240 results about "Drug supply" patented technology

A device for delivering a drug by inhalation is disclosed. The device includes a body defining an interior flow-through chamber having upstream and downstream chamber openings, and a drug supply unit contained within the chamber for producing, upon actuation, a heated drug vapor in a condensation region of the chamber. Gas drawn through the chamber region at a selected gas-flow rate is effective to form drug condensation particles from the drug vapor having a selected MMAD between 0.02 and 0.1 MMAD or between 1 and 3.5 μm. A gas-flow control valve disposed upstream of the unit functions to limit gas-flow rate through the condensation region to the selected gas-flow rate. An actuation switch in the device activates the drug-supply unit, such that the drug-supply unit can be controlled to produce vapor when the gas-flow rate through the chamber is at the selected flow rate.

Drug supply units are disclosed which comprise substrates having a plurality of holes formed therein.

Heating units, drug supply units and drug delivery articles capable of rapid heating are disclosed. Heating units comprising a substrate and a solid fuel capable of undergoing an exothermic metal oxidation reaction disposed within the substrate are disclosed. Drug supply units and drug delivery articles wherein a solid fuel is configured to heat a substrate to a temperature sufficient to rapidly thermally vaporize a drug disposed thereon are also disclosed.

A care system and associated methods are provided for alleviating patient pain, anxiety and discomfort associated with medical or surgical procedures. The system comprises: at least one patient health monitor device coupled to a patient and generating a signal reflecting at least one physiological condition of the patient; a drug delivery controller supplying one or more drugs to the patient; a memory device storing a safety data set reflecting parameters of at least one patient physiological condition; and an electronic controller interconnected between the patient health monitor, the drug delivery controller and the safety data set. The electronic controller is capable of effecting a change in the drug supply delivered to the patient and the generation of current signals by the patient health monitor device depending on a comparison between at least one patient physiological condition at its corresponding value reflected in the safety data set.

A patient care management system for assisting a physician in monitoring drug use by a patient. The system receives drug dispensation data for a drug, on the basis of which the system determines drug supply availability data. The drug supply availability data is indicative of periods of time during which the drug was available in non-duplicate supply, or in oversupply, or in insufficient supply. The periods of time are displayed with respect to a common time base. Each degree of supply availability is visually displayed via a graphical user interface using, e.g., a color coded scheme, so as to be distinguishable by a user. This allows a physician to rapidly assess over-consumption or compliance problems. Plural drugs may be monitored on a single display screen. The system may also be adapted to allow an prescribing physician to assess refill compliance, hospitalization periods and prescription drug costs.

A care system and associated methods are provided for alleviating patient pain, anxiety and discomfort associated with medical or surgical procedures. The system comprises: at least one patient health monitor device coupled to a patient and generating a signal reflecting at least one physiological condition of the patient; a drug delivery controller supplying one or more drugs to the patient; a memory device storing a safety data set reflecting parameters of at least one patient physiological condition; and an electronic controller interconnected between the patient health monitor, the drug delivery controller and the safety data set. The electronic controller is capable of effecting a change in the drug supply delivered to the patient and the generation of current signals by the patient health monitor device depending on a comparison between at least one patient physiological condition at its corresponding value reflected in the safety data set.

The invention provides a fruit tree imitating precision spraying locomotive, which can imitate fruit trees, in particular the shape of leaf crown layer of fruit trees to spray, to reduce droplet drift and improve working efficiency. The invention comprises a motor vehicle, the chassis of the motor vehicle is provided with a fan supporting rod standing at one side of a crown, the fan supporting rod is connected with a transverse moving power mechanism driving the fan supporting rod to move along the chassis in the transverse direction; the fan supporting rod is fixed with a sleeve rod, a rotary guiding rod is rotationally connected in the sleeve rod; the rotary guiding rod is connected with a rotary power mechanism driving the rotary guiding rod to rotate; an imitated spraying rod for enveloping the upper part and the other side of the crown is hinged on the rotary guiding rod, the rotary guiding rod is connected with an up-down lifting power mechanism driving the rotary guiding rod to swing around the engagement point; a fan blowing to the crown is arranged on the fan supporting rod and the imitated spraying rod, the fan is provided with a spray head; and the spray head is connected with a drug supplying pipe serially connected with a drug spraying pump.

