SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURE FOR ELECTRONIC INTERFACES AND COMPLEX DATA STRUCTURES FOR MEDICATION RECONCILIATION AND PATIENT REGIMEN ADHERENCE DETECTION

摘要

Optical interference filters associated with specific, unique signatures are applied to medical consumables in order to label them. The interactions of those optical interface filters with electromagnetic waves can be observed in order to determine those unique signatures. These unique signatures can be used to look up entries in a database that contain information associated with the tagged medical consumable, allowing for the medical consumable to be easily identified and verified. Various systems and methods are provided herein that utilize these optical interference filters for performing medication reconciliation and tracking patient compliance to prescribed drug schedules, which can greatly reduce the errors and costs associated with medication reconciliation and monitoring patient compliance.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program, the program causing a computer to:
receive patient-identifying information associated with a patient; receive a drug identification associated with a pharmaceutical dosage form associated with an optical interference filter, wherein the drug identification is obtained by:
scanning the optical interference filter associated with the pharmaceutical dosage form via an emitter configured to emit an electromagnetic wave;receiving an energy spectrum associated with the optical interference filter via a receiver configured to receive the energy spectrum, wherein the energy spectrum is based on the electromagnetic wave interacting with the optical interference filter;determining one or more spectral energy features from the energy spectrum;determining a unique scanned tag code based on the characteristics of the one or more spectral energy features from the energy spectrum, wherein the unique scanned tag code is associated with the optical interference filter associated with the pharmaceutical dosage form;comparing the unique scanned tag code to a database containing the drug identification in order to determine a match; andupon determining the match, determining the drug identification associated with the unique scanned tag code and the optical interference filter; access a patient-record database containing an electronic prescription associated with the patient; determine the electronic prescription associated with the patient based on the received patient-identifying information associated with the patient; compare the received drug identification to the electronic prescription associated with the patient to determine patient compliance; and generate or update a patient compliance report based on the determined patient compliance.