Medicine Intake Support Device for Missed Dose Guidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies lack effective solutions to support patients who forget to take their prescribed medicines, particularly for antihypertensive agents, insulin preparations, and anticancer agents, which require strict adherence to intake times for therapeutic efficacy.
Innovation Solution
A medicine intake support device that includes a memory circuitry, input and output interfaces, and processing circuitry to detect deviations in medicine intake status, suggest response methods, and recommend next intake times based on patient-specific data and medication properties.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional medicine intake monitoring technologies are used, then medicine intake time can be tracked, but there is no effective solution to support patients who forget to take medicine
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors medicine intake status and provides feedback to both the patient and healthcare professional. When a dose is missed, the system automatically detects the deviation and generates appropriate response method suggestions based on the feedback from intake status monitoring, enabling adaptive support for missed doses.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically detecting missed doses and generating appropriate response suggestions without requiring manual intervention from healthcare professionals. The device autonomously monitors intake status, compares it with scheduled times, and provides actionable guidance for recovered missed doses.
2Reliability
If strict adherence to medicine intake time is enforced, then therapeutic efficacy is maintained, but patients who forget doses cannot receive appropriate support
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter of response based on the severity and timing of the missed dose. By analyzing the current time, scheduled intake time, and medicine properties, the system dynamically adjusts its response suggestions - ranging from immediate dose administration to skipping the dose - thereby maintaining therapeutic efficacy while providing ease of operation for different scenarios.
Solution Approach 2:
The system acts as an intermediary between the patient and healthcare professional for missed doses. It automatically detects the deviation, calculates appropriate response methods based on pre-stored medicine properties, and presents suggestions that mediate between maintaining strict adherence and providing practical support for missed doses.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system provides detailed response method suggestions, then patient support is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-storing medicine properties (such as half-life, dosing frequency, and therapeutic window) in a database before actual use. During operation, the system simply retrieves these pre-processed properties and combines them with current time and intake status information to generate responses, significantly reducing the complexity of real-time processing while maintaining detailed customization.
Data Source
AI summary
The medicine intake support device includes a processing circuitry and a memory. The processing circuitry acquires a previous medicine intake time and a next scheduled medicine intake time, wherein the previous medicine intake time is a time when a patient previously took a prescription medicine, and the next scheduled medicine intake time is a predetermined time when the patient will take a next dose of the prescription medicine. The memory stores a type of the prescription medicine and a measure in response to the patient's failure to take the type of the prescription medicine in correspondence with each other. If the patient failed to take the prescription medicine, the processing circuitry suggests a response method in response to the patient's failure to take the prescription medicine based on the measure stored in the memory, the previous medicine intake time, the next scheduled medicine intake time, and a current time.