Patent ID: 8149096

Claim:
A method for monitoring the compliance between the timing of medication events for a certain medication and for providing feedback indicative of the degree of compliance between those monitored medication events and a specified dosing regimen, where both the specified dosing regimen and the degree of compliance are determined using pharmacodynamic information including at least dosing effect information for the certain medication and information on the effects of various deviations from the specified dosing regimen, wherein the degree of compliance is provided at least to a patient receiving such medication comprising the steps of: a.) providing to a dosing regimen memory and storing therein pharmacodynamic information for the certain medication comprising a desired dosing regimen, dosing effect information, and information on the effects of various deviations from the specified dosing regimen, b.) monitoring the time that a dose of said medication is taken by the patient to provide a dose time signal, c.) providing the dose time signals to a time signal memory for storage, d.) determining at least the time elapsed since the most recently-generated dose time signal or the time elapsed between the most recently generated dose time signal and at least one previous dose time signal, e.) comparing such determined elapsed times with the pharmacodynamic information concerning the dosing regimen, dosing effect information for the certain medication, and information on the effects of various deviations from the specified dosing regimen, f) generating a feedback output indicative of the degree of compliance between the determined times and the pharmacodynamic information concerning the desired dosing regimen, dosing effect information, and deviation effect information for the certain medication, and g.) displaying to the patient a graphic indication of the feedback output of the degree of compliance.