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Automated Medication Dispensing Device

Automated Medication Dispensing Device. RERC on Accessible Medical Instrumentation Competition 2005-2006. Team 6: Eva Marie Suarez Kevin Villani Jacquelyn Masse.

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Automated Medication Dispensing Device

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  1. Automated Medication Dispensing Device RERC on Accessible Medical Instrumentation Competition 2005-2006 Team 6: Eva Marie Suarez Kevin Villani Jacquelyn Masse

  2. Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of the Census Bureau's U.S. Interim Population Projections, accessed online at www.census.gov/ipc/www/usinterimproj/ on May 23, 2005. Our Aging Population

  3. Medication and theElderly • People over age 65 buy 30 percent of all prescription drugs and 40 percent of all OTC drugs. • The average older person is taking more than four prescription medications at once plus two OTC medications. • Studies have shown that 40% to 70% of older people don't take their medications at the right time or in the right amount FDA Consumer magazineSeptember-October 1997 IssuePub No. FDA 03-1315C

  4. Errors in Medicating • Arthritis • Poor eyesight • Dementia • Immobility • Difficulty in segmentation The Solution: Our Automated Medication Dispensing Device

  5. Reduce Error • Automatically Cuts Pills • No Hard-To-Read Labels • Keeps Pills Organized • Alarm Reminder • Automatically Dispenses Dosage

  6. Lower Costs Accurate Cutting = Concentrated Pills

  7. Products Currently Available

  8. Patents • Medication Dispenser for Dispensing Flat Dosage Forms (6,527,138) • Tamper Resistant Programmable Medicine Dispenser (6,163,736) • Timed Medicine Dispenser (4,207,992) • Medicine Dispenser (5,947,329) • Medicine Dispensing Device (5,454,793) • Gravity Feeding Pill Medicine Dispenser (4,638,923)

  9. General Themes • Pills must be pre-separated (time consuming loading process) • Accuracy is not verified frequently • No cutting device • Difficult to extract dispensed medication from apparatus

  10. Operation Basic overview

  11. Basic Elements • Device components • Case • Cutter assembly • Vacuum retrieval assembly • Rejection assembly • Dispensing assembly • User input

  12. Case Basic shape cover

  13. cover cutter assembly

  14. Cutter Assembly side Top

  15. cover vacuum retrieval assembly

  16. Scale dispense Rejection storage Rejection assembly

  17. Dispensing assembly • Simple trap door action • Operated with user input • Coded user input

  18. User input • User interface • Add pills • Compartment # • # of pills • Expiration date • Set dosage • # pills per dose • Times to take

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