Medicine ingestion state management method, medicine and medicine ingestion state management device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016135918-A1
Application number	US-201615006274-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 26, 2016
Priority date	Sep 2, 2003
Publication date	May 19, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Disclosed is a medicine ingestion state management method capable of objectively managing medicine ingestion states of patients. The medicine ingestion state management method involves an operation of prescribing medicine ( 10 ) encapsulating, together with a medicament, a medicine information transmitting unit ( 20 ) having a function of transmitting medicine information capable of specifying a type and a quantity of the medicament to each individual patient, and an operation of grasping the medicine ingestion state of each patient by collecting the medicine information from each medicine information transmitting unit ( 20 ) in each patient.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A capsule encapsulating a medicament, comprising;
an IC chip which transmits information to outside of the body of a patient who ingests the capsule, wherein the IC chip is covered with a first material which is not dissolved within the patient's body, the IC chip with the first material are encapsulated with the medicament in the capsule, and wherein the capsule is made from a material dissolvable within the patient's stomach.

2 . The capsule according to claim 1 , wherein the IC chip transmits information indicating a type of the medicament.

3 . The capsule according to claim 1 , wherein the IC chip includes a first module that counts a length of time elapsed from when the capsule dissolved within the patient's body, and a second module that transmits information calculated from the length of time which is counted by the first module.

4 . The capsule according to claim 3 , wherein the first module starts counting the length of time elapsed when power is supplied to the IC chip as a result of dissolution of the capsule within the patient's stomach.

5 . The capsule according to claim 3 , further comprising an electrode connected to the IC chip, wherein the electrode functions as a battery by immersion into body fluid.

6 . The capsule according to claim 3 , wherein the second module transmits medicine information containing information representing a medicine effective period of the medicament.

7 . The capsule according to claim 1 , wherein the IC chip includes:
a first IC chip; and a second IC chip, wherein the first IC chip is covered with the first material, and the second IC chip is partly covered with a second material which responds to body fluid within the patient's body.

8 . The capsule according to claim 7 , wherein the first IC chip transmits first identifying information, the second IC chip transmits second identifying information, and the first identifying information and second identifying information include the same information about the medicament.

9 . A capsule which can be swallowed and encapsulates a medicament, the capsule being made from a material dissolvable within a stomach, the capsule comprising:
an IC chip covered with a material which does not dissolve in a human body and is encapsulated with the medicament in the capsule, wherein the IC chip includes;
a memory;
a module that writes information into the memory, wherein the module starts writing after power is supplied to the IC chip as a result of dissolution of the capsule in the stomach; and
a transmitting module that transmits information stored in the memory when power is supplied to the transmitting module wirelessly from outside of the capsule, the information including a type of the medicament.

10 . The capsule according to claim 9 , wherein the information includes an identifier of a unit on which the IC chip is equipped.

11 . The capsule according to claim 9 , wherein the memory stores information which changes from before swallowed to after swallowed.

Assignees

• Fujitsu Ltd

Inventors

• Kimura Hitoshi
• Notani Morihito

Classifications

• A61B5/4839

  combined with drug delivery · CPC title

• A61B5/073

  Intestinal transmitters · CPC title

• A61B5/411

  Detecting or monitoring allergy or intolerance reactions to an allergenic agent or substance · CPC title

• G06Q10/10

  Office automation; Time management · CPC title

• G16H10/60

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title