Patent ID: 8019471

Claim:
An apparatus for storing and delivering individual doses of therapeutic products, comprising: a controller; a housing for storing at least one medication carrier, each of the at least one medication carrier comprising a plurality of sealed unit dose packages that each comprise an individual dose of a therapeutic product, each of the at least one medication carrier also comprising an identifier on a surface thereof enabling ones of the plurality of sealed unit dose packages to be remotely and non-consecutively accessed within each of the at least one medication carrier prior to removal from the housing; a detectable signal generator, in communication with the controller, operative to provide a detectable signal to prompt a user to request a therapeutic dose; and a delivery assembly, in communication with the controller, for removing a sealed unit dose package from a known location in the housing out of the housing for retrieval by the user, wherein the controller instructs the detectable signal generator to provide the detectable signal and wherein the controller, in response to input from the user responding to the detectable signal, provides a delivery signal causing the delivery assembly to remove the sealed unit dose package.