A New Electronic Medication Compliance System

新型电子用药依从系统

• 批准号: 7108236
• 负责人: Erik Lange
• 金额: $ 9.81万
• 依托单位: KORONIS BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORAT
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-15 至 2007-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7108236
• 关键词: aging; automated medical record system; behavioral /social science research tag; biomedical equipment development; computer assisted patient care; magnetic recording system; monitoring device; patient monitoring device; portable biomedical equipment; self care; telemedicine; telemetry; therapy compliance

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this phase I SBIR is to show the feasibility of a medication compliance system enabled by ZigBee (a low-cost, very low-power, wireless network) and low-cost set-top boxes. As the United States population grows older, the importance of medication compliance increases. Researchers have identified the lack of medication compliance as a top reason for people being placed in nursing homes. Existing medication compliance systems require pills to be removed from their pharmacy prescription bottles. The proposed system does not. Small reusable pill sensor modules fit in the bottom of standard prescription bottles. The proposed system easily scales from 1 bottle to hundreds of bottles, which may be located anywhere in the house, and from a single user to many users in the same dwelling. Users interact with set top boxes via their televisions and infrared remote controllers, which is similar to standard television remotes. In the proposed project, KBT will demonstrate feasibility of the proposed system by prototyping the hardware and software and conducting bench tests. The feasibility goal is to prove the proposed wireless pill sensor modules can automatically and reliably communicate with the set top box. The success criterion is over 95% of the ZigBee link tests succeeding with the error recovery mechanisms disabled. With these performance results, the production system with a robust error recovery protocol will achieve near perfect performance.

描述（由申请人提供）：第一阶段 SBIR 的目标是展示由 ZigBee（一种低成本、极低功耗的无线网络）和低成本机顶盒支持的药物合规系统的可行性。随着美国人口老龄化，用药依从性的重要性日益增加。研究人员发现，缺乏用药依从性是人们被安置在疗养院的首要原因。现有的药物合规系统要求将药片从药房处方瓶中取出。拟议的系统没有。小型可重复使用药丸传感器模块安装在标准处方瓶的底部。所提出的系统可以轻松地从 1 个瓶子扩展到数百个瓶子，这些瓶子可以位于房屋的任何地方，并且可以从单个用户扩展到同一住宅中的多个用户。用户通过电视和红外遥控器与机顶盒交互，这与标准电视遥控器类似。在拟议的项目中，KBT 将通过硬件和软件原型设计以及台架测试来证明拟议系统的可行性。可行性目标是证明所提出的无线药丸传感器模块能够自动可靠地与机顶盒通信。成功标准是在禁用错误恢复机制的情况下，95% 以上的 ZigBee 链路测试成功。有了这些性能结果，具有强大错误恢复协议的生产系统将实现近乎完美的性能。