There is provided an apparatus for monitoring compliance, facilitating automatic dispensing and childproofing strip packaged medication. In one embodiment a dispenser advances a packet, controls advancement of the packet and detects the presence and absence of the packet, including electronic circuitry for recording events. A replicate for strip package medication can have packets with an open conductive trace, each packet being rupturable at a location to interrupt conductivity of the conductive trace. When the conductive trace of one of the packets completes an external circuit, the circuit is interrupted when the packet is ruptured. In another aspect, each packet has a tuned antenna that is tuned to an external transceiver which detects the detuning of each antenna. In a method of making a replicate for strip package medication, conductive ink is printed on a surface of each packet of the replicate and longitudinal edges of the replicate are reinforced.

An automated transfer and mixing device receives an injection device, a lyophilized drug vial and a diluent vial and transfers diluent from the diluent vial to the lyophilized drug vial and shakes or vibrates the lyophilized drug vial to reconstitute the drug. The device then transfers the reconstituted drug from the lyophilized drug vial to the injection device.

Medication packaging includes a body defining a cavity for disposal of medication. A closure member is disposed with the body. The closure member includes an advancement mechanism and a window that displays indicia of a medication dosage regimen. The closure member is rotatable between a medication accessible configuration and a closed configuration that includes a sealing position and an advance position to incrementally advance the indicia. Systems and methods of use are disclosed.

An adjustable neck system for ease of action adjustment within a wide range of possible string heights and vibrating string lengths while not impeding on the vibrating area of the soundboard and adding minimal mass to the headblock assembly and allowing for significant rigidity to allow for greatly improved tuning stability is described. The system includes a neck joint utilizing a neck that pivots into a slightly mortised headblock with a floating, cantilevered fingerboard that does not contact the surface of the soundboard. The neck heel features extensive reinforcement in conjunction with headblock reinforcement to allow for increased torque on between the captive bolts and pivot points for greater rigidity and stability without the need for locking screws. By laminating the headblock and cantilevering the fingerboard, mass and soundboard contact area is not significantly greater than with traditional assemblies for minimal effect on weight balance and tone.

A handheld electronic device, such as a smartphone, and an app capture an image of a medication or delivery device at the time of delivery with a date and time indictor or stamp. The image is analyzed and the dosage calculated from the captured image. The device stores the data corresponding to the dosage and time and compares the data with stored information relating to the patient to record compliance with the prescribed medication and delivery protocol. The data is used to record total usage of the medication over a predetermined period of time and determine a time schedule for resupplying the medication and a delivery method when the total medication usage exceeds a predetermined amount.

Packages that include at least one medicament therein include at least one light member affixed thereto that is capable of emitting light upon activation. The light member is activated upon the opening of the package such that, upon opening, the light member fluoresces or otherwise emits light to provide information to an end user. In some embodiments, the light generated by the light member allows the end user to locate the package in dark conditions. In other embodiments, the light generated by the light member may be configured to emit only for a time period equal to a viability time period of the medicament within the package or to change color at a time period equal to the viability time period of the medicament within the package to alert an end user that the medicament is no longer useable.

This disclosure provides a visual analytical method of verifying dispensed pills. In a preferred embodiment, a camera captures one or more parameters of each pill as it travels along a dispense path. The camera stores the parameters, and a processor displays the parameters or evaluates whether the parameters are within a threshold limit for the dispensed pill. If the parameter is outside the threshold, the pill or the receptacle is separated and/or removed. If all the parameters are within the threshold, the pill is stored in a receptacle, and the images are processed and archived for future verification. The process is repeated for each pill in the dispenser. The system captures at least one verification image for every pill dispensed into the receptacle.

Systems, devices and methods to establish fluid communication between vessels. Containers and devices having a unitary multiple entry port structure and a port unitary cover with buttons or levers for the assembly of customized final dosages of injectable beneficial substances. Containers and devices having a protective port with a cover configured to hermetically seal second container(s) within the protective port. A vessel having at least two entry ports and at least one exit port, and at least one container containing a dosing regimen, the at least one container configured to be received by one of the at least two entry ports of the vessel, whereby upon connection of the at least one container to the one of the at least two entry ports of the vessel, the dosing regimen in the at least one container is transferred into the vessel. Modular dosing system for adding at least one amount of a medicament to a preparation in a modular construction. System for displaying a dosing regimen or single amount of a medicament, so that the administrator of the amount is able to precisely ascertain the amount administered to a patient.

An inkjet recording device includes an image forming section and a controller. The image forming section includes a recording head, and forms an image on a package of medication. The controller includes a first determining section and an applying section. The first determining section determines a scent indicating a person taking medication. The applying section applies the scent determined by the first determining section to the package of the medication.

Systems and methods for making and delivering personalized, medically prescribed pharmaceuticals to an individual patient are described. Individual unit doses (IUDs) of medicine may be prepared specific to the individual in need of same, by using a system, which includes a networked control system in combination with manufacturing assemblies specific to the IUDs and delivering the medicine to the patient directly from the manufacturer.