REMOTE MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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Abstract
An integrated medication management and compliance system for enabling a care provider to remotely manage and deliver individual doses of medications to a patient, in a non-sequential fashion. The system includes delivery apparatus remotely located from the care provider, wherein the apparatus stores a plurality of sealed unit dose packages that are delivered to a patient at a scheduled dosing time. The delivery apparatus is coupled to a control facility and to a computer terminal of the care provider by way of a secure communications network. The system enables the patient'"'"'s medication regimen to be remotely tailored in real-time to accommodate fluid medical conditions.
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65 Claims
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1-55. -55. (canceled)
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56. A method for controlling operation of a medication delivery unit capable of storing at least one medication carrier, the method comprising:
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determining expiration information for at least one medication stored in the at least one medication carrier; determining that the at least one medication is no longer usable based on the expiration information; and inhibiting, by the medication delivery unit, delivery of the at least one medication based on the determination that the at least one medication is no longer usable. - View Dependent Claims (57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
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65-76. -76. (canceled)
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