The displacement of refill valves in an implantable drug delivery device is reduced to permit the housings of a drug delivery device to remain compact in size while permitting reservoirs of increased depth to be used. In a preferred embodiment, a collapsible link is provided as a telescoping member incorporating a coil spring. As the valve is pulled into contact with its seat, a detectable pressure increase is sensed in the refill device. In accordance with the invention, as the drug supply contained in the reservoir depletes, the reservoir surface moves towards a collapsed position, compressing the coil spring and eventually contacting the valve stem, thereby lifting the valve from its seat. By virtue of telescoping link, the valve stem length and therefore the valve travel may be reduced as compared to prior art devices, thus eliminating the need for increased housing depth when deeper reservoirs are used. The collapsible link may be comprised of a second spring combined with a telescoping link. The second spring is situated on a side of the valve opposite the telescoping link, thereby providing a downward force on the valve and valve stem. As an other alternative, the invention provides a lever arm for actuating the refill valve. A pivot for the lever arm is situated near the refill valve and a distal end of the lever arm maintained in contact with the reservoir surface using a spring bias. An intermediate portion of the lever arm engages the valve stem. Thus, as the reservoir surface moves towards the collapsed position, the displacement of the valve is a fraction of the displacement of the distal end of the lever arm.

A drug delivery apparatus includes a mouthpiece portion having an internal conduit for delivering an aerosol including the drug to the patient. The internal conduit has an inlet end and a mouthpiece end that is structured to be received in the patient's mouth. The mouthpiece portion is structured to operate at a substantially fixed inhalation flow rate when the patient inhales through the mouthpiece end. The apparatus further includes an aerosol generator for generating the aerosol from a drug supply and injecting the aerosol into a first region within the mouthpiece portion located between an outlet of the aerosol generator and the inlet end of the conduit. The mouthpiece portion also includes a flow accelerating mechanism that causes a localized flow rate at the first region to be greater than the inhalation flow rate. A method is also provided that increases the local flow rate within the mouthpiece portion.

Aiming at the lack of an integrated micro-fluidic chip capable of realizing capture, culture and batch differential administration of single cells simultaneously in the prior, the invention provides an integrated micro-fluidic chip and system for capture, culture and administration of single cells and belongs to application of micro-fluidic chip technologies to the field of cell pharmacology analysis. The integrated micro-fluidic chip comprises a cell capture and culture unit, a drug diffusion unit and a drug supply unit, which are sealed in sequence from top to bottom; the system employing the integrated micro-fluidic chip comprises the integrated micro-fluidic chip, a fluorescence microscope, image processing equipment and a digital injection pump. A preparation method of the integrated micro-fluidic chip comprises the following steps: photo-etching baseplate plane figures on the silicon plates of the three units to etch grooves, pouring a liquid chip material into the grooves, and obtaining the three units after the liquid chip material is solidified; conducting sealing bonding and punching to obtain the integrated micro-fluidic chip. The integrated micro-fluidic chip provided by the invention integrates the three functions of capture, culture and batch differential administration of single cells and effectively avoids sample contamination.

The invention provides a drug supply device and a drug inspection method in the drug supply device. The drug supply device provided with: a hopper that collects solid drugs discharged from a tablet case based on specified prescription data; an inspection device that inspects the solid drugs introduced from said hopper; and a packaging device that fills and packages the inspected solid drugs in a wrapping sheet. The inspection device is provided with: an inspection container that holds the solid drugs discharged from the hopper in single doses; a movement mechanism for moving the inspection container; and an imaging device for imaging the solid drugs inside the inspection container. When, as a result of imaging and inspecting the solid drugs using the imaging device, the number of solid drugs inside the inspection container differs from the prescription data, said solid drugs are discarded. When the number of solid drugs matches the prescription data, the solid drugs are packaged by the packaging device.

