Field trial of patients-pharmacists interactive communication system for remote medication support

Author

Tsuruoka, K. ; Toda, Takechi ; Ozaki, S. ; Ideguchi, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nihon Univ., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

6-8 March 2013

Firstpage

252

Lastpage

256

Abstract

Telecommunication systems for the pharmacists to support the outpatient medical treatment have been gaining attention. However in the conventional systems, low usability and interactivity of the system became key problems to support medication. In this research, we developed a patients-pharmacists interactive communication system and investigated it´s benefit through a 2-month field trial. We carried out the trial for thirty-five outpatients plus their family, and four pharmacists in a dispensing pharmacy in Yokohama. The result showed high effectiveness of the proposed user-interface to the medication compliance and adherence.

Keywords

biomedical communication; telecommunication computing; user interfaces; field trial; medication compliance; outpatient medical treatment; patients-pharmacists interactive communication system; remote medication support; telecommunication system; user interface; Communication systems; Drugs; Electronic mail; Monitoring; Pediatrics; User interfaces; dispensing pharmacy; interactive communication; medication support; smartphone; user interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), 2013 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

2326-828X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5770-8

Electronic_ISBN

2326-828X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMICT.2013.6521739

Filename

6521739