MEDICATION MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING TECHNOLOGY

• US 20140354435A1
• Filed: 08/18/2014
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alarm.com Inc. (Alarm.com Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Alarm.com Inc. (Alarm.com Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hanson, Mark Andrew, Manson, Elizabeth Leslie
• Granted Patent: US 9,070,267 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2505/07 Home care
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0242 adapted to measure environmental factors, e.g. temperature, pollution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1113 Local tracking of patients, e.g. in a hospital or private home
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1128 using image analysis A61B5/1127 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4833 Assessment of subject's compliance to treatment
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 12/00 Accommodation for nursing, e.g. in hospitals, not covered by groups A61G1/00 - A61G11/00, e.g. trolleys for transport of medicaments or food service or tea-tables, trolleys or wagons A47B31/00; Prescription lists
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0069 Trays for holding or distributing medicines display trays A47F3/14; serving trays A47G23/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0418 with electronic history memory
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0427 with direct interaction with a dispensing or delivery system
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0481 working on a schedule basis
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/049 automatically changing in response to a schedule deviation by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 23/00 Alarms responsive to unspecified undesired or abnormal conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

Medication management and reporting technology, in which output from at least one sensor configured to sense physical activity in a building in which medication of a patient is located is monitored and a determination is made to capture one or more images of the medication based on the monitoring. A camera is used to capture an image of the medication and the captured image is analyzed to detect a state of the medication. Information regarding a schedule by which the medication should be taken by the patient is accessed and an expected state of the medication is determined. The detected state is compared with the expected state and a determination is made that the patient has departed from the schedule based on the comparison revealing that the detected state does not match the expected state. A message indicating the departure from the schedule is sent based on the determination.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

monitoring output from at least one sensor configured to sense physical activity in a building in which medication of a patient is located;

based on the monitoring of output from the at least one sensor, determining to collect additional information regarding the medication, the additional information being different than output from the at least one sensor;

based on the determination to collect the additional information regarding the medication, collecting the additional information regarding the medication;

analyzing the additional information collected to detect a state of the medication at a time of collecting the additional information;

accessing information regarding a schedule by which the medication should be taken by the patient;

based on the accessed information regarding the schedule, determining an expected state of the medication at the time of collecting the additional information that complies with the schedule by which the medication should be taken by the patient;

comparing the detected state of the medication with the expected state of the medication that complies with the schedule;

based on the comparison revealing that the detected state of the medication does not match the expected state of the medication, determining that the patient has departed from the schedule; and

based on the determination that the patient has departed from the schedule, handling, by a processing device, the departure from the schedule.