MEDICATION SERVICE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF MONITORING THE SAME

• US 20130290010A1
• Filed: 09/14/2012
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Choi, Jae Hun, Park, Soo Jun, Lim, Myung-eun
• Application Number:
  US13/620,646
• Publication Number:
  US 20130290010A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients

Abstract

The inventive concept herein relates to medication service terminals and methods of monitoring the same, and more particularly, to a method of monitoring medication states of a plurality of users. The medication service terminal in accordance with the inventive concept may include a situation judgment module judging a medication situation with reference to a medication providing schedule and a terminal state that are provided from a server; and an output module determining a medication service corresponding to the medication situation and providing the determined medication service in the form that a user can sense. A communication with the server is performed only when the situation judgment module receives a medicine providing schedule from the server. According to some embodiments of the inventive concept, a medication monitoring system can be effectively provided to a massive user.

Claims

1. A medication service terminal comprising:

a situation judgment module judging a medication situation with reference to a medication providing schedule and a terminal state that are provided from a server; and

an output module determining a medication service corresponding to the medication situation and providing the determined medication service in the form that a user can sense,

wherein a communication with the server is performed only when the situation judgment module receives a medicine providing schedule from the server.

2. The medication service terminal of claim 1, wherein the stored medicine code is detected and if the detected medicine code does not correspond to the terminal state, a communication connection with the server is formed and the medicine code is provided to the server.

3. The medication service terminal of claim 2, wherein the server extracts the medicine providing schedule corresponding to the provided medicine code.

4. The medication service terminal of claim 3, wherein after a communication connection with the server is formed, the medicine providing schedule extracted from the server is provided.

5. The medication service terminal of claim 1, wherein the outcome of the medication service corresponding to the provided medication service is detected and the detected outcome of the medication service is provided to the server.

6. The medication service terminal of claim 1, wherein the medicine providing schedule is stored in a schedule DB inside the server.

7. A method of monitoring medication comprising:

a step that a medication service terminal senses a medicine code and a terminal state;

a step that a server stores a medication schedule; and

a step that if the medicine code does not correspond to the terminal state, the server provides the medication schedule corresponding to the medicine code to the medication service terminal.

8. The method of claim 7, if the medicine code does not correspond to the terminal state, further comprising a step that the medication service terminal provides the medicine code to the server.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising a step that the medication service terminal determines a corresponding medication service with reference to the provided medication schedule and the terminal state and the determined medication service is provided in the form that a user can sense.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising a step that the medication service terminal senses the outcome of the medication service and provides the sensed outcome of the medication service to the server.