MOBILE APPLICATION FOR DETERMINING AND RECORDING MEDICATION
An application for the identification of medication and the recording of a dosage of such medication is disclosed. An image of an unidentified medicine, such as self-administered medication or a medicament device, is captured from an image sensor on a mobile computing device. The type of medicine is determined based on the captured image. An input interface is displayed to accept a dosage input of the determined medicine. The dosage input of the determined medicine is recorded.
1 . A method of determining medication events, the method comprising:
capturing an image of a medicine from an image sensor on a mobile computing device;
determining the type of medicine based on the captured image;
displaying an input interface on a display to accept a dosage input of the determined medicine; and
recording a dosage input of the determined medicine.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the medicine is one of an oral administered medication or a medication administered by a medicament device.
3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the medicament device is an inhaler.
4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
assigning a time stamp to the recorded dosage input; and
transmitting the recorded dosage input, the time stamp and the associated identified medication via a transceiver to a server.
5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining of the type of medicine is performed by a simple machine learning engine trained with a training set of medicine related images.
6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the simple machine learning engine includes a last layer of a complex machine learning model.
7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
storing the determined medicine in a memory device; and
generating an interface showing the determined medicine in subsequent recording of dosage inputs of the determined medicine.
8 . A computer program product of claim 1 , comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to carry out the method of.
9 . The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the computer program product is a non-transitory computer readable medium.
10 . A mobile device allowing collection of medication use data, the mobile device comprising:
an image sensor;
a memory device;
a display; and
a processor coupled to the image sensor, the display, and the memory device, the processor operable to:
capture an image of a medicine from the image sensor;
determine the type of medicine based on the captured image;
display an input interface on the display to accept a dosage input of the determined medicine; and
record a dosage input of the determined medicine in the memory device.
11 . The mobile device of claim 10 , wherein the medicine is one of an oral administered medication or a medication administered by a medicament device.
12 . The mobile device of claim 11 , wherein the medicament device is an inhaler.
13 . The mobile device of claim 10 , further comprising a transceiver, wherein the processor is further operable to:
assign a time stamp to the recorded dosage input; and
transmit the recorded dosage input, the time stamp and the associated identified medication via the transceiver to a server.
14 . The mobile device of claim 10 , wherein the processor is operable to execute a simple machine learning engine trained with a training set of medicine related images to determine the medicine.
15 . The mobile device of claim 12 , wherein the simple machine learning engine includes a last layer of a complex machine learning model.
16 . The mobile device of claim 10 , wherein the processor is further operable to store the determined medicine in the memory device; and generate an interface showing the determined medicine in subsequent recording of dosage inputs of the determined medicine.
17 . A data collection system, the system comprising:
a mobile computing device having an image sensor operable to capture an image of a medicine, a storage device, a transceiver, a display and a processor operable to:
classify the medicine;
display an input for dosage of the classified medicine on the display;
record an input of the dosage of the classified medicine;
send the collected dosage and classified medicine data via the transceiver; and
an analysis server receiving the collected data and recording the dosage and the classified medicine data in relation to a patient.