System and Method for Locating Errors in the Distribution of Prescribed Pills in an Organizer Box of Sequential Compartments Holding the Pills Therein

• US 20170076441A1
• Filed: 09/10/2015
• Published: 03/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Julius Bernard Kraft, Teri Lynn Peterson
• Original Assignee: Julius Bernard Kraft
• Inventors: Peterson, Teri Lynn, Kraft, Julius Bernard
• Application Number:
  US14/850,172
• Publication Number:
  US 20170076441A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0084 for multiple medicaments
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/04 Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS

Abstract

Enabling a user to determine whether any set of pills, stored in a physical sequential line of storage compartments with each of the sequential storage compartments having a respective set of pills, is the correct respective set of pills for the compartment.

Claims

1. A computer controlled display method for enabling a user to determine whether any set of pills, stored in a physical sequential line of storage compartments, wherein each of said sequential storage compartments has a respective set of pills, is the correct respective set of pills for the compartment comprising:

storing the visual image of each of a plurality of pills which may be displayed;

entering an identifier for each of the plurality of pills to be physically stored in said sequential line of storage compartments; and

generating, from the identifiers, a display image of said sequential line of compartments including the pills therein corresponding to said physical sequential line of storage compartments grid,

wherein said user is enabled to visually compare the content of any storage location in said physical sequential line of storage compartments to a corresponding visual image of the compartment to validate the content of the compartment,

2. The method of claim 1, further including:

capturing the visual image of said physical sequential line of storage compartments; and

using the captured image for said visually compare.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said compare step is carried out automatically in said computer controlled display.

4. The method of claim 1, further including generating an alarm upon a compare failure.

5. The method of claim 4, further including highlighting at least one pill image in any visual sequential line of storage compartments upon a failure to compare.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein

each of compartments in said physical sequential line of storage compartments includes the set of pills which should be consumed at a current time period, and

the need for prescription of pills at a future time period may be indicated by a compare failure for a storage compartment including the set of pills to be consumed at said, future time period.

7. The method of claim 1 further including highlighting any displayed storage compartment at which there is a change of the pill content.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein

a provider that supplies the pills to be placed in said compartments carries out said compare step;

and

in response to a failure to compare, supplies pills necessary to correct the failure.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said computer controlled display is a specific purpose handheld display provided by said provider.

10. A computer controlled system for enabling a user to determine whether any set of pills, stored in a physical sequential line of storage compartments, wherein each of said sequential storage compartments has a respective set of pills, is the correct respective set of pills for the compartment comprising;

a processor; and

a computer memory holding computer program instructions which when executed by the processor perform the method comprising;

storing the visual image of each of a plurality of pills which may be displayed;

entering an identifier for each of the plurality of pills to be physically stored in said sequential line of storage compartments; and

generating, from the identifiers, a display image of said sequential line of compartments including the pills therein corresponding to said physical sequential line of storage compartments grid,

wherein said user is enabled to visually compare the content of any storage location in said physical sequential line of storage compartments to a corresponding visual image of the compartment to validate the content of the compartment.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said method further includes:

capturing the visual image of said physical sequential line of storage compartments; and

using the captured image for said visually compare.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein said compare step in said method is carried out automatically in said computer controlled display.

13. The system claim 10, wherein said method further includes generating an alarm upon a compare failure,

14. The system of claim 13, wherein said method father includes highlighting at least one pill image in any visual sequential line of storage compartments upon a failure to compare.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein

each of compartments in said physical sequential line of storage compartments includes the set of pills which should be consumed at a current time period, and

the need for prescription of pills at a future time period may be indicated by a compare failure for a storage compartment including the set of pills to be consumed at said future time period.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein said method further includes highlighting any displayed storage compartment at which there is a change of the pill content.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein

a provider that supplies the pills to be placed in said compartments carries out said compare step;

and

in response to a failure to compare, supplies pills necessary to correct the failure.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein said computer controlled display is a specific purpose handheld display provided by said provider.

25. The computer usable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the computer program when executed further causes the highlighting of any displayed storage compartment at which there is a change of the pill content.

19. A computer usable non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon a computer readable program for enabling a user to determine whether any set of pills, stored in a physical sequential line of storage compartments, wherein each of said sequential storage compartments has a respective set of pills, is the correct respective set of pills for the compartment, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:

store the visual image of each of a plurality of pills which may be displayed;

enter an identifier for each of the plurality of pills to be physically stored in said sequential line of storage compartments; and

generate, from the identifiers, a display image of said sequential line of compartments including the pills therein corresponding to said physical sequential line of storage compartments grid,

wherein said user is enabled to visually compare the content of any storage location in said physical sequential line of storage compartments to a corresponding visual image of the compartment to validate the content of the compartment.

20. The computer usable non-transitory storage medium of claim 19, wherein the computer program when executed further causes the computer to:

capture the visual image of said physical sequential line of storage compartments; and

use the captured image for said visually compare.

21. The computer usable non-transitory storage medium of claim 20 wherein the computer program when executed said compare to be carried out automatically in said computer controlled display.

22. The computer usable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the computer program when executed further causes the computer to generate an alarm upon a compare failure.

23. The computer usable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the computer program when executed further causes the computer to highlight at least one pill image in any visual sequential line of storage compartments upon a failure to compare.

24. The computer usable storage medium of claim 23, wherein

each of compartments in said physical sequential line of storage compartments includes the set of pills which should be consumed at a current time period, and

the computer program when executed indicates the need for a prescription of pills at a future time period by a compare failure for a storage compartment including the set of pills to be consumed at said future time period.

26. A method for enabling a user to determine whether any set of pills, stored in a physical sequential line of storage compartments, wherein each of said sequential storage compartments has a respective set of pills, is the correct respective set of pills for the compartment comprising:

storing the image of each of a plurality of pills;

entering an identifier for each of the plurality of pills to be physically stored in said sequential line of storage compartments; and

generating, from the identifiers, an image of said sequential line of compartments including the pills therein corresponding to said physical sequential line of storage compartments;

wherein said user is enabled to visually compare the content of any storage location in said physical sequential line of storage compartments to a corresponding image of the compartment to validate the content of the compartment.