A medical management system. The burdensome task of medication logging is greatly reduced for a patient when compared to conventional methods to perform these tasks. Moreover, the invention allows for pharmaceutical supplier / providers and healthcare providers the ability better to manage, track, and trend the medication and products that must be provided to patients. This integrated ability allows for better management of the inventory of highly perishable and life-saving medications for chronically ill patients. The invention also allows for highly accurate communication between patients and other parties including his / her medical doctor, a pharmaceutical supplier / provider who provides medications and products for the patient, as well as the insurance provider providing medical insurance coverage for the patient. The system integrates embedded functionality that ensures that in the accidental event that a patient is prescribed tainted medication, the patient is warned of the taint in due time before self-administering the medication to avoid potentially contracting a disease or other ailment from the tainted medication. Patient medication is tracked and trending over the lifetime of the medication and the treatment period for the patient. Exceptions that outlay the trending of the patient's medication are identified and properly communicated, sometimes automatically, to a healthcare provider or medical doctor who treats the patient. The system is adaptable for use generally or to treat specific diseases, such as chronic diseases as hemophilia, diabetes, asthma, HIV, and other diseases requiring long term treatment and ongoing administration of medications and products.

The invention provides an automated pharmacy drug storage control and management system, which comprises a control subsystem and a management subsystem. The storage management subsystem is used for drug storage space distribution and storage space management and has two functions, i.e. a storage space management function and a storage space distribution function. The storage space management function is used for inquiry and modification of the drug storage space state, wherein the storage space state comprises three modes, i.e. occupied, idle and faulty. The storage space distribution function is used for distribution of storage space of newly added drugs and supplemented drugs. The storage control subsystem is used for controlling storage operations of a Cartesian coordinate robot and a cartridge clip type drug supply manipulator. The storage space can be distributed automatically according to drugs to be stored, drugs can be automatically delivered into specified storage tanks, the labor can be saved greatly, the labor intensity of pharmacists in storage operations can be reduced, and the system has good application prospects.

An implantable drug delivery apparatus for delivering a drug into a bodily fluid in a bodily cavity of a patient over a period of time includes a drug supply reservoir to supply drug into a delivery channel and an actuator for delivering the drug to a predetermined location in the bodily cavity of the patient, such as, for example, a cochlea of a human ear. The drug is loaded into the delivery channel while producing substantially negligible flow at an outlet of the delivery channel.

An extended, box-like, metal, industrial size, rapidly deployable, food, medicine and water container employing an intermodal shipping container, or other similar article of manufacture, for safely and reliably transporting and / or storing relatively large quantities of food, medicine and potable water for a substantial period of time (7+days), useful for such delivery / storage in emergencies, disasters, etc. The container includes a potable water tank and compartments for the storage of food and / or medicine.

The invention provides an intelligent drug tracing system which comprises a drug corresponding management module, a newly increased drug information management module, an in-out storage type management module, a distribution supervision code management module and a receipt hand in management module. On the basis of two-dimensional codes, the whole process from the production to the sale of the drugs are supervised and traced; various distribution means of the drugs undergo code scanning and recording to be uploaded to a server so as to be put on records for query. The intelligent drug tracing system abides by the related laws and regulations of drug management, uniquely identifies each drug to prevent the drug from being counterfeited, and shares the circulation information in supply links with the trade partners so as to improve the efficiency of the drug supply links, trace the sources, the trade and the owner information of the drugs and decrease the condition of counterfeiting the drugs.

Drug supply units are disclosed which comprise substrates having a plurality of holes formed therein.

