Senior Design Project Data Sheet

Project # Project Name Project Track Project Family P07009 Warfarin Automatic Bio-Engineering & P07009 – Bio- Home Medication Assistive Devices Track Engineering & Assistive Dispenser Device Track Start Term Team Guide Project Sponsor Doc. Revision 20062 Dr. Daniel Phillips Dr. Michel Berg 12/22/2006

 Customize the 3-Week Generic Project Description Project Schedule  1st Draft of the One Page Project Background: Project Summary  Completed Needs Assessment Four million people in the US are taking warfarin,  Updated Roles & an anticoagulation medication for blood clotting Responsibilities Excel Spreadsheet medical conditions. Dosages of warfarin need to  Extend the 3-Week Generic be frequently adjusted to maintain effectiveness. Project Schedule Adjustments are made based on weekly or bi- weekly blood tests for the first several months on  Updated One Page Project the regimen. Existing dispensing procedures Summary require frequent coordination with the physician,  Completed Specifications patient and pharmacist. Document  Stand-alone medication Past projects have been developed to create a dispenser with stated abilities generic automated medicine dispenser. The  Software application to run our focus of such projects entailed the dispensing of device an array of different medications. In contrast, our project will concentrate on one medication Expected Project Benefits: but with a combination of varying doses.  Create a marketable prototype to attract potential investors. Problem Statement:  Helps the physician and Frequent coordination between the physician, pharmacist to better accommodate the patient, and pharmacist is time consuming, patient’s prescription needs. inconvenient, and poses a risk to the patient’s health by increasing the chances of error or a missed dose. Core Team Members:  Abramo, Christopher Objectives/Scope:  Amin, Ntongho  Columbare, Nicholas 1. To create a prototype home medication  Lam, Albert dispensing device that will administer a one  Strandburg, Alan month course of warfarin.  Yeung, Gordon 2. The device must reliably dispense the medication in correct dosages with a success rate as close as possible to 100%. Strategy & Approach 3. Device must be able to communicate with the physician via a computer interface and relay patient’s usage information. Assumptions & Constraints: 4. Device must be equipped with operating 1. The finished product will be a prototype checks and alerts. model for demonstrations. 5. Device must be easily refilled by the 2. Device must be able to demonstrate its pharmacist and tamper evident. range of abilities within five minutes. 6. Easy to use and simple user interface. 3. Device will be used by "well-intentioned” patients. Deliverables: 4. Many of the device’s components will be “off the shelf.” st  1 Draft of the Roles & 5. Prototype needs to only operate in the Responsibilities Excel Spreadsheet standard upright position. 6. Device needs to be spill-proof. Senior Design Project Data Sheet

7. Pills cannot be mixed.

Issues & Risks:  Meeting our price target will be difficult to achieve given the technologies and scale required.  We need to assess many dispensing options to determine which has the highest success rate.  The many system checks may be difficult to implement given our budget and size restraints.  Creating a robust and compact pill sorting device may pose space issues.  100 % accuracy may be difficult to achieve.