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NexDose
An invention to aid in personal medication adherence.

THE BEGINNING

A new start up company named VivoNex, LLC, was founded in 1996 by Dr. Ronald Sekura with the objective of creating and mobilizing technological solutions to enable enhanced patient behavioral compliance with their prescribed medications. The failure of patients to use prescribed medications properly was then and today remains to be a major health problem in the United States. Patient medication non-compliance results in significant patient morbidity and mortality and generates a huge financial burden that is borne by the U.S. healthcare system.

Prior to founding VivoNex, Dr. Sekura held the positions of Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute of Child Health; the Head of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs - Division of Aids Research at the National Institutes of Health; and as a Regulator at The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drugs and Biologics. Dr. Sekura also founded Selcore Laboratories, Inc. which later became the publicly traded North American Vaccine Corporation prior to its acquisition by Baxter International.

THE INVENTION

Since its founding, VivoNex, LLC was used as Dr. Sekura’s workspace where he managed to develop and patent a unique device that, in 1994, was introduced as the NexDose® Digital Assistant. Carrying several U.S. patents to this day, the NexDose Digital Assistant very strictly reminds its user of each pending and immediate need to take a prescribed dosage of medication precisely on time. Once taken, the dosage is time stamped and recorded as a positive compliance event. Conversely, negative compliance events are denoted within the Digital Assistant as misses and skips. A quick review of the log record within the device would provide the user of the Digital Assistant with a concise view of the non-compliant nature (or compliant nature, as the case may be) of their own medication consumption habits.

Dr. Sekura has succeeded in completing his vision of a source for medication compliance behavior that, when modeled by patients perfectly, will produce medication therapy results to the standard that is spelled out on the medication manufacturer’s package insert. “The NexDose Digital Assistant,” says Dr. Sekura, “will not allow a patient who uses it properly to forget to take a single dose of their medication, period.”

The APPLICATION

The NexDose Medication Therapy Management System (MTMS) is a secure online application that enablse each of the core elements of care related to patient medication therapy management as set forth by the American Pharmacist’s Association in a March 2008 publication entitled “Medication Therapy Management in Pharmacy Practice: Core Elements of an MTM Service Model Version 2.0.”

1. Medication Therapy Review: The medication therapy review (MTR) is a systematic process of collecting patient-specific information, assessing medication therapies to identify medication-related problems, developing a prioritized list of medication-related problems, and creating a plan to resolve them. (Referenced American Pharmacist’s Association publication excerpt.)

2. Personal Medication Record: The personal medication record (PMR) is a comprehensive record of the patient’s medications (prescription and non-prescription medications, herbal products, and other dietary supplements. (Referenced American Pharmacist’s Association publication excerpt.)

3. Medication – Related Action Plan: The medication – related action plan (MAP) is a patient-centric document containing a list of actions for the patient to use in tracking progress for self-management. (Referenced American Pharmacist’s Association publication excerpt.)

4. Intervention and / or Referral: The pharmacist (could read “caregiver / healthcare professional”) provides consultative services and intervenes to address medication-related problems; when necessary, the pharmacist refers the patient to a physician or other healthcare professional. (Referenced American Pharmacist’s Association publication excerpt.)

NexDose MTM System COMPONENT DEFINITIONS

Dr. Sekura's original invention, the NexDose Digital Assistant, is a 3.2 oz. self-contained micro-computer that holds data for up to 20 medication therapies and delivers dose-by-dose audio and visual alerts. It also logs patient adherence / compliance details for each scheduled dosing. Originally developed as a manually programmable device, the NexDose® Digital Assistant is today both manually programmable and remotely programmable through the use of an internet-equipped computer in combination with the NexDose® Infrared Reader.

The NexDose IR Reader was an original development designed to coordinate electronic data transfers between the NexDose MTM System and an individual NexDose Digital Assistant with the use of a PC - based software platform. The original design has been modified to work with the use of an internet – equipped computer and the recently-developed NexDose Sync software, which replaced the original PC - based software.

NEXDOSE PATENTS

NexDose products and services are protected by U.S. Patents 6,018.289; 6,198,383; 7,330,101. Additional foreign and U.S. patents are pending.

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