An activity monitor is associated with a container, such as a medication bottle, and includes one or more detectors configured to detect activity associated with the bottle, such as movement, opening and/or closing, and changes in volume and/or mass. The activity monitor may include alerting devices and be programmed with scheduling information. The activity monitor may also, or instead, be part of a system and communicate with one or more remote devices such as a user device or monitoring system, such as to receive programming information from those devices or to output activity information to those devices.

The present invention deals with an intelligent device, connected to the internet, providing for the safe storage and delivery of medicines in an automatic and controlled manner. In addition, it allows for health checks to be made on the patient using data obtained through peripheral devices, which are not the subject of this invention. Thus it is an electromechanical device together with the necessary software both in the device and in external applications, to improve compliance with pharmacological treatments for patients, also generating reliable information and enabling continuous monitoring of the patient by the responsible person.

Dry thawing systems and devices for thawing biological substances are provided herein. Methods for thawing biological substances are also provided.

Devices, systems and methods are provided to detect when items are removed from a multiple cavity carrier (MCC) that stores items (e.g., pen needle assemblies) in respective cavities. A separate, reusable data collection unit (DCU) can be mounted to the MCC and has sensors for detecting cavity status (e.g., empty or filled with an item). The DCU stores data related to time stamps, optional dates, and cavity locations of item removal from and optional used item return to respective ones of the MCC cavities to help users track item usage (e.g., pen needle assemblies) to improve medication delivery management such as insulin injections with an injection pen and pen needle assemblies. Indicators can be generated to indicate from which cavity the next item should be extracted to encourage injection site rotation.

A smart pill organizer device for use in a networked computer system to wirelessly monitor a patient's adherence to medication doses, sends alerts when missed, and order refills as needed. The device is a container comprising: a tray of removable dose units tagged with a unique identifier assigned to a patient. The tag may comprise a scannable barcode, and the scanner may be part of the device, or kit. The device further comprises computer components and wireless transmitters, and one or more electromagnetic sensors, e.g. positioned beneath the dose units, to detect when a dose is taken, and transmit the information to a remote server comprising a patient database record. When a dose is missed, an alert is sent to one or more third party electronic computing devices (e.g. patient's, doctor's, pharmacy, caregiver's, etc.). The dose units are filled automatedly with a patient's prescription by a pharmaceutical robotic system.

A smart medicine box is proposed. The smart medicine box includes a medicine accommodation portion having a plurality of accommodation spaces that are opened at a front thereof and accommodate medicine that is to be taken, and a closing portion that covers a front of the medicine accommodation portion to protect the medicine and is opened to take the medicine out from the box. The smart medicine box is configured by assembling a plurality of unit cases, so that a large mold for manufacturing the smart medicine box is not required, manufacturing cost is low, and consequently the smart medicine box can be supplied at low cost. Furthermore, different colors are provided for individual unit cases, and the unit case of different colors are combined in various ways, thus allowing a user to more easily distinguish the day of the week or the date.

Provided is a smart medicine case unit including: a main case having an accommodation space to store a component therein; a medicine case accommodated in the accommodation space of the main case, the medicine case including a plurality of medicine compartments that are partitioned to separately accommodate various types of medicine and respectively include light-transmitting holes through which light is transmitted; a circuit board arranged between the medicine case and the main case, wherein an optical sensor provided at a position corresponding to each of the light-transmitting holes and a communication device configured to transmit a signal sensed by the optical sensor to a mobile terminal such as a smartphone are mounted on the circuit board; and a top cover rotatably coupled to the main case to selectively open and close the medicine compartments of the medicine case by a rotational motion.

There is provided herein a guidance system for positioning an insertion device comprising: an electromagnetic field generator configured to generate an electromagnetic field covering a treatment area, an insertion device comprising an electromagnetic sensor, the electromagnetic sensor configured to receive signals indicative of the electromagnetic field, and a processing circuitry configured to: load an X-ray, CT, ultrasound or MRI image of the subject's chest, mark a location of a first and a second anatomic landmarks on the subject's torso using a registration sensor and obtaining a subject coordinate system based thereon, identify the location of the first and the second anatomic landmarks on the loaded X-ray, CT, ultrasound or MRI image of the subject's chest; aligning the subject coordinate system with the loaded X-ray, CT, ultrasound or MRI image, and display, on the image, a path of the insertion device insertion with respect to the first and the second anatomic locations; wherein the path is generated according to changes in the strength of the electromagnetic field sensed by the tip sensor's during the insertion of the insertion device.

An automatic packager including a cartridge and a cartridge mechanism is provided. The cartridge for the automatic packager includes a reservoir for storing a plurality of medications and a wheel including a bottom portion placed in the reservoir. The cartridge also includes a scooping member provided on the wheel to rotate with the wheel and singulate a medication from the reservoir. The cartridge mechanism for the automatic packager includes a platform configured to receive a medication from a cartridge and a camera system. The cartridge mechanism also includes an electronic processor coupled to the camera system configured to dispense the medication from the cartridge in response to determining that the expected medication is delivered to the platform and return the medication to the cartridge in response to determining that the expected medication is not delivered to the platform.

A multiple dose spoon device for scooping, retaining, and delivering to a patient a specific number of mini-tablets from a container, e.g., bottle, or bulk pile, of mini-tablets. The device comprises a top housing, a bottom housing, and one or two sliders movably positioned between top housing and bottom housing, said: a) top housing having a plurality of nests, and also having a handle with an open window and slider retention notches, and b) one or two sliders with slider tabs, having a plurality of sequential whole number markings equivalent to the plurality of nests, and a plurality minus 1 of tablet blocking ribs, wherein slider movement is regulated by the slider retention notches, and wherein the plurality of nests and the plurality of whole number markings are a same number. Alternatively, the top housing does not have slider retention notches, and the one or two sliders have slider retention notches.