Pharmaceutical Packaging and Method for Delivery of Same
First Claim
1. A multi-unit dose package (MUDP) for containing a plurality of different pill medications, the package comprising:
- a container zone with at least two distinct compartments;
each of said compartments separated from another by a thin partition; and
a plurality of pills, each pill a different medicament and each of said compartments containing at least one pill, said plurality of pills constituting a multi-unit dose.
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Abstract
A disease management system including: a Diagnostic Module, which provides access to patient information and scientific guidelines for patient treatment; a Diagnostic Interpretive Module, which provides tools to evaluate risk of particular diseases or conditions based on patient information and an evaluative methodology; a Prescriptive Module, which is used to recommend, select, and/or evaluate one or more treatment regimens based on patient information and guidelines; a Dispensing Module, which evaluates a patient'"'"'s compliance with a treatment regimen; and/or a Feedback and Patient Management Module, which gathers compliance information and evaluates efficacy of a treatment regimen for a patient. In embodiments of the subject invention, some or all of the modules described can communicate to manage a disease, medical condition, and/or health problem in a patient.
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43 Claims
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1. A multi-unit dose package (MUDP) for containing a plurality of different pill medications, the package comprising:
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a container zone with at least two distinct compartments; each of said compartments separated from another by a thin partition; and a plurality of pills, each pill a different medicament and each of said compartments containing at least one pill, said plurality of pills constituting a multi-unit dose. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. The MUDP of claim 5, wherein each of said compartments is pie-segment shaped and configured such that when viewed from above said container zone appears to have a circular circumference.
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6. A method for providing a customized patient treatment, comprising:
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identifying a multi-unit dose of a plurality of medicaments customized to a patient based on a clinical protocol assessing risks of that patient, the plurality of medicaments comprising an aspirin or a PLAVIX and at least one pill-form medicament selected from the group consisting of a diuretic, an ACE inhibitor, a statin, a triglyceride inhibitor, and a metformin; providing a treatment supply container comprising a plurality of multi-unit dose packages (MUDPs), each MUDP comprising said plurality of medicaments; and transmitting said treatment supply container to the patient from a location remote from the patient. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. A selection system for selecting a treatment regimen from a plurality of treatment regimens, comprising:
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a memory for storing one or more matrices describing the plurality of treatment regimens; an access module for accessing the matrices stored in memory and displaying at least a primary grid portion of at least one of the matrices; a display control module for expanding and contracting the at least the primary grid portion for displaying the primary grid, a secondary, a tertiary, and a full matrix; a selection module for displaying the full formula for a selected treatment regimen from a grid location according to input from a user; and an output module for outputting information about the selected treatment regimen to a peripheral device. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A disease management system, comprising:
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a selection system for selecting a treatment regimen based on an evaluation of a patient; and a dispensing module for dispensing the selected treatment regimen to the patient. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A compliance monitoring device, comprising:
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at least one sensor, wherein each of the at least one sensor is configured to monitor a patient'"'"'s compliance with an aspect of a therapy regimen; and a compliance tracking module, wherein the compliance tracking module is configured to interpret signals received from one or more of the at least one sensor to produce compliance information, wherein the compliance information produced comprises an indication of the patient'"'"'s compliance or noncompliance with the aspect of the therapy regimen. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A system for using compliance information, comprising:
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at least one compliance monitoring device, wherein each of the at least one compliance monitoring device produces compliance information regarding at least one patient, wherein the compliance information produced for each of the at least one patient comprises an indication of the patient'"'"'s compliance or noncompliance with at least one aspect of at least one therapy regimen; and a compliance manager module, wherein the compliance manager module processes the compliance information, generates at least one compliance report, and transmits the at least one compliance report to a corresponding at least one user. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A method of determing a compliance score, comprising:
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receiving compliance information from at least one source, wherein the compliance information comprises an indication of a patient'"'"'s compliance or noncompliance with a therapy regimen; and determing a compliance score based on the compliance information. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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