859 results about "Medication taking" patented technology

A system and method for improving compliance by a patient with a medical regimen that has been prescribed to the patient wherein utilizing computer and electronic communication systems, patient data is compared to pharmaceutical data to verify prescribed drug dosage and prescribed medication duration are within acceptable limits, any abnormalities found by the comparisons are reported to the treating physician who may then alter the medical regimen before authorizing dispensing of the prescribed drugs and providing drug taking information to the patient, and upon authorization being issued, the patient is scheduled to receive reminder notifications prior to the prescribed time for the prescribed drugs to be administered, as well as automatically notifying the prescription distribution service to deliver the prescribed drugs to the patient, and notifying the payor service to pay for the prescribed drugs.

The drug compliance monitoring system provides a patient with a portable medication dispenser programmed with medication-taking data. The dispenser alerts the patient to take a dose of medication and gathers compliance data relating to the medication-taking data. The compliance data is accessible to a physician, or other caregiver, etc., via a network database.

A medication-taking confirmation support device includes a pill case having a pill housing section, an electronic clock equipped with a memory, a notification unit and a controller, a pill case open / close sensor, and a reconfirmation signal input device. The controller makes the notification unit notify a medication-taking confirmation time on the basis of a detection signal from the pill case open / close sensor and also makes the memory store the medication-taking confirmation time at the time of taking medication. The controller further makes the notification unit re-notify the medication-taking confirmation time read out from the memory on the basis of a signal from the reconfirmation signal input device after having taken medication.

The drug compliance monitoring system provides a patient with a portable medication dispenser programmed with medication-taking data. The dispenser alerts the patient to take a dose of medication and gathers compliance data relating to the medication-taking data. The compliance data is accessible to a physician, or other caregiver, etc., via a network database.

The invention relates to an intelligent medicine box system. The intelligent medicine box system comprises a plurality of intelligent medicine boxes, a plurality of user terminals, a plurality of background management terminals, a cloud server and intelligent medicine box management software, wherein the intelligent medicine boxes are connected with the user terminals; the intelligent medicine boxes are connected with the cloud server; the cloud server is connected with the background management terminals and a database respectively; a plurality of functional modules are arranged in the intelligent medicine boxes; each functional module realizes the function thereof by virtue of the intelligent medicine box management software. The intelligent medicine box system provided by the invention is capable of realizing the functions of reminding a patient to take medicine on time, automatically recording a medicine-taking event and the like, is also capable of providing knowledge in the aspects of diseases, medicine curative effects, medicine safety and the like for the patient, thus fundamentally the compliance of the patient, and is further capable of helping the patient to actively record medicine-taking compliance data, and acquiring the medicine-taking experience data of the patient. The intelligent medicine boxes are capable of storing medicines according to the dosage of one week, and capable of adjusting the storage mode according to daily medicine-taking times, thus facilitating management.

A prescription compliance device which aids patients in complying with instructions given by a physician for taking prescription medication. The device reminds a patient when the next dose of medication is to be taken and indicates whether a specified dose has been taken. The device includes a microcontroller, a display, a program memory for storing pre-programmed medication-taking regimens for single and multiple medications, a real time clock, a selector for selecting one of the regimens and for programming the device as to the time and day on which a first dose of medication is to be taken, a display which alternately displays the current time and a time at which a next dose of medication is to be taken and an alarm which alerts the patient at times when a dose of medication is to de taken. The selector includes an event switch which is activated by the patient after taking a dose of medication so as to record the taking of medication and to cause the microcontroller to effect the display of the next time at which a dose of medication is to be taken. A memory may also be included to record the times at which a patient takes doses of medication. The device also includes a remote programming feature via a wireless link.

