Intelligent Pill Dispenser With Remote Scheduling And Monitoring

摘要

A system for and method of locally and remotely controlling and monitoring medication dispensing process comprises a medication dispensing device which has a plurality of medication storage containers each of which configured to store one medication therein; a dispensing cup; and a plurality of physical control mechanism to warrant the dose is correctly dispensed and sending alerts to the remote app; and a remote app or web page that allows an end user or a remote caregiver to create and change a dose per medication as well as a schedule for each medication dose, provides alerts and notifications, stores history of doses delivered and doses removed from the dispensing cup, and submits automatic refill requests when storage containers approach refill levels;

主权项

1. A medication dispensing system, comprising:
a remote app or a web page that allows an end user or a remote caregiver to create and change a dose per medication as well as a schedule for each medication dose, provides alerts and notifications, stores history of doses delivered and doses removed, and submits automatic refill requests when medication approach refill levels; and a medication dispensing device comprising: a plurality of medication storage containers each of which configured to store one medication therein; a dispensing cup; at least one motor assembly delivering the medication from the storage container; at least one physical control mechanism to warrant a dose per medication is accurate; a user interface allowing the end user to create and change a dose per medication as well as a schedule for each medication dose; a circuit board connected to the motor assembly and physical control mechanism; wherein the circuit board stores software program which is the logic of the device to control motors, accept input from the physical control mechanism, input from user interface, and input from the remote app or web page.