A remotely programmable smart pillbox for enhancing medication adherence

Author

Abbey, Brianna ; Alipour, Anahita ; Gilmour, Logan ; Camp, Christopher ; Hofer, Crys ; Lederer, Robert ; Rasmussen, Greig ; Liu, Lili ; Nikolaidis, Ioanis ; Stroulia, Eleni ; Sadowski, Cheryl

Author_Institution

Fac. of Pharmacy, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Medication adherence is an important challenge for many patients with chronic conditions, most of them elderly. Technology has an important role to play in this area potentially, with electronic devices equipped with reminder capability and medication intake recording. In this paper, we present a remotely programmable pillbox. This pillbox is equipped with a web application which gives the health professional or caregiver a tool to check and program the pillbox. Also, a mobile application is implemented to establish a connection with the web-application to show pills´ daily schedule and pill taking notifications.

Keywords

medical administrative data processing; medical computing; mobile computing; chronic conditions; electronic devices; medication adherence; medication intake recording; mobile application; pill daily schedule; pill taking notifications; remotely programmable smart pillbox; web application; Light emitting diodes; Medical services; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Schedules; Sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2012 25th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2049-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2012.6266350

Filename

6266350