Methods and apparatus are provided for increasing and / or monitoring a party's compliance with a schedule for taking medicines. In a first embodiment, a method is provided for use by a first container that is adapted to store a first medicine. The method includes storing information regarding the first medicine and wirelessly communicating a signal between the first container and a second container adapted to store a second medicine. In a second embodiment, a method is provided that includes determining if a first container for storing a first medicine is positioned so as to wirelessly communicate with a second container for storing a second medicine. The method further includes generating data based at least in part on whether the first container is positioned so as to wirelessly communicate with the second container. In a third embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a signal and, based at least in part on the received signal, determining whether a first container for storing a first medicine was positioned so as to wirelessly communicate with a second container for storing a second medicine. In a fourth embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a signal from a device that monitors whether a first container for storing a first medicine and a second container for storing a second medicine are positioned so as to communicate. The method further includes determining if at least one party has complied with a schedule for taking the first medicine and the second medicine based at least in part on the received signal. Systems, apparatus and computer program products are provided for carrying out the above-described embodiments and numerous other embodiments.

The oral cavity quick dissolving and quick disintegrating freeze dried tablet for children includes at least one medicinal active component and at least one medicinal stuffing, adhesive and other supplementary material. It is loose and porous tablet in network structure and prepared through common freeze drying process. The said medicinal active component may be different children's medicines, such as antibiotic, antipyretic, analgesic, cough stopping and phlegm eliminating medicine, cold medicine, etc. Bitter or excitant medicine may be coated and water insoluble medicine is prepared intofine powder of 50 micron below size for stable dispersion in liquid. The present invention has fast disintegration, no jamming in throat, simple preparation process and low cost.

The invention belongs to the technical field of wireless communication, and particularly relates to an intelligent medical service system based on RFID (radio frequency identification devices) and CDM (code division multiplex) technologies, which comprises a sensor data acquisition layer, a medical resource management layer and an intelligent medical service provision layer. Different modules of the sensor data acquisition layer are integrated inside an intelligent medicine kit to serve as a household intelligent terminal which is combined with the RFID sensor technology and the CDM material technology and supports various sensor networks, the wireless network and 3G (generation) / 4G networks. Besides, one end of the intelligent terminal is connected with the intelligent medical service provision layer which serves as the upper layer, and the other end of the intelligent terminal carries out private self-services including dosing reminding and recording, intelligent drug package control, sign parameter acquisition recording, emergency alarming and remote acquisition of doctor suggestions. The intelligent medical service system is capable of changing the 'hospital-centered and doctor-centered' nursing mode into the 'household-centered and patient-centered' nursing mode, and accordingly self-nursing efficiency and reliability of patients are improved remarkably and medical resources are saved greatly.

The invention discloses an intelligent electronic medical kit, which comprises an electronic control module and a medicine box body, wherein the electronic control module comprises a control unit and a medicine box switching detection control unit; wherein the medicine box switching detection control unit is used for detecting a switching signal of the medicine box body; the control unit stores the medicine information and the time for taking medicine, and forms a record indicating whether the medicine is taken in time according to the switching signal provided by the medicine box switching detection control unit. The intelligent electronic medical kit has the functions of medicine recording and medicine taking reminding. In addition, the invention also has the functions of local and wireless setting and alarm reminding because an output unit and a communication unit module are further arranged.

A medication reminder and compliance system including a pill box, a pill box and electronic device; or a pill box, electronic device and remote server. The pill box includes several detachable dosettes, each divided into several chambers having a door. A two-color LED is disposed beneath each chamber and is activated when a specific reminder time is reached. The LED initially illuminates the associated chamber with a green light but changes to a flashing red light if the door is not opened within a preset time. A switch engaged with the door deactivates the LED when the door is opened. The electronic device communicates with the pill box and alerts the patient when it is time to take medication. A remote server which communicates with both the pill box and electronic device can be programmed to control the reminder schedule and monitor the patient's compliance with a prescribed medication regimen.

