Single Pill Delivery with Compliance Monitoring/Remindin

A hand-held, microelectronics-based unit dispensing individual medication doses in pill, tablet orand recording such dispensing for subsequent data retrieval, represents a significant technologicalattempts to monitor patient compliance with therapeutic regimens. Medication individually sealed andsystem composed of an electronic unit to control and record dispensing, and a replaceable cartridgemedication and microelectronic circuitry containing both specific patient demographics and coachingcapacity to record dispensing data. Significant features of the pill monitor, differentiating it froability to dispense and record individual pill tablet or capsule doses; (2) its ability to maintainenvironment; (3) its compact, efficient use of space in a hand-held unit; (4) its ease of use by theremotely transfer stored dispensing data and reprogram instructions through a personal computer; (6)usage with display and voice technologies. The microelectronic pill monitor provides significant benpharmaceutical industry engaged in clinical trials for proof of safety and efficacy, and the primarymanaged treatment of the chronically ill or elderly.