Title :
Leveraging medication safety through mobile computing: Decision support and guidance services for adverse drug event prevention
Author :
Koutkias, Vassilis ; Kilintzis, V. ; Beredimas, Nikolaos ; Maglaveras, Nicos
Author_Institution :
Med. Sch., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract :
In this paper, we present an approach for ubiquitous and pervasive access to guidance and decision support services for medication safety targeting patients/citizens and healthcare professionals, respectively. We particularly focus on Adverse Drug Event (ADE) prevention by exploiting a novel decision support framework through mobile technologies. The main aspect of our work involved tailoring the designed services to the mobile terminal and the respective user interaction. For example, we considered the technical features supported by modern mobile phones, such as Augmented Reality (AR), barcode scanning, and Near-Field Communication (NFC) tagging for identifying the drugs of interest, in order to avoid difficulties and errors in keying-in drug names by the user. We illustrate the applicability and virtue of the proposed approach via a mobile application that has been particularly designed to meet these goals.
Keywords :
augmented reality; decision support systems; drugs; health care; medical computing; mobile computing; mobile handsets; near-field communication; telemedicine; adverse drug event prevention; augmented reality; barcode scanning; decision support services; guidance services; healthcare professionals; keying-in drug names; leveraging medication safety; medication safety targeting patients-citizens; mobile application; mobile computing; mobile technologies; mobile terminal; modern mobile phones; near-field communication tagging; pervasive access; respective user interaction; technical features; ubiquitous access; Drugs; Mobile communication; Safety; Smart phones; Tagging; Adverse Drug Event Prevention; Decision Support and Guidance; Medication; Mobile Computing; Patient Safety; Smartphones;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth), 2014 EAI 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
DOI :
10.1109/MOBIHEALTH.2014.7015898