A pill consumption log tells doctors if the patient missed a pill

Apr 23, 2007 09:29 GMT  ·  By

Patients who lose the doctors' hand written prescription or the ones that forget when to take the compulsory pill will probably find this a real boon. The Med-eMonitor reminds, educates, monitors and reports on up to 25 medications.

This portable device can be programmed remotely via the Internet. Patient medication, compliance, health status, quality of life and psychological data are accessible via a secure and customer-specific Internet site that allows health care providers secure access through a role-based security system.

Here's how it works. The five most critical medications are physically held in the device's storage compartments, allowing for a time and date stamp when medications are accessed. Twenty additional medications that are not stored in the device can be managed via a "Virtual Compartment" feature. When it's time for a patient to wolf down the daily medication, the Med-eMonitor beeps and displays all the relevant information of the current medication on its screen.

A pill consumption log will let doctors know if the patient missed a pill or if he took the wrong dose. The patient may be prompted to asses how is he feeling in any moment of a day in order to let doctors keep an eye on the patient. Data may be input via full-scale visual analogue scales that enable easy entry of numeric values such as glucose levels, systolic and diastolic blood pressure values and much more.

The Med-eMonitor device will be available after undergoing the necessary testing.

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