Medication compliance and management device

Abstract

A medication dispenser is provided which includes compartments uniquely arranged with respect to time, for example, by time of day and/or day of week. Each compartment may contain pills in accordance with a pharmaceutical regimen such that consuming the pills within the compartments at the appropriate time as arranged with respect to time may maintain a patient's compliance with the pharmaceutical regimen. Additionally, a medication compliance and management method is provided which includes the steps of a) reviewing a pharmaceutical regimen of a patient to reduce a complexity of the pharmaceutical regimen, b) providing a quantity of medication dispensers in accordance with the reviewed pharmaceutical regimen with pills of the pharmaceutical regimen organized within the medication dispensers to further reduce the complexity of the pharmaceutical regimen, c) tracking the quantity of provided medication dispensers to determine when the quantity of medication dispensers will be depleted, d) contacting a prescribing doctor to obtain authorization to refill additional medication dispensers, and e) delivering refilled medication dispensers to the patient.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] Not Applicable STATEMENT RE: FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH / DEVELOPMENT [0002] Not Applicable BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] The present invention relates generally to a medication dispensing method, and more particularly to a medication dispenser and to a method of aiding patients to remain compliant with a complicated pharmaceutical regimen by providing the patient with a quantity of medication dispensers, tracking the quantity of medication dispensers in possession of the patient, contacting a prescribing doctor to obtain authorization to refill additional medication dispensers, and delivering refilled medication dispensers to the patient. [0004] In life, unfortunate conditions occur such that people become hospitalized and / or require medication. The medication needed may have to be taken over the course of a patient's lifetime or merely for a short interim period while the patient is recovering. In either case, the patient at time...

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Benefits of technology

[0014]FIG. 3 is the medication dispenser of FIG. 1 in an assembled perspective view and illustrates pi...

Problems solved by technology

In life, unfortunate conditions occur such that people become hospitalized and/or require medication.

However, if the patient must take more than a few different types of pills, then the consumption requirement for the aggregate of all the pills in...

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