Systems and methods for managing medication adherence
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Publication Number
US-9536053-B2
Publication Date
2017-01-03
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for managing medical adherence. An exemplary method may include managing medical adherence utilizing data aggregating and processing to determine impact on a user's health based on their behavior related to prescribed medication. The method may entail utilizing data related to a medication regimen and patient behavior to determine a patient's compliance to the regimen in terms of dosage and time. These values may be utilized to calculate a medical adherence value representing a patient's adherence to a prescribed regimen. Responsive to determining low medical adherence, a notification may be generated which may result in an intervention with the patient.
Core Innovation
The invention relates to a medication-adherence management system and a computer-implemented method for managing a patient’s medical adherence. The system receives data related to the patient, including information related to a prescribed medication regimen having one or more medications, patient behavior data, and a respective literacy level associated with each of the one or more medications. The method calculates compliance to dosage and compliance to time for each of the one or more medications based on the received data.
The method calculates a drug adherence count associated with each of the one or more medications by summing at least two of the compliance to dosage, the compliance to time, and the respective literacy level associated with each of the one or more medications. The method then determines a daily medication adherence for each of the one or more medications. A daily regimen adherence value is calculated by summing the daily medication adherence of all of the one or more medications in the medication regimen.
The method further calculates a daily regimen baseline value by re-calculating the daily regimen adherence value by utilizing a maximum potential value for the drug adherence count for each of the respective medications in the regimen associated with the patient. A medical adherence value is determined based on the daily regimen adherence value and the daily regimen baseline value, and the medical adherence is compared with a threshold value.
Claims Coverage
The independent claims are clm-00001, clm-00010, and clm-00019. Across these independent claims, there are four inventive features: receiving patient and medication-regimen data with medication-associated literacy, calculating compliance to dosage and compliance to time, computing a per-medication drug adherence count by summing compliance measures with literacy, and determining and comparing a medical adherence value using a daily regimen baseline.
Medication regimen literacy-based compliance aggregation
Receiving, using a processor, data related to the patient, the data including information related to a prescribed medication regimen having one or more medications, patient behavior data, and a respective literacy level associated with each of the one or more medications; calculating a compliance to dosage and a compliance to time for each of the one or more medications based on the received data.
Drug adherence count from dosage, time, and literacy
Calculating a drug adherence count associated with each of the one or more medications by summing at least two of the compliance to dosage, the compliance to time, and the respective literacy level associated with each of the one or more medications.
Daily regimen adherence and maximum-potential baseline
Determining a daily medication adherence for each of the one or more medications; calculating a daily regimen adherence value by summing the daily medication adherence of all of the one or more medications in the medication regimen; calculating a daily regimen baseline value by re-calculating the daily regimen adherence value by utilizing a maximum potential value for the drug adherence count for each of the respective medications in the regimen associated with the patient.
Threshold-based medical adherence value comparison
Determining a medical adherence value based on the daily regimen adherence value and the daily regimen baseline value; and comparing the medical adherence with a threshold value.
The independent claims cover a computer-implemented method, a system, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that compute medical adherence by combining per-medication compliance to dosage and time with per-medication literacy into a drug adherence count, aggregating to daily regimen adherence, normalizing using a maximum-potential daily regimen baseline, and comparing a resulting medical adherence value to a threshold.
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