Dynamic medication and protocol manager for home

Abstract

A mobile device (7) executes an application program (7a) to perform a chronic disease management support method including the operations of: maintaining a disease management schedule of self-care tasks including at least a medication schedule; displaying a time interval (420) of the disease management schedule including icons (422) representing self- care tasks to be performed during the time interval; generating an alert when the time for a self- care task arrives; recording at the mobile device whether each self-care task is performed on schedule; and in response to user selection of an icon representing a self-care task via a user interface of the mobile device, displaying information pertaining to the self-care task represented by the icon. The display may include an analog clock face (420) representing a twelve-hour time interval which indicates a current time, with superimposed icons (422)representing self-care tasks to be performed during the twelve-hour time interval.

Description

technical field [0001] The following generally relates to systems and methods for assisting patients at home in following their treatment procedures. Background technique [0002] A common goal of medical care for chronic conditions that are not (or may not be) curable or may recur is to enable a person to carry on a normal life at home regardless of their condition (or despite their high likelihood of recurrence). For this reason, even patients with relatively serious chronic medical conditions (eg, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic heart failure (CHF), depressive-manic depression, clinical depression, pain management, etc.) Stayed in hospital, or was discharged after a brief hospitalization during which their condition stabilized. When the patient goes home, they are given tasks to perform to provide self-care for the chronic condition. Such tasks may include (using diabetes as an exemplary chronic condition): administering insulin injection...

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Problems solved by technology

However, such systems can be cumbersome, do not automatically update, and often only address one aspect of patient self-care (e.g., pill box organizers assist in organizing oral medication intake, but not other aspects such as insulin injections, diet, etc.) monitoring and blood glucose monitoring)

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