Abstract: An electronic pocket pillbox having multiple detachable compartments each fitted with a unit-medication dispenser for different medication sizes and pharmaceutical forms is formed by a physician writing a prescription with a computer having a display and responsive to a keyboard and mouse. The computer codes and loads a prescription file into a memory of a detachable data medium, similar to a smart card. The card is put into the pillbox to supply signals to electronic circuitry in the pillbox. Each pillbox compartment is filled by a pharmacist with a number of pills of a type defined by the prescription. The pharmacist assembles the compartments to form the pillbox. The pillbox electronic circuitry responds to the detachable data medium memory to derive medication alarm signals to advise a pillbox user to take the medication.