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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2017
Pillscan, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Mark Burrows, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Neal Benjamin, Wynnewood, PA (US);
Rafi Licht, Philadelphia, PA (US);
David Mantelmacher, Penn Valley, PA (US);
PILLSCAN, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
A medication dispensing system, data-enabled medication box holder, and methods for reminding, monitoring, tracking, and/or communicating dose events are disclosed. The data-enabled medication box holder holds a medication box for dispensing medication packets, each of which is tagged with machine-readable medium, wherein the machine-readable medium indicates the contents of the medication packet. The data-enabled medication box holder includes electronics for processing and communicating information about valid dose events and/or dose exception events. Further, a medication adherence system for and method of monitoring a patient's medication adherence and facilitating dose reminder notifications is disclosed. The medication adherence system includes a centralized server for collecting and processing the patient-specific information from the data-enabled medication box holders.