Methods and Systems for Medication Management

• US 20110225004A1
• Filed: 04/26/2011
• Published: 09/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Carespeak Communications, Inc. (Optimizerx Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Carespeak Communications, Inc. (Optimizerx Corporation)
• Inventors: Loncar, Srdjan
• Application Number:
  US13/094,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20110225004A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage

Abstract

A method of monitoring a patient'"'"'s compliance with a medication regimen may include identifying a patient, identifying a medication prescribed to the patient and determining one or more intake times associated with the medication. For each intake time, an alert reminding the patient to take the medication may be generated, and the alert may be transmitted to a mobile device associated with the patient. Receipt of the alert by the mobile device may trigger one or more of an audible alarm, a visual alarm and a tactile alarm on the mobile device. If an indication of compliance is not received from the mobile device within a predefined period of time, a caregiver associated with the patient may be notified.

Claims

1. A method of locating one or more members registered with a health manager, the method comprising:

maintaining, by a computing device, a database comprising a plurality of members registered with a health manager;

receiving, by a computing device, a search query comprising one or more search criteria, wherein the search criteria comprise one or more of the following;

a name,

a diagnosis,

an illness,

address information,

a geographic region;

for each member in the plurality of members;

comparing the one or more search criteria to a profile associated with the member, wherein the profile comprises one or more of the following;

a name associated with the member,

a diagnosis associated with the member,

an illness associated with the member,

address information associated with the member, and

a geographic region associated with the member,

determining whether the member satisfies the search query based on the associated profile, and

if so, identifying the member as a match; and

displaying the profile of each identified member to a user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the profile of each identified member comprises displaying one or more of the following:

an embedded link to an email address associated with the member; and

an embedded link to a phone number associated with the member.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of one or more identified members; and

initiating communication between the user and the one or more identified members.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection of one or more identified members; and

displaying information received from the user in an area that is accessible to the one or more identified members.