Medication Regimen Tracking With Time-Specific Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals, particularly the elderly and caregivers, face challenges in adhering to medical regimens due to cognitive decline, lack of training, and communication gaps, leading to medication errors and potential health risks.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system that records, tracks, and reports pharmaceutical treatment regimens, providing reminders and alerts via user devices, and automatically notifies users of non-adherence, allowing for real-time monitoring and management of medication administration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional pill dispensers are used with weekly compartments, then individuals can monitor daily medication administration, but they cannot enforce specific time-of-day administration requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical pill dispenser with a computer-based system that uses software applications on mobile devices to track and monitor medication administration. This substitution enables precise time-tracking and notification capabilities that mechanical dispensers cannot provide, allowing the system to enforce specific time-of-day administration requirements while maintaining ease of use through automated reminders and digital tracking.
2Productivity
If primary care providers delegate medication administration to secondary caregivers, then continuity of care is maintained, but medication dosage errors increase due to lack of knowledge and experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system tracks and monitors all medication administration events, providing real-time feedback to both primary and secondary caregivers. The system notifies secondary caregivers of prescribed medications and administration requirements, and alerts primary providers when medications are not administered as expected. This continuous feedback loop ensures that secondary caregivers have accurate information about dosage requirements while maintaining care continuity.
Solution Approach 2:
The computer-based tracking system serves as an intermediary between primary care providers and secondary caregivers. It mediates the information flow by providing structured, accurate medication information to secondary caregivers through the system interface, reducing the risk of dosage errors while maintaining the delegated care arrangement and ensuring continuity of care.
3Ease of operation
If individuals with cognitive decline manage their own medication regimens, then independence is maintained, but adherence to treatment plans deteriorates due to memory impairment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables self-service through automated system features that remind individuals with cognitive decline to take their medications at the correct times. The system provides persistent visual and auditory reminders, tracks administration status, and reduces the cognitive burden on individuals by handling the tracking and monitoring functions automatically, thereby maintaining independence while improving adherence reliability.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented system for recording, tracking and reporting administration of one or more pharmaceutical treatment regimens, the system including one or more databases wherein details of one or more pharmaceutical treatment regimens are recorded, the databases accessible by processors associated with a first user device having access to the databases by a data communications network, the processors executing instructions that notify a first user, using the first user device, of details of a pharmaceutical treatment regimen associated with the first or second user, record details a pharmaceutical administration in accordance with treatment regimen entered by the first user using the first user device, and non-adherence to the treatment regimen by the first user, automatically notify another user, using a second user device wherein the another user has database access by the data communications network, of the non-adherence to treatment regimen by the first user.