification of a personal computer or a desktop computer or a laptop computer or a handheld computer or a pocket personal computer or a terminal or other computers or hand-held devices such as personal digital assistants or palmtop computers or digital diaries and the like, or a dedicated scheduler device, or a cellular/mobile phone or a smart phone or a personal handy phone or a telephone, or other devices or computing devices capable of providing an input signal to the command processor, or a computing device which can utilize any appropriate computer readable medium having computer-executable instructions/code like hard disks or CD-ROMs or magnetic/optical storage devices etc to execute the scheduler function;

or wherein a dedicated scheduler device includes said scheduling means;

or wherein a dedicated/modified device includes said scheduling means along with reminding means providing reminding function for reminding a patient to take each dose of each medication of said prescription.

12. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein said reminder device provides receiving means for receiving said formatted scheduled medical prescription and reminding means for providing reminding function for reminding a patient to take each dose of each medication of said prescription, wherein reminding alerts being timed to coincide with scheduled prescription time data to alert the patient for required dosage compliance, said reminder device comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU) to execute various application programs;

a transmit/receive antenna connected to transceiver for transmitting and receiving signals;

transceiving means for transmission and for receiving said formatted scheduled medical prescription via wireless or wired communication;

means for verifying sender verification of received said formatted scheduled medical prescription;

an input/output means for user interaction;

a programmable real time clock (RTC) means or an on-chip RTC or a timer for counting time;

a memory means for storage;

reminding means comprising said CPU coupled with said RTC or said timer and said memory preprogrammed therein with an intrinsic/received CPU-executable application software for carrying out the reminding function at timed occurrence of each prescribed administration time till compliance;

acknowledgment means, interfaced to said CPU, for generating an acknowledgment signal;

a switch for terminating/snoozing a generated alarm signal.

13. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein execution of said reminding function comprising:

said reminding means for regularly tracking the current time and scheduled prescription time data of received said formatted scheduled medical prescription and for regularly comparing current time with each prescribed administration time specified in said scheduled prescription time data for employing reminding function at timed occurrence of each prescribed administration time;

or alternatively, said reminding means for programming programmable real time clock means for setting and sounding alarms consistent with the received formatted scheduled medical prescription, wherein alarm settings in the real time clock device include alarm time in hours, minutes and AM/PM, or hours, minutes, year, month, date with/without AM/PM and/or day specified for each dose of each medication for employing reminding function till compliance;

alarm signal generating means for generating a dosage alarm signal at timed occurrence of each prescribed administration time as specified in said scheduled prescription time data for alerting a user;

wherein said alarm signal actuating audio alarm means for audio signal emission like beep/buzzer/ring upon the actuation thereof and/or light means for illuminating/blinking upon the actuation thereof and/or vibrator means for vibrating the housing upon the actuation thereof;

and wherein said alarm signal actuating display means for visually displaying dose/doses of medication to be administered at that time instant,

wherein pertinent data related to said dose/doses as specified in said scheduled prescription display data is displayed in graphical and/or symbolic and/or alphanumeric textual representation, which includes textual data of name of drug and/or textual or symbolic data for drug form like tablet or capsule and/or textual or symbolic data for dosage strength and/or textual data of precautionary instruction/instructions and/or textual or symbolic data for technique of administration like oral or injectable.

14. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the absence of said intrinsic application software in said reminder device, realization of said reminding function comprising:

said receiving means of said reminder device receiving a formatted scheduled medical prescription, wherein instructions to perform reminding function are embedded, which are compatible with hardware of said reminder device, and wherein similar to the way a virus is triggered by a host system, the embedded instructions have to be activated/triggered for their execution, and wherein the triggering/activation and execution of said embedded instructions could either be done by inputting a suitable command or by default upon mere downloading said prescription, and wherein upon triggering/activation, said instructions utilize said scheduled prescription time data and said scheduled prescription display data contained in received said prescription to perform the reminding function, wherein the performance of said function is independent of said intrinsic application software or independent of operating system platform of said reminding device;

or the received formatted scheduled medical prescription encloses an attached application software for reminding function, which is detached in said reminding device after downloading of said prescription and is stored in the memory as an application program, and wherein said software reads said scheduled prescription time data and said scheduled prescription display data from received said prescription and utilizes it to perform reminding function.

15. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein said reminding device is a modified electronic device, wherein;

either the existing hardware and/or software is suitably adapted or the requisite hardware and/or software is incorporated so as to accomplish the receiving and reminding function, and

wherein said modified electronic device is a portable telephone like a cellular/mobile phone or a smart phone or a personal handy phone or a car telephone or a telephone or a maritime mobile radiotelephone or a pager or the likes, or wrist-worn devices, or a timepiece or a wristwatch, or hand-held device such as personal digital assistant or palmtop computer or digital diary or personal/laptop computer or interactive phone devices or household appliances or a television or a television set top box or handheld computers or other computers and the like or other devices capable of bearing and implementing the reminding application;

or wherein said reminding device is a dedicated reminding device including said receiving function and said reminding function.

16. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance as claimed in claim 1, wherein for effective reminding, said CPU coupled with said memory in said scheduler means or said reminder device for switching the text element/elements of said scheduled prescription display data from prescriber'"'"'s language (first language) to a patient'"'"'s language (second language), said switching comprising:

said text element/elements of said scheduled prescription display data are words/numbers like tablet, capsule, brand/generic drug name, ‘

2’

, ‘

500 mg’

, precautionary instruction like ‘

do not drive’

etc to be displayed in said reminder device;

relational memory means for storing relational data of electronically stored translations for realizing the switching between several languages;

inputs means for specifying said second language and commanding the switching of said element/elements in said first language to said second language;

access means for addressing said memory means for identifying each said text element/elements representing a first language and retrieving related text element/elements representing a second language equivalent in meaning to said text element/elements of first language;

said CPU replacing said text element/elements representing said first language by retrieved related text element/elements representing a second language and thus switching entire text element/elements of said scheduled prescription display data from said first language to said second language;

or wherein a translation software is embedded in said FSMP to facilitate translation operation from first language to second language as per the language settings of the reminding device.

17. A programmed computer product, wherein computer usable program code means to carry out scheduler function are embodied in computer usable storage medium, said programmed computer product comprising:

a recording medium;

means, recorded on recording medium, for storing information related to plurality of prescription drugs and pharmacological information related to constraints regarding each generic name of drug with respect to patient related information like age, gender, weight, clinical conditions, allergy, physical status, and for storing relational information related to drug intake and drug association, and for storing advertisements related to generic/brand name of drugs or clinical conditions;

means, recorded on recording medium, for storing logic-based processor-readable application programs including CPU-executable code/instructions compliant with the processing system of a host;

means, recorded on recording medium, for directing the processing system to install graphical user interfaces operable on a computing platform and configured to select and enter mainly patient/drug related data, wherein target locales receive inputs or are meant for navigation or for search or for facilitate operations, wherein each GUI screen of said graphical user interfaces is an insightfully designed GUI screen having distinctive input regions, and wherein selection of a suitable GUI screen from said graphical user interfaces is on the basis of a preferred sequence or on the basis of selected drug and/or its drug form or on the basis of user inputs;

means, recorded on recording medium, for directing the processing system to identify inputted patient-specific information like age, gender, weight, clinical conditions, severity of ailment, allergy and physical status of the patient, and to identify inputted drug specific information like currently administered drug/drugs including currently inputted (prescribed) drug/drugs;

means, recorded on recording medium, for directing the processing system to utilize said recorded logic-based application program including CPU-executable code and said information related to prescription drugs and generic name of drugs for facilitated selection and input of a drug name and its drug form and for automatically computing and inputting in terms of quantity and strength of each drug dose and/or technique of drug dose administration and/or frequency of drug doses per day and/or duration of drug administration for the selected drug, wherein stored recommended indication-wise and form-wise daily dosage range, recommended range of divided dosages per day, maintenance dosage range, recommended range of duration of drug administration, and drug interactions and drug safety alerts related to said selected drug are correlated, analyzed and judged with respect to identified patient-specific information like age, weight, clinical conditions, severity of ailment, allergy and physical status of the patient;

means, recorded on recording medium, for directing the processing system to utilize said application program and said information related to prescription drugs and generic name of drugs for automatically computing and inputting time of day data of each drug dose utilization time in hours, minutes and AM/PM, or hours, minutes, year, month, date, with/without AM/PM and/or day and/or associated food relation for said selected drug,

wherein duration of absorption, systemic bioavailability of said selected drug, and interactions with food pertaining to absorption and/or bioavailability of said selected drug, region-wise or user defined pre-programmed food intake times, and region-wise or user defined pre-programmed time relation regarding before/with/after food intake are correlated, analyzed and judged with respect to the judged frequency of drug doses per day of said selected drug;

means, recorded on recording medium, for directing the processing system to utilize stored said application program, said relational information and said information related to prescription drugs and generic name of drugs for performing relational analysis of said drug-specific information with respect to said identified patient-specific information for identifying and displaying incompatibility and/or cautionary/advisory relational information comprising drug interactions, safety alerts, contraindications, precautions, potential hazards, adverse effects, food interactions and lab interference, and for judging and appending precautionary instructions for said selected drug and/or concurrent administration of drugs;

means, recorded on recording medium, for directing the processing system to utilize said stored advertisements for display, wherein each advertisement is linked either to a generic/brand name of a drug or to a clinical condition, and wherein a linked advertisement is displayed in an advertisement zone or in one or more floating/pop-up windows once a related drug name or clinical condition is selected/inputted;

means, recorded on recording medium, for directing the processing system to utilize said application program for formatting the scheduled medical prescription based on format specifications compliant with a recipient reminder device or its prescription reminder application program and transmitting the formatted scheduled medical prescription to a reminder device;

means, recorded on recording medium, for directing the processing system to utilize said application program for formatting and transmitting the scheduled medical prescription to desired elements like data storage or pharmacy or printing means or any other computing device;

wherein said recording medium may be a computer readable medium like ROM or RAM or NV-RAM or FLASH or EPROM or EEPROM or magnetic/optical cards or any type of media suitable for storing electronic data or magnetic/optical memory or any type of disk including hard disc, floppy disks, optical disks, CD, DVD, magnetic-optical disks, or any other external storage media that could be accessed by a computing means or other media like writeable compact discs or digital versatile discs;

and wherein said product can be updated or transferred or shared using any suitable recording medium or using any communication link like internet or bluetooth.

