MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20140236606A1
• Filed: 02/18/2013
• Published: 08/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University For Health Sciences, National Guard Health Affairs
• Original Assignee: King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University For Health Sciences, National Guard Health Affairs
• Inventors: SUWAIDAN, SALEM AL, ALBATHI, IBRAHIM
• Application Number:
  US13/769,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20140236606A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• 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 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

The medication management system is divided into hospital server, pharmacy server, and patient mobile device. The hospital server and pharmacy server contain all patient active and inactive medication profiles. The hospital software runs on the hospital server, which is an intermediary between the pharmacy software (PMR—Pharmacy Medication Records) and the patient software. The platform can communicate with different types of pharmacy data bases and software, and at the same time can be used as a type of an encoding and decoding platform to convert from one pharmacy database to anther automatically and eliminate the long tedious effort done by humans to do it manually.

Claims

1. A medication management system, comprising:

a plurality of disparate pharmacy databases;

a pharmacy server in communication with the disparate pharmacy databases;

a hospital server in communication with the pharmacy server and adapted to aggregate medication data from the pharmacy server;

means for extracting pharmacological dosing instructions from the medication data aggregated by the hospital server;

means for sending the pharmacological dosing instructions to an end user mobile device through a wireless network.

2. The medication management system according to claim 1, further comprising means for storing all patient information, including active and inactive medication profiles, the active medication profiles being stored to maintain a record of medications patients are currently on, the inactive medication profiles being stored to maintain a record of medications patients have historically been on.

3. The medication management system according to claim 1, wherein said wireless network is a cellular telecommunications network implementing General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) data transfers, said means for sending encoding the pharmacological dosing instructions for GPRS data transmission.

4. The medication management system according to claim 1, wherein said wireless network includes data transmission by Bluetooth protocol, said means for sending encoding the pharmacological dosing instructions for transmission by Bluetooth.

5. The medication management system according to claim 1, wherein said wireless network is a cellular telecommunications network implementing short message service (SMS) text messaging, said means for sending encoding the pharmacological dosing instructions for transmission by SMS.

6. The medication management system according to claim 1, wherein said wireless network is a Wi-Fi network implementing wireless computer data transmission over the Internet through a wireless local area network (WLAN), said means for sending encoding the pharmacological dosing instructions for transmission by Wi-Fi.

7. The medication management system according to claim 1, wherein said means for sending includes means for sending the pharmacological dosing instructions by voice transmission.

8. The medication management system according to claim 1, wherein said means for extracting pharmacological dosing instructions includes means for extracting the pharmacological dosing instructions by labeling medicine according to a numbering system accepted by the plurality of disparate pharmacy databases and the pharmacy server.

9. The medication management system according to claim 1, further comprising means for automatically updating patient doses through communication without need of the patient visiting the hospital.

10. The medication management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for tracking and following patient medication and dosage and patient compliance with a specified dosing regimen; and

means for distributing the tracking and patient compliance information to the pharmacy server.

11. The medication management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for communicating with a plurality of pharmacy database applications associated with said plurality of disparate pharmacy databases; and

means for encoding and decoding to convert from any one of said disparate pharmacy databases to any other of said disparate pharmacy databases.

12. The medication management system according to claim 1, further comprising means for updating dose remaining for the patient to take via computation based on patient medication records accessible to said pharmacy server.

13. The medication management system according to claim 1, wherein said means for sending includes means for sending the pharmacological dosing instructions by voice transmission, the medical management system further comprising means for transmitting the pharmacological dosing instructions in a language designated by the end user.