The present invention provides an intelligent medicine taking reminding and controlling device and a method. The device comprises a housing, a CPU controller, a communication module, a loudspeaker, an information display input unit, a camera, a medicine supply unit, and a power supply. The device is set in a remote manner through a special background server website and according to prescribing Information, so as to remind when a patient takes medicine. When the medicine taking time is up, the device reminds the patient to take medicine in a sound making or displaying manner, conforms the patient identity, drops the medicine off for the patient. If the set time period is over, the patient does not take the medicine, the device informs a preset keeper through a preset manner such as a telephone call, a short message or uploaded information to the background network.

The invention discloses slow-release microspheres coated with rivastigmine tartrate / rivastigmine for PLGA / PLA injection and a preparation method thereof. The slow-release microspheres mainly comprise rivastigmine tartrate / rivastigmine and PLGA and PLA serving as biodegradable polymer medicinal materials, and can be prepared by adopting a W1 / O / W2 composite emulsified solvent volatilization method, an O / W emulsified solvent volatilization method, an O1 / O2 emulsion drying method and a spray drying method. The grain diameter of the microspheres is less than 100 microns. The slow-release microspheres have high medicament loading amount, have no obvious burst release effect, can be continuously released for one week, one mouth or three mouths, are used for treating senile diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson disease and the like, and can prolong the acting time of the medicament, reduce the application times and greatly improve the administration compliance of patients.

A medicine bottle for reminding a patient to take a dosage of medicine at a prescribed time includes a disposable bottle and a corresponding disposable cap. The system further includes a mechanism for recording and playing back instructions to take the medicine dosage at the prescribed time and an amplifier electrically coupled directly to the audio recording and playback device, and a transducer electrically coupled to the amplifier. A mechanism is further included for selectively unlocking the lock actuator from a locked position when a present time is within a predetermined number of hours of the prescribed time.

The invention discloses a metformin hydrochloride enteric-coated sustained release tablet which is prepared by enteric coating the metformin hydrochloride sustained release tablet. Compared with the prior art, the sustained release tablet integrates with the enteric coating technology to prepare a new form of the metformin hydrochloride enteric-coated sustained release tablet. By using the enteric coating technology, the metformin hydrochloride does not disintegrate in the stomach or stimulate the gastric mucosa, and the adverse reaction of nausea, stomachache and diarrhea caused by medicine taking can be avoided; meanwhile, the metformin hydrochloride is prevented from being damaged by gastric juice, and the bioavailability is improved. The product is a sustained release preparation, the medicine can stably release in vivo, the effective blood concentration can be maintained for a long time, the toxic and side effects caused by over-high blood concentration in a short time are avoided, the medicine taking frequency is decreased, and the patient compliance is improved as well.

The invention provides an intelligent medicine taking reminding medicine box, a medicine taking reminding device and a medicine taking reminding method. The intelligent medicine taking reminding medicine box comprises a shell, a medicine disc for containing medicines, a microprocessor, a WiFi module and an alarm device; the microprocessor obtains and stores data of the medicine taking time frequencyand the medicine taking time through the WiFi module; once the medicine taking time comes, the microprocessor can give out an alarm through the alarm device to remind a patient to take medicines. According to the medicine taking reminding device and the medicine taking reminding method, the intelligent medicine taking reminding medicine box, a router and a remote server are included; and the intelligent medicine taking reminding medicine box is in networking connection with the remote server through the router. The intelligent medicine taking reminding medicine box is in wireless connection with the network through the WiFi module, a medicine list can be updated in a fully automatic manner, and manual input is not needed, so that the intelligent medicine taking reminding medicine box is intelligent, simple and convenient; meanwhile, the problems that the patient sets error time due to unskilled operation, so that wrong medicines are taken, or the patient does not set time according to prescriptions of a doctor on purpose, so that the patient does not take the medicines on time, and the medical treatment effect is poor are solved.