18. A programmed computer product as claimed in claim 17,

wherein said selection of a suitable GUI screen having distinctive input regions suitable for a selected drug name and/or its drug form for displaying and entering related computed outputs is on the basis of selection of said drug name and/or its drug form;

wherein said graphical user interfaces include plurality of insightfully designed GUI screens having distinctive input regions suitable to display and enter respective computed outputs of various drug forms;

wherein a drug form may be a drug form of a tablet or a capsule or an elixirs or a liquid oral or eye/ear/nasal drops or a nasal spray or an oral spray or an oral rinse or a mouth wash or a powder or a sublingual tablet or a suppository or a gel or a pessary or a topical steroidal/non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug/drugs or an antiseptic solution or a lotion or a cream or a balms or an ointment or a subcutaneous injection or an intramuscular injection or an intravenous injection or infusion fluids or a contrast media or dressing appliance etc;

and wherein said outputs may be a drug form and/or quantity and strength of each drug dose and/or frequency of drug doses per day and/or time of each dose administration and/or technique of drug administration and/or food relation and/or precautionary instructions and/or duration of administration of a selected drug and relational analysis pertaining to the selected drug;

and wherein for each inputted drug name and/or its drug form, a related subset of said outputs or entire set of outputs is required to be computed.

19. A programmed computer product as claimed in claim 17,

wherein said facilitated selection and input of a drug name and/or its drug form and said automatically computing and inputting said outputs in relevant selectable input boxes of said suitable GUI screen comprising:

a selectable input box for drug name input, actuated by sequential input of initial letters of intended drug name, wherein, a drop down list of plurality of completion candidates associated with inputted letter/letters is displayed,

wherein said completion candidates are displayed in an alphabetically or alphanumerically ordered listing, and wherein narrowing criteria are associated with each successive sequential input or by actuating scrolling means enabling a user to identify, select and input the intended drug name;

a selectable input box for drug form input, actuated by selection of the drug name, wherein, a drug form is automatically selected if a single drug form exists, or a drop down list of plurality of members of drug forms related with the inputted drug name is displayed for manual selection and inputting;

a total daily drug dose is automatically computed by correlating, analyzing and judging the recommended indication-wise and form-wise daily dosage range and maintenance dosage range of said selected drug with respect to patient related information like age, gender, weight, clinical conditions, and severity of ailment;

selectable input boxes for inputting the quantity and strength of each drug dose and frequency of drug doses per day, wherein said quantity and strength of each drug dose and said frequency of drug doses per day is automatically determined and inputted by correlating, analyzing and judging recommended range of indication-wise and form-wise dosage and divided dosages per day and maintenance dosage range of said selected drug with respect to said selected drug form and said total calculated daily dose;

selectable input boxes for inputting the time of day data of drug utilization time and its food relation, wherein said time of day data of drug utilization time and its food relation is automatically determined and inputted by correlating and analyzing time of day data of region-wise or user defined food intake times, region-wise or user defined time relation regarding instruction of before or with or after food intake, duration of absorption, systemic bioavailability, activity, metabolism and elimination of the selected drug, and interactions with food pertaining to absorption and/or bioavailability of the selected drug with respect to selected said drug name and its drug form, said quantity and strength of each drug dose and said frequency of drug doses per day;

a selectable input box for automatically determining and inputting the duration of drug administration, wherein said duration is automatically determined by correlating, analyzing and judging the age, weight, clinical conditions, and severity of ailment of the patient with respect to selected drug name, drug form, said calculated total daily dose, recommended range of maintenance dosage and recommended range of the duration of administration of the selected drug;

wherein the technique of drug dose administration is automatically determined by correlating the selected drug name and/or drug form;

and wherein the automatically determined and inputted said quantity and strength of each drug dose and/or said technique of drug administration and/or said drug utilization time and/or said food relation and/or said frequency of drug doses per day and/or said duration of drug administration of the selected drug are manually alterable for fine tuning or modification;

if indicated, appending precautionary instructions by correlating, analyzing and judging drug safety alerts for the selected drug and current concurrent administration of drugs with respect to said patient related information.

20. A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance comprising of a complimentary pair of devices, wherein a scheduler device is for simplifying the programming of a reminder device and a reminding device is for reminding each dose of each medication till compliance.