Patent attributes
A mobile data appliance for reminding patients to take medicaments and the like, including a power supply unit, a computing unit for processing medication data, a storage unit for storing the medication data, a display unit for representing medication data, a signal-transmitting unit for emitting a reminder signal for taking medicaments, and an interface unit for external data exchange. The storage unit includes a medication plan memory in which medication data produced by an authorized body is stored. A medication plan program is provided, by means of which time-dependent and/or location-dependent medication data is read out of the medication plan memory store, and viewed on the display unit and/or the reminder signal is emitted by means of the signal emitter unit.