The invention relates to a method for improving medication compliance of a patient and an intelligent medicine box system. The method comprises the following steps: arranging the intelligent medicine box system which comprises an intelligent medicine box device, a cloud platform and a mobile phone APP, wherein the intelligent medicine box device comprises a central processing module, a real-time clock module, a camera module, a wireless communication module, an MP3 play module, a sensor module, a memory module and a loudspeaker; establishing a knowledge base, and arranging contents of the knowledge base at different time points of the course of treatment to form a stepped health education knowledge base; recording knowledge contents of the knowledge base into a voice file, then translating the file into different language versions, and performing classified hierarchical storage; copying the voice file together with a catalogue to a memory card of the intelligent medicine box device; calculating the medication time when the patient takes medicine every time, retrieving the voice file with the same name of times or days in the corresponding catalogue in the knowledge base on the memory card, and finally achieving the synchronous health education in the process of medication of the patient in a way of playing or prompting the patient to listen.

The invention relates to a tadalafil orally disintegrating tablet and a preparation method thereof. Aiming to improve the deficiency of existing tadalafil oral dosage forms, the invention provides the tadalafil orally disintegrating tablet which is convenient to take, is quick in absorption, takes effect quickly and has high bioavailability for doctors and patients to help the patients achieve requirements for natural and satisfactory sexual lives. The tadalafil orally disintegrating tablet takes tadalafil or medicinal salts thereof as an active ingredient, contains pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary materials such as filling agents, disintegrating agents, flavouring agents and lubricating agents, and when being taken, dispenses with water, can be quickly disintegrated or dissolved in oral cavities only in a few seconds and is ingested along with saliva.

The invention relates to a stable vitamin C sustained release preparation and a preparation method thereof. The vitamin C sustained release preparation comprises vitamin C, an antioxidant synergist and a metal ion chelating agent. The stable vitamin C sustained release preparation has the advantages of high stability, insensitivity to change of external factors, long-acting sustained release and capabilities of uniformly, stably and gradually releasing vitamin C, the medication frequency can be reduced and bioavailability and patient compliance of the medicament can be improved. In addition, the preparation method disclosed by the invention has rational process design, is convenient to operate and is suitable for large-scale industrial production.

The invention provides a slow / controlled-release preparation of ticagrelor. The slow / controlled-release preparation of ticagrelor is an oral drug. The slow / controlled-release preparation contains ticagrelor or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. A mass percent of ticagrelor to controlled-release accessory materials is in a range of 1: 0.2 to 1: 20 and preferably, the mass percent is in a range of 1: 0.1 to 1: 10, and a proper amount of other accessory materials are used. The slow / controlled-release base comprises one or more of cellulose, cellulose derivatives, alginate, starch, starch derivatives, polypropylene resins, carboxyvinyl polymers and other controlled-release accessory materials. Compared with a fast-release preparation, the slow / controlled-release preparation of ticagrelor provides a ticagrelor slow / controlled-release preparation system, can be eaten by a patient once each day, can change drug compliance of patients, can reduce the risk of myocardial infarction or stroke caused by acute thrombosis caused by missing of ticagrelor, and provides the easily-prepared slow / controlled-release preparation of ticagrelor or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt.

The invention belongs to the field of pharmaceutic preparations, and particularly provides a pramipexole dihydrochloride slow-release tablet with high content uniformity and a preparation method thereof. The invention provides the pramipexole dihydrochloride slow-release tablet which is independent of pH (potential of hydrogen) during drug release, is slowly released in buffer solutions with pHs of 1.2, 4.5 and 6.8 for 24 hours, reaches final release amounts above 85 percent without exception and only needs to be taken once every day. The preparation method provided by the invention is simple and practicable, relative standard deviations (RSDs) of the content uniformity and the release rate of the low-dose medicine, namely the pramipexole dihydrochloride can be guaranteed to be far below the RSD in a limit requirement, the between difference is small and the repeatability is high.