The present invention has an object to provide a drug packaging device including a printing unit configured to perform printing by jetting ink and being capable of performing the printing on a packaging paper with high printing quality without including a support, base or the like for the packaging paper. A drug packaging device (10) includes a drug supply unit (20), a packaging unit (30), a packaging paper conveying unit (40), and a printing unit (60). The printing unit (60) includes an ink ejection unit (62) capable of ejecting ink downward. A conveyance path (T) of the packaging paper conveying unit (40) includes: an intersecting-direction conveyance section (T1) for conveying a packaging paper (S) in a direction intersecting an ejection direction of the ink; and a first conveyance direction switching section (46) and a second conveyance direction switching section (48) for changing the conveyance direction of the packaging paper (S) on upstream and downstream, respectively, of the intersecting-direction conveyance section (T1) in a conveyance direction of the packaging paper (S). The ink ejection unit (62) is arranged, at a position spaced, apart upward from the intersecting-direction conveyance section (T1) by a predetermined distance.

The present invention provides a method of combining the operation of a respirator and a nebulizer for respiratory therapy. In one example, the method includes the steps of: (1) providing a control unit in communication with the respirator and the nebulizer, and configuring the control unit to respond to one or more ventilation control parameters associated with respiratory therapy obtaining a control value; (2) operating the ventilator to provide respiratory therapy to a patient; and (3) generating a modification signal from the control unit to automatically change operating conditions of the nebulizer based on the control value. In another example, the method includes the steps of: (1) providing a control unit in communication with the respirator and nebulizer; (2) operating the respirator and nebulizer to provide respiratory therapy to the patient, at a predetermined delivery periodically operating the nebulizer; and (3) generating a modification signal from the control unit to automatically change operating conditions of the respirator based on operation of the nebulizer.

The invention provides a drug supply control system. Patient information parameters, disease information parameters and drug information parameters are input through a data input unit; the drug, the dosage and the infusion speed required for treatment of a patient at the current time can be obtained through a dosage analysis unit according to the information parameters in combination with historical treatment information data of the patient stored in a storage unit; after the infusion speed is obtained, a control unit controls external infusion equipment to control output of the drug according to the infusion speed. By means of the drug supply control system, the dosage and the infusion speed can be calculated in an automated mode, work intensity of clinicians is greatly lowered, meanwhile accuracy of the calculation result of the dosage and the infusion speed is greatly improved, various defects caused by insufficient experience and work strain are avoided, and unnecessary medical accidents are avoided; meanwhile a powerful database function of an automated technology is utilized, a case database targeted to different patients can be established, and it is convenient to apply the drug according to different patents.

The invention discloses a drug information management method and system based on a block chain, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the role management and identity authentication of a drug supply chain participating enterprise, and determining the drug supply chain as a blockchain node; After the original medicine information and the enterprise identity information are preprocessed,determining medicine tracing information; Releasing the drug tracing information on a block chain, so that each block chain node has a data backup corresponding to the drug tracing information; Constructing a drug circulation transaction on the block chain based on a preset transaction model, and updating the drug tracing information recorded by the block chain; And in response to a drug information query request, carrying out transaction query on the block chain, and analyzing the queried transaction to obtain the actual circulation information of the drug. According to the invention, peer-to-peer participation and privacy information of all enterprises are ensured, and the drug information tracking efficiency and accuracy are improved.

A computer-based system, method and computer program product for determining compliance with contracted pharmacy reimbursement rates. The computer-based system, method and computer program product includes storing pharmacy reimbursement contract information comprised of information regarding a plurality of contracts between a payor and a pharmaceutical product provider. A plurality of claims are received via an electronic communications network. One or more of the plurality of received claims are compared to at least one of the plurality of contracts by identifying, via computer processor, one or more of the plurality of contracts having pharmaceutical reimbursement contract information that is common with one or more of the received claims. If only one contract is identified, the one contract is associated with the received claims. An indication of the association of the one identified contract with one or more of the received claims is stored in a computer memory.

