Patent ID: 9317663
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: A61J,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A method of reminding a patient to take a dose of a medication in a timely fashion comprising the steps of: providing an electronic pill box having a housing with a plurality of dosettes disposed therein, where each dosette has one or more chambers defined therein and each chamber has a door that is movable between an open and closed position; an illumination device positioned to illuminate an underside of the door of each chamber; and a switch operatively engaged with each illumination device; providing a reminder schedule to a microprocessor in the pill box housing; loading appropriate chambers corresponding to the reminder schedule of medication with an appropriate dose of a medication; tracking real time relative to the reminder schedule; providing a first reminder to the patient to take a particular dose of medication from a particular chamber when the real time corresponds to a time on the reminder schedule and wherein the first reminder includes illuminating the door of the particular chamber with a first color light emitted by the associated illumination device; issuing a second reminder to the patient if the door to the particular chamber is not opened within a present period of time; providing an electronic device accessible to the patient; linking the electronic device to the pill box so that bidirectional communication between the electronic device and pill box is possible; and wherein the steps of issuing either of the first and second reminders to the patient further includes providing an alert to the patient via the electronic device; and recording a compliance event by responding on the electronic device to the alert provided to the patient.