The invention discloses an Internet-based method for monitoring and personalized self-adaption nursing of a blood sugar patient. The method is characterized in that a personalized and self-adaption nursing analysis model for the blood sugar patient based on the real-time continuous monitoring of the patient's physiological data such as a blood sugar level and a blood pressure level as well as assistant data such as catering, medicine use, sports and weight is established according to technologies of cloud computing, Internet of Things, medical monitoring, intelligent terminals and the like as well as mathematical statistics principles. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the blood sugar patient can master whether the blood sugar level is normal and master overall changing trends of the blood sugar level at any time and any place; the patient can know factors such as the catering, the sports or the medicine use which cause the abnormal blood sugar level at any time; and the patient can be reminded to adjust relevant life modes in time so as to control a blood sugar index to return to a normal scope. The method disclosed by the invention solves the problems that physical health gets worse because an existing patient does not know blood sugar index changes, or the changes are known by the patient and can only be found after the patient monitors scattered data or even after a medical worker makes a visit to monitor the scattered data, and overall changing trends cannot be mastered in real time.

The invention relates to the technical field of devices and methods for supervising the medicine taking of patients, and discloses a device for supervising the medication compliance of a patient and tracking medication effects and a using method of the device. The device for supervising the medication compliance of the patient and tracking the medication effects comprises a medicine box, an intelligent terminal device, a patient mobile phone and a cloud service platform, wherein the intelligent terminal device is fixedly arranged in the medicine box, and comprises a shell; a sensor capable of sensing the opening of the medicine box, a wireless communication module, a timed reminding module, a sensing module and a power module are arranged in the shell. According to the device for supervising the medication compliance of the patient and tracking the medication effects and the using method of the device, the patient can effectively execute a medication plan, and can be effectively supervised to take medicine, the medication effects of the patient can be effectively tracked, the medication compliance of the patient is improved, and an important basis is provided for the subsequent treatment of the patient.

The invention provides an intelligent auxiliary medication-taking reminding system, which comprises an image acquisition module, a voice recording and playback module, a scanning module, a display module, an information confirmation module, an alarm clock setting module, a data storage module and a data export module. The invention further provides an intelligent auxiliary medication-taking reminding method. According to the intelligent auxiliary medication-taking reminding system and the intelligent auxiliary medication-taking reminding method, a picture sticker is arranged on a medicine to serve as a medicine identity mark of the medicine, and medicine-taking dose, method and time matched with the medicine identity mark are extracted uniquely by adopting an image matching technology, thereby assisting a user in taking the medicine accurately, and being safe and reliable; historical data statistical information can be extracted and sent to an associated guardian, so that the guardiancan monitor and know the medicine-taking situation timely, thereby realizing the remote monitoring of medicine-taking situation of a patient and achieving the purposes of looking after the patient remotely.

The invention relates to a medicine box having an automatic distribution function and a monitoring prompt function and a control method thereof. The medicine box includes a medicine box body; the medicine box body is divided into a plurality of medicine storage spaces; a medicine receiving cup is arranged in one medicine storage space; a manipulator for taking and placing tablets is arranged on atop end of the medicine case body; a control module is arranged in the medicine box; the control module controls the manipulator to suck and transfer the tablets through a suction fan, and the suctionfan can suck a designated tablet in each working cycle; tablet leakage, wrong-taking, or over-taking can be avoided under the action of various detection elements, and the accuracy of automatic distribution is greatly improved; a low-cost weight sensor can determine if a patient takes medicines on time or not, and the cost of prompting the patient to take medicines is greatly reduced; an SIM cardis arranged on the medicine box, which can allow a designated contact person to monitor the medicine taking condition of the patient so as to urge the patient to take medicines and avoid accident.

