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A medication clock for producing a record of a patient in complying with a medication schedule. A data base is provided which stores the time and date of each medication that the patient takes including those medications taken in response to an alarm by the clock as well as medications taken by the

A medication clock for producing a record of a patient in complying with a medication schedule. A data base is provided which stores the time and date of each medication that the patient takes including those medications taken in response to an alarm by the clock as well as medications taken by the choice of the patient. The dosage schedule may be programmed by reading of information written by the pharmacist.

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A medication clock comprising: (a) a plurality of compartments with each compartment being separately usable for holding one or more medications to be taken by a patient, the medications being chosen from prescription medications which have individual dosages to be taken at specific times, prescript

A medication clock comprising: (a) a plurality of compartments with each compartment being separately usable for holding one or more medications to be taken by a patient, the medications being chosen from prescription medications which have individual dosages to be taken at specific times, prescription medications to be taken under the control of the patient on an as needed basis and nonprescription medications to be taken under the control of the patient; (b) a programmable timing means which produces a medication dispensing signal indicating the time that a patient is to take one or more medications to be taken at specific times; (c) means responsive to the medication dispensing signal produced by the programmable timing means to produce an alarm for alerting the patient that it is time to take a particular medication, said means for alerting including a tone generator and a separate visual display indicator located in proximity to each of said compartments, said tone generator producing an audible tone in response to the medication dispensing signal and said visual display indicator in proximity to the compartment associated with the medication to be taken producing a visual indication in response to the medication dispensing signal; (d) means located in proximity to each of said compartments which are separately activable by a patient for producing a patient acknowledgment signal that any one of the medications stored in one of the compartments has been taken including medications taken by the patient in response to an alarm and medications taken without an alarm; (e) a memory coupled to the programmable timing means and to the means for producing each patient acknowledgment signal and having a plurality of separate storage locations with each storage location being associated with one of the means for producing a patient acknowledgment signal and its associated compartment, each separate storage location being used for storing the time and date of each patient acknowledgment signal produced by the associated means for producing a patient acknowledgment signal as an identification of the medication taken from the associated compartment and the time and date of taking the medication from the associated compartment; and (f) means coupled to the memory for providing an output of the identification of the medication, and time and date of each dosage of medication taken by the patient which is stored in the separate locations of the memory for each of the medications being taken by the patient including those medications taken under the control of the programmable timing means in response to an alarm as well as medications taken by the patient without an alarm.