Mobile Application: Patients' Adherence to Medicine In-take Schedules

ABSTRACT

Thailand is currently facing an aging society problem. Taking care of elders is of great importance in Thai culture. Young generations now have to work harder and typically do not have time to take care of the elderly. This research presents the patients' adherence for medicine in-take schedules, which is an application for the Android smartphone. This also employs an Arduino board and load cell sensor to track patient's medication. The system can track the medicine in-take state using the medicine weight sensor and then alarms the patient in advance so that caregivers get the right information and can help the patient to take their medicine at the proper time. Hence, this research proposes a new prototype for an elder care center or family with members that need to control and track the patient's medication. The efficiency of the notification system is 96.88%.

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Life and medical sciences

    • Health care information systems

    • Health informatics