The invention provides a drug information management method, a device and a system, wherein the method is executed by a server; the server is connected with a supply chain client, a hospital client and a patient client; the method includes steps of receiving an identification code and stock information of a drug uploaded by the supply chain client, wherein the stock information comprises stock pharmacy and stock time of the drug; receiving the drug prescription record uploaded by the hospital client, wherein the prescription record comprises disease type, doctor for providing the prescription, and the drug receiving record; receiving the drug taking record and the drug effect feedback information uploaded by the patient client; according to the drug identification code, binding and storing the stock information, prescription record, drug taking record and drug effect feedback information of the drug, and generating a full life cycle management report of the drug. The drug information management method, the device and the system can record the full-process data of the drug from production, sales to the drug feedback of a patient; a user can comprehensively master related information of the drug, thus the full-process traceability of the drug information is realized.

A computerized pill intake reminder device is disclosed. The computerized pill intake reminder device is used for storing pills, detecting the number of pills in each pouch of the blister pack, inventory management, reminding users to take their medication on time, alerting by providing an audible or a visual alarm if the medications are not taken on time and as a secondary mechanism alerting their caregiver if the user has not responded to the alert and taken the medication on time.The device includes a top housing and a bottom housing that can be rotated about each other to form a closed and sealed module. It also includes a processor that is communicatively coupled through an electronic circuit to a plurality of electronic components housed within the pill intake reminder device. These include a speaker, microphone, infrared sensors, cameras, LED lights, microphone, RFID scanner, non-volatile memory, transmitter, and a receiver. The LED lights can be programmed with various colors.The speaker is used to sound an audible alarm play an audible message at a specific time to remind the user to take their medication or provide an alert if the time has passed. The device also includes a pill storage module that has an upper and a lower packing plate. The space in between the plates is where the blister pack is inserted.The device includes a pill detection module. This module includes an infrared sensor (IR) and a camera. In operation, the processor causes the infrared sensor to detect the presence of a pill inside the pouch of the pill / blister pack and the processor causes the camera to quantify the number of pills in the pouch. The pill detection is performed by using a combination of IR Sensors, photodiodes, and a light emitting mechanism. A light beam, or an array of light beams, are passed from one side of the pouch to another and the light that passes through is read by the IR sensors and used for determining whether the pouch includes pills.The device includes a guidance system to guide the user of the pill intake reminder device to a specific pouch of the pill / blister pack for retrieving pills stored in that pouch. It does so by illuminating a light emitting diode (LED) on or around a specific pouch from which medication / pills are to be retrieved by the user. It operates by obtaining the hours of administration (HOA) schedule for the patient and then locating a pouch of the pill / blister pack that correlates with the HOA schedule. Once located, the pouch is illuminated for guidance.The device includes a display that can be used for providing visual alerts, videos, or recorded messages for instructing the user for taking the pills.The device uses a transmitter to send alerts to mobile phone for reminding the user to take the medication as well as sending an alert for missing or noncompliance.The radio frequency identification (RFID) reader is used to verify that a correct pill / blister pack, the one that is associated with the user / patient is being inserted into the device. The verifying process includes scanning an RFID tag located on the blister pack and matching it to patient information.The device also performs periodic inventory of the pills in the blister pack. This includes using an infrared sensor housed within the electronic module to determine the presence of one or more pills in the pouch and using a camera housed underneath the pouch to image and count the number of pills that are in the pouch. The inventory serves as an error check to ensure that the right number of pills from the right pouch were taken by the user at their HOA. The pill inventory system also is used to re-order more medication, if allowed by the prescription, when it detects that it is time to replenish them.

The invention discloses to a drug compound for treating diabetes and particularly relates to a drug compound oral pharmaceutical formulation adopting pioglitazone as the ingredient. The drug compound aims to supplement the deficiency of the prior oral pharmaceutical formulation used for treating Type-2 Diabetes and provide a drug compound oral pharmaceutical formulation, sustained-release pioglitazone dropping pill which has high bioavailability, controllable release time, long-acting effect, low frequency of drug taking, steady plasma concentration, low cost and absence of contamination during the production. The sustained-release pioglitazone dropping pill adopts pioglitazone as the chemical ingredient and is prepared jointly with the medicinal carriers of hydrophilic frame ingredients and hydrophobic frame ingredients used as the stroma.