Personalized healthcare management system

Abstract

Personalized healthcare management system. The personalized integrated healthcare anti-counterfeit management system provides pack authentication, user ( 5 ) feedback and compliance, documentation of the dosage uptake by the users ( 5 ), maintenance of user ( 5 ) related data and displaying compliance and feedback information, and liasing with healthcare agencies, user's nominated persons and/or medical practitioners ( 6 ). It further provides real-time and authentic data in raw and analysed form to diverse agencies in the healthcare chain. Moreover, a method for delivering pharmacovigilance related information in clinical trials is disclosed. Authentication of diverse healthcare agencies in the healthcare value chain such as medical practitioners ( 6 ), users ( 5 ), pharmacists ( 7 ), pharmaceutical companies ( 9 ), and clinical researchers is taken care of.

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         58 . An integrated healthcare management system relating to a patient which is interactive between a first healthcare agency and at least one other party, the said other party being selected from the patient and at least one other healthcare agency, the system comprising:
 i) a remote system for storing a defined healthcare regime for the patient and optionally other data relating directly or indirectly to the healthcare regime;   ii) a patient medication system for use by the patient providing medication to be taken by the patient and comprising:
 a. a package comprising a product for dispensing, information relating to the identity of the package; and 
 b. an associated device with which the package is engagable so as to be readable by the associated device; 
   iii) the patient medication system being communicably linked to the remote system through the associated device;   iv) a communication port for at least one healthcare agency to communicate interactively with the remote system;   wherein;   v) the remote system and the patient medication system are linked and interactively communicable whereby information relating to the healthcare regime is transmissible to the patient medication system and accessible by the patient and information relating to the patient medication system is transmissible to the remote system and comparable with the defined healthcare regime stored in the system; and   vi) the communication port is adapted for the at least one healthcare agency to input information and/or to receive information relating to the healthcare regime of the patient by transmission of information between the communication port and to the remote system;   the arrangement being such that the first healthcare agency and at least one other party, the said other party being selected from the patient and at least one other healthcare agency transmit and/or receive via the remote system information relating directly or indirectly to the healthcare regime of the patient   wherein at least one healthcare agency is selected from the patient's medical practitioner, a hospital or other health institution attended by the patient, a pharmacy supplying the patient medication system, clinical researcher, a pharmaceutical company or distributor providing the patient medication system, a healthcare regulator and an insurance company providing insurance to the patient wherein information from at least one of the healthcare agencies is transmissible to the remote system and information is retrievable by the healthcare agency from the remote system   
     
     
         59 . A system according to  claim 58  wherein the patient medication system comprises a package and associated device comprising a smart package for carrying a product and which package is adapted to communicate with an associated device, the package comprising a plurality of containments adapted to receive a product, each containment being closed or optionally with closure means, the said plurality of containment(s) and/or closure(s) being non-electrically interconnected; signal generating means adapted to convey to an associated device information relating to one or more of the containments; a chip, said being optional when signal generating means itself is a chip and optionally transmitter and/or receiver means;
 the said associated device comprising a housing adapted to communicate with the smart package; signal sensing for detecting a signal from the signal generating means said signal sensing optionally comprising acquiring means configured with data input, storing, output, decoding and processing and communicating means adapted to communicate with an external data record; 
 wherein said signal generating means is disposed in the said package such that, on communication with the device, the signal generating means provides information relating to one or more of the containments to the signal sensing means in the said associated device and optionally the information is communicated externally of the said system for the purpose of comparison of the information with the external data record. 
 
     
     
         60 . A system according to  claim 58  wherein the associated device comprises a housing with package holding provision adapted to receive the package containing a product; a signal generator adapted to determine information relating to the presence or absence of the product in the package and signal sensing means provided in the said device to detect signals generated by the said signal generator providing information relating to the product; a patient interface whereby the patient may input information or receive information relating to the healthcare regime from the remote system the arrangement being such that the device is registrable to the patient; the package is registrable to the device; and the identity and/or status of the package and device are comparable to the healthcare regime for the patient so as to enable authentication of the identity and/or status of the package to determine compliance or otherwise of the patient with the healthcare regime. 
     
     
         61 . A system according to  claim 58  wherein the patient medication system comprises:
 a dispensing system with an optional product outlet provision; 
 an operating system comprising data logging and storing means comprising optionally a data processing means, communication/interaction means; 
 a power source built-in or optionally induced; 
 non-accessible compartment for the said operating system; 
 a separate non-accessible product containment; 
 a means for authentication such as an encoded chip or a pattern or a random pattern or a marker or combinations thereof; 
 optional display/interactive means; 
 a sensing means that activates/deactivates upon dispensing of the product from the package; 
 means to establish connection of the power source with the said operating system; 
 wherein the said operating system is configured with the sensing means and optionally with authentication means and is housed in the said compartment wherein the said compartment is operably connected with the said containment; 
 wherein the said package is authenticated by the remote system; 
 optionally prompting product consumption; 
 the said sensing means senses the product dispense, the said operating system records and transmits/communicates real time product dispense data via said interaction/communication means to the remote device, rendering the package un-authentic in case of compromise/tampering.