DRUG DISPENSING-TRACKING DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20150290396A1
• Filed: 10/22/2013
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2012
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: InsuLine Medical Ltd.
• Original Assignee: InsuLine Medical Ltd.
• Inventors: Nagar, Ron, Bitton, Gabriel, Fadlun, Moshe
• Application Number:
  US14/438,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20150290396A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/18 with alarm
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3306 Optical measuring means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3327 Measuring
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3561 local, e.g. within room or hospital
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/50 with microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/52 with memories providing a history of measured variating parameters of apparatus or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/581 by audible feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/582 by tactile feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/583 by visual feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31535 Means improving security or handling thereof, e.g. blocking means, means preventing insufficient dosing, means allowing correction of overset dose
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3202 Devices for protection of the needle before use, e.g. caps A61M5/50 takes precedence; for infusion spikes A61M5/1626; protectors for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/50 having means for preventing re-use, or for indicating if defective, used, tampered with or unsterile retractable needles or needle protectors with means for preventing re-use A61M5/321
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2200/087 Ergonomic aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/022 Transponder chips
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/023 Sending and receiving of information, e.g. using bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/0627 Sensor or part of a sensor is integrated
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/0672 Integrated piercing tool
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/0293 for liquids
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/10 using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 : delivered from dispensers

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure present systems, methods and devices related to the tracking of drugs injected by injection devices. For example, in some embodiments, a drug dispensing-tracking device for use in combination with a drug-injection device is provided, where the device comprises a sleeve configured to connect with at least one mechanical feature provided on the injection device, a battery, at least one sensor, an electrical circuit for analog or digital short range communication, and a transmission element. In some embodiments, for each injection, the sensor is configured to automatically detect at least one of an auditory signal, movement, and optical signal, and an auditory signal is generated by at least one of the setting of the injection device for dispensing a drug, the dispensing action of the injection device, and the flow of the drug out of the injection device.

Claims

1. A drug dispensing-tracking device for use in combination with a drug-injection device, the device comprising:

a sleeve configured to connect with at least one mechanical feature provided on the injection device;

a battery;

at least one sensor;

an electrical circuit for analog or digital short range communication;

a transmission element;

wherein, for each injection, the sensor is configured to automatically detect at least one of an auditory signal, movement, and optical signal, and

the auditory signal is generated by at least one of the setting of the injection device for dispensing a drug, the dispensing action of the injection device, and the flow of the drug out of the injection device.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises at least one of a microphone, a vibration sensor, an accelerometer, a rotational sensor, a magnetic sensor, and an electromagnetic sensor.

4. The device of claim 1, further comprising a processor and/or a memory,

wherein the transmission element comprises a transponder, and wherein:

the sensor generates a second signal in response to the detected signal,

the processor converts the second signal to data, and

the data is wirelessly transmitted via the transponder to an external unit.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the external unit is selected from the group consisting of a glucose meter, a computer, a smartphone, a tablet, and a treatment device worn on the skin of a user to treat an injection site to improve the pharmacodynamics of the drug during a period of delivery of the drug to the user.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein the external unit analyzes the data to determine the amount of drug injected.

8. The device of claim 3, wherein the external unit includes a memory, and the data is stored in the memory along with time information corresponding to at least one of the date and time of a respective injection.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the data further comprises an identifier of the injection device.

16. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a switch for enabling the sensor for sensing.

17. The device according to claim 16, wherein the switch comprises a magnetic switch and wherein the magnetic switch comprises a magnet and a magnetic sensor.

18. The device according to claim 16, wherein the switch is positioned in, on or adjacent to a rotating element of the injection device and wherein the rotating element comprises a cap of the injection device.

22. The device according to claim 1, wherein the injection device includes a rotating cap adjacent a body of the injection device, and wherein the sensor is arranged with the cap, and configured to generate a signal in response to rotation of the cap.

23. The device according to claim 1, wherein the injection device includes a dose window which displays dose information set for injecting into a user, and the sensor comprises a CCD configured to capture the dose information from the dose window.

24. The device according to claim 23, further comprising an optical element which is configured with the sleeve to be arranged adjacent the dose window.

25. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a processor and/or a memory, wherein:

the sensor generates a second signal in response to the detected signal,

the processor converts the second signal to data, and

the data is stored in the memory.

28. The device of claim 1, further comprising a switch that can be toggled between two or more states, wherein the states comprise at least two of:

a state for turning on the device, a state indicating the direction of injection device movement as it is set by the user to the amount of the injected drug, a state indicating re-adjustment of an amount of drug before injection, a state indicating the drug is to be injected.

30. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a switch for turning on the device, wherein the switch is located adjacent a removable, cap of the injection device, and wherein upon removal of the injection device cap, the device is switched on wherein upon placing the cap back onto the injection device, the device is switched off.

32. The device according to claim 1, wherein the injection device includes a cap and the sleeve is configured with two sections connected together before and at the time of placement of the tracking device on the injection device, and wherein upon removal of the cap from the injection device, the two sections are separated resulting in two separate sections.

33. The device according to claim 32, wherein each of the two sections of the sleeve is provided with at least a portion of a pin and the at least a portion of the pin is configured to operate a switch.

34. The device according to claim 32, wherein separation of the two sections is such that their removal from the device results in two separate parts which are thereafter incapable of being connected together.

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35. A method for tracking dispensing of a drug from an injection device, the method comprising:

providing a dispensing tracking device, the device comprising a sleeve configured to connect with at least one mechanical feature provided on the injection device, a battery, at least one sensor, and

detecting at least one of an auditory signal, movement, and an optical signal generated by at least one of the setting of the injection device for dispensing a drug, the dispensing action of the injection device, and the flow of the drug out of the injection device.

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48. A system for injecting and tracking a drug, the system comprising:

a device for tracking the dispensing of a drug injected by an injection device, the device comprising;

a sleeve configured to connect with at least one mechanical feature provided on the an injection device;

a battery;

at least one sensor;

a transmission element;

a processor; and

a memory, wherein for each injection, the sensor is configured to automatically detect at least one of an auditory signal, movement, and optical signal generated by at least one of the setting of the injection device for dispensing a drug, the dispensing action of the injection device, and the flow of the drug out of the injection device;

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an external unit includes a memory, wherein;

the sensor generates a second signal in response to the detected signal,

the processor converts the second signal to data, and

the data is wirelessly transmitted via the transmission element to the external unit.