Patient compliance and monitoring system for multiple regimens using a movable bar code reader
US5774865A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 19, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jun 30, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 19, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61J2205/10
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The patient compliance and monitoring device utilizes a tray with a base for holding medicine containers such as bottles. Inside the base attached to the tray is a weight scale connected to a computer. Also connected to the computer are an alphanumeric keyboard and an LCD monitor which attached to the base. The computer entails a microprocessor connected to ROM and RAM and encoded with instruction sets to determine the dosage taken by a user as well as the date and time taken. The medicine containers are detected, preferably, by a bar code reader inside the base scanning bar code labels attached to the bottom of the medicine containers.
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