Method and system for measuring medication and automatic loading of a database

• US 9,909,849 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2015
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omnicell Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Aesynt, Inc. (Omnicell Incorporated)
• Inventors: Eckert, Robert, Young, Kirk
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Paul D
• Application Number:
  US14/599,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20160206514A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,142 Days
• Field of Search: 702158
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/00 Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons calibrated capacity measures for fluids or fluent solid material G01F19/00; weighing spoons G01G19/56; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 3/205 provided with a counter for digital indication of the measured dimension
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers

Abstract

A system and method for measuring medication includes providing a graphical user interface (GUI) including a representation of a medication or a medication container. An indication to measure at least one dimension of the medication or the medication container is provided in the GUI. At least one signal including at least one measured dimension of the medication or the medication container is received by one or more processors that process and store the at least one measured dimension. The at least one measured dimension is provided in the GUI in association with the indication to measure the at least one dimension of the medication or the medication container.

Claims

1. A system for measuring medication, the system comprising:

at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium in communication with one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

providing a graphical user interface (GUI) including a representation of a medication or a medication container;

providing in the GUI an indication to measure at least one dimension of the medication or the medication container;

receiving at least one signal comprising at least one measured dimension of the medication or the medication container;

processing the at least one measured dimension;

storing the at least one measured dimension;

providing the at least one measured dimension in the GUI in association with the indication to measure the at least one dimension of the medication or the medication container;

dynamically setting at least one dynamic tolerance threshold based at least partly on at least one previously measured dimension of the medication or the medication container currently being measured; and

automatically providing a prompt in the GUI to check the at least one measured dimension based on the at least one dynamic tolerance threshold, wherein the prompt indicates the at least one dimension in the representation of the medication or the medication container.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the indication to measure the at least one dimension of the medication or the medication container comprises at least one marking in the GUI indicating the dimension on the representation of the medication or the medication container.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the at least one marking in the GUI comprises at least one lead line and at least one arrow.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing the at least one measured dimension comprises determining that the measured dimension fails to satisfy the at least one dynamic tolerance threshold.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing the at least one measured dimension comprises calculating a derived value based at least partly on the at least one measured dimension, and wherein the derived value is another dimension of the medication or the medication container.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors perform operations comprising:

receiving information indicating a type of the medication or the medication container.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the representation is based at least partly on the information indicating the type of the medication or the medication container.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the receiving the information comprises at least one of scanning a barcode on the medication or the medication container and capturing an image of the medication or the medication container.

9. The system of claim 7, further comprising:

a digital caliper configured to electronically measure the at least one measured dimension and transmit the at least one measured dimension to the one or more processors via a communications interface, wherein the medication or medication container includes the medication container, wherein the prompt includes an instruction on how to place the digital caliper on the medication container to measure the at least one dimension, and wherein the instruction is based at least partly on the type of the medication container.

10. A method for measuring medication, the method comprising:

providing, by one or more processors, a graphical user interface (GUI) including a representation of a medication or a medication container;

providing, by the one or more processors, in the GUI an indication to measure at least one dimension of the medication or the medication container;

receiving, by the one or more processors, at least one signal comprising at least one measured dimension of the medication or the medication container;

processing, by the one or more processors, the at least one measured dimension;

storing, by the one or more processors, the at least one measured dimension; and

providing, by the one or more processors, the at least one measured dimension in the GUI in association with the indication to measure the at least one dimension of the medication or the medication container; and

dynamically setting, by the one or more processors, at least one dynamic tolerance threshold based at least partly on at least one previously measured dimension of the medication or the medication container currently being measured; and

automatically providing, by the one or more processors, a prompt in the GUI to check the at least one measured dimension based on the at least one dynamic tolerance threshold, wherein the prompt indicates the at least one dimension in the representation of the medication or the medication container.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the indication to measure the at least one dimension of the medication or the medication container comprises at least one marking in the GUI indicating the dimension on the representation of the medication or the medication container.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one marking in the GUI comprises at least one leader line and at least one arrow.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the processing the at least one measured dimension comprises determining that the measured dimension fails to satisfy the at least one dynamic tolerance threshold.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the processing the at least one measured dimension comprises calculating a derived value based at least partly on the at least one measured dimension, and wherein the derived value is another dimension of the medication or the medication container.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving, by the one or more processors, information indicating a type of the medication or the medication container.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the representation is based at least partly on the information indicating the type of the medication or the medication container.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

measuring, by a digital caliper, the at least one measured dimension, wherein the medication or medication container includes the medication container, wherein the prompt includes an instruction on how to place the digital caliper on the medication container to measure the at least one dimension, and wherein the instruction is based at least partly on the type of the medication container; and

transmitting, by the digital caliper, the at least one measured dimension to the one or more processors via a communications interface.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the receiving the information comprises at least one of scanning a barcode on the medication or the medication container and capturing an image of the medication or the medication container.