An automatic drug supplementing and caching device comprises a metering detection control system, six caching units, a circuit control system, a gate mechanism, a conveying mechanism and a shell body. The six caching units are provided with movable pressing plates, different channel addresses can be set through the circuit control system, and the caching units further comprise perpendicular channels with the adjustable width and are provided with reset buttons. The gate mechanism further comprises a lifting gate baffle, when the lifting gate baffle ascends, drugs cached in the caching units are conveyed by the conveying mechanism, the drugs are sent out of an inclined drug sliding channel of the conveying mechanism, and the drug supplementing process is completed. The identical batch drugs can be placed in the volume at one time to limit the internal batch drugs, the stacked drugs can be stacked at the drug supply position in order by simply pulling a manual handle, manual intervention is not needed in the later drug supplementing work, and the waiting time of a machine can be reduced to improve drug supplementing efficiency. The trouble of manual counting and repeated scanning is eliminated, and the drugs can be effectively protected against missing distribution or fault distribution.

In order to carry out work preparing drugs that must be prepared in advance by hand efficiently and without error, a drug supply device is provided with: a drug supply means (3) having a plurality of drug containers (18), which enables drugs to be stored by dosing time units, and which enables the stored drugs to be dispensed as appropriate; a labeling means (20) provided with a plurality of labels (19) correspondingly provided to each drug container (18); and a labeling control means (5) that displays the labels (19) of the drug containers (18) that should contain the relevant drugs on the basis of prescription data. The labels (19) of the labeling means (20) can display a number included in the prescription data, which corresponds to the time each drug is to be taken.

The invention discloses an intelligent drug box system and an operating method thereof. The intelligent drug box system comprises a drug box and a cloud server. The drug box comprises a shell. A plurality of drug supply mechanisms are arranged in the shell side by side. Each drug supply mechanism comprises a cavity, wherein a groove is formed in the left end of the bottom surface of the cavity, a guide rail and a moving mechanism which can move along the guide rail are arranged at the top of the cavity, a lifter is arranged at the bottom of the moving mechanism, and a vacuum chuck is arranged at the lifting end of the lifter; a drug storage tube is placed in the groove and comprises a cylinder, and a drug storage hole which penetrates through the cylinder in the axial direction is formed in the cylinder; and an inductor is arranged at the upper end of the groove. A drug discharging mechanism is further arranged in the shell and comprises two parallel electric drawers which are arranged horizontally, wherein a drug container and a detection module used for detecting the presence of the drug container are arranged in each electric drawer. A controller, a touch screen, an inflation and deflation mechanism and a wireless communication module are further arranged on the shell. The vacuum chucks are connected with the inflation and deflation mechanism through an air guiding pipeline. According to the intelligent drug box system and the operating method thereof, the drug taking condition of a user can be monitored.

This drug-supplying device is provided with: a rotator that discharges drugs towards the outer diameter by being rotated; a drug shape-specifying unit for specifying the shape of the drug; and a control unit that rotates the rotator at a rotational speed specified, on the basis of a speed table that correlates drug shape to rotator rotational speed, by the shape that has been specified by a drug-detecting unit.

The invention relates to a pharmaceutical information tamper-proof traceability management system based on a mobile block chain, characterized by comprising a block chain module, a pharmaceutical barcode input module, a query module, a certificate center module, a mobile device terminal for connecting the block chain module through a mobile block chain API, a database module for reading and storing data and a front-end technical module for realizing data visualization. The pharmaceutical bar code input module encrypts the privacy data of the drug and the enterprise through the public key andstores the read bar code data into the block chain module through the first intelligent contract, and the query module reads the privacy and public data in the block chain module through the private key and the second intelligent contract. The invention realizes the tracking of the drug supply chain and the visualization of the data, and guarantees the transparency of the drug supply chain. The mobile block chain API not only enables the mobile device to participate in the network governance and transaction information verification as a node in the block chain network, but also can access thedata on the storage chain, thereby improving the convenience.

The invention relates to an inhaler with dose monitoring function, comprising a body equipped with a drug supplying suction nozzle and a by-pass pipe communicated with the drug supplying suction nozzle, a dose monitor and a transmission device. The invention is characterized in that when medicament is inhaled by users through the drug supplying suction nozzle, the inner pressure of the by-pass pipe induced by an inductor inside the dose monitor is transformed into a voltage signal, which is then transformed into dose value by a processor, and the dose value is finally transmitted to a distant receiving end through the transmission device.