MEDICATION ADHERENCE DEVICE AND COORDINATED CARE PLATFORM

• US 20160342767A1
• Filed: 05/19/2016
• Published: 11/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WatchRx, Inc.
• Original Assignee: WatchRx, Inc.
• Inventors: Narasimhan, Jayanthi, Buduri, Arun
• Granted Patent: US 10,902,946 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A method of supporting user adherence to a medication regimen includes storing received medication information associated with one or more medications using a patient wearable device and a coordinated care platform. The method also includes displaying identification and dosing information associated with the medications, generating a notification indicating that the identification information is being displayed, monitoring a response input indicating that the medications have been administered. For each of the one or more medications displayed, the method includes generating a medication status describing that either (i) the medication has been administered or (ii) the response has not been received. The method further includes generating a reminder notification when the medication status indicates that the response has not been received. The method may further include gathering behavioral data points associated with the user for submission to the coordinated care platform, which performs predictive analytics based on the data points.

Claims

1. A method of supporting adherence, of a user, to a medication regimen, comprising:

by a wearable computing device capable of stand-alone, independent operation, the wearable computing device including a display and an embedded cellular transceiver;

storing received medication information that characterizes one or more medications, including at least medication identification information and dosing information, associated with each of the one or more medications;

displaying medication identification information and dosing information associated with at least one of the one or more medications;

generating an initial notification indicating that the medication identification information is being displayed;

monitoring a response input instrumentality configured to receive a response indicating that the at least one of the one or more medications has been administered; and

for each of the one or more medications displayed, generating a medication status describing that either (i) the medication has been administered or (ii) the response has not been received.

2. The method of claim 1, further including generating a reminder notification when the medication status indicates that the response has not been received, by:

re-displaying medication identification information and dosing information associated with one or more medications referenced in the reminder;

generating a subsequent notification indicating that the medication identification information is being displayed;

monitoring the response input instrumentality; and

for each of the one or more medications referenced in the reminder, generating an updated medication status describing that either (i) the medication has been administered or (ii) the response has not been received.

3. The method of claim 2, further including repeating the reminder notification periodically until:

(i) all of the at least one medications have been administered;

or

(ii) a predetermined time period has elapsed since generation of the initial notification.

4. The method of claim 3, further including providing the reminder notification by playing a voice recording generated by a caregiver.

5. The method of claim 3, further including repeating the reminder notification at intervals of about 10 minutes.

6. The method of claim 3, further including notifying a caregiver after the predetermined time period has elapsed.

7. The method of claim 1, further including detecting an incoming communication from a caregiver, generating a notification of the incoming communication, and monitoring an incoming communication acceptance input instrumentality configured to receive an accept response that causes the wearable computing device to accept the incoming communication.

8. The method of claim 7, further including automatically accepting an incoming telephone call when the incoming communication acceptance input instrumentality does not receive an accept response within a predetermined time interval.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the incoming communication is an R_U_OK alert.

10. The method of claim 1, further including automatically connecting to a healthcare device, receiving health information from the healthcare device, storing the health information and forwarding the health care information to a caregiver.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the identification information and dosing information includes an image associated with the at least one of the one or more medications, the image including a depiction of a vehicle by which the medication is administered, the vehicle instantiated a number of times corresponding to the dosing information.

12. The method of claim 1, further including activating a camera integrated into the wearable computing device, the activating occurring in response to a camera stimulus.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the camera stimulus includes one or more of (i) a camera activation communication received from a caregiver, (ii) the medication status indicates that the response has not been received.

14. The method of claim 1, further including synchronizing the wearable computing device by receiving and storing updated medication information.

15. The method of claim 1, further including determining geolocation of the wearable computing device in relation to a predetermined area, and notifying a caregiver when the geolocation is determined to be outside of the predetermined area.

16. The method of claim 1, further including:

(i) detecting that the user has fallen by analyzing an output of one or more accelerometers embedded in the wearable computing device;

(ii) notifying a caregiver upon detecting that the user has fallen.

17. A method of monitoring and analyzing behavior of a patient, and providing predictive analytics therefrom, comprising:

by a coordinated care system including a patient wearable device (PWD), a caregiver application and a webserver;

gathering, by the PWD, behavioral data associated with the patient and conveying the behavioral data from the PWD to the webserver;

analyzing, by the webserver, the behavioral data to determine one or more behavioral trends;

comparing the determined behavioral trends to one or more historical behavioral information to identify a behavioral anomaly; and

sending an alert to the caregiver application when a behavioral anomaly is identified.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein analyzing the behavioral data includes determining a compliance index and an engagement index using an exponential weighted moving average.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the behavioral data includes one or more of (i) position information based on sensor outputs, (ii) response information based on reaction of the patient to reminder information, (iii) vitals information collected by the PWD.

20. The method of claim 17, further including determining, based on the behavioral data, that an emergency event has occurred, and in response to the determining, notifying appropriate emergency response personnel.