Patent ID: 8234127
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of providing an integrated healthcare management system relating to a patient which is interactive between a first healthcare agency and at least one other party, said other party being selected from the patient and at least one other healthcare agency, the method comprising: i. registering a defined healthcare regime for the patient in a remote system; ii. providing to the patient a patient medication system comprising: iii. the patient medication system being communicably linked to the remote system through the associated device; iv. recording information relating to the identity of the package in the associated device or remote system whereby upon engagement of the package and the associated device, the recorded information is comparable with the information of the package to determine whether or not the information of the engaged package corresponds with the recorded information; v. recording information relating to the identity of the package in the patient medication system or remote system and whereby upon dispensing of the product said recorded information is comparable with the information of the package to determine whether or not the information of said package corresponds with said recorded information; vi. providing a unique identifier for the associated device and recording the identifier with the healthcare regime of the patient in the remote system to register the associated device; vii. registering the patient with the associated device in the remote system; viii. engaging the package of the patient medication system into the associated device; ix. comparing the recorded information which relates to the identity of the package and which is stored in the associated device or remote system with the information of the package engaged with the associated device to determine whether or not the information of the engaged package corresponds with said recorded information; x. provided the information of the package corresponds to the stored information relating to the identity of the package, registering the package with the associated device in the remote system; xi. providing to the at least one healthcare agency a communication port communicably linked to the remote system; xii. periodically providing information relating to the identity of the patient and/or the status of the package from the patient medication system to the remote system; xiii. comparing the information periodically transmitted to the remote system with the healthcare regime recorded for the patient in the remote system to ascertain whether the information corresponds with the recorded healthcare regime; xiv. providing information from the remote system to the at least one healthcare agency indicating that a periodic transmission of information has been received by the remote system;