Mobile reminder system for furthering patient adherence utilizing commodity smartwatch and Android devices

Patients´ non-adherence is a common problem that significantly reduces the effectiveness of treatments and increases mortality and healthcare costs. Forgetfulness is reported as a usual barrier to adherence. Electronic reminder systems consist an increasingly used type of intervention, which assists patients that are facing this problem. Important requirements regarding the design of such systems are multimodality, personalization and easy integration into the patient´s daily life. The goal of this work is to present a multimodal electronic reminder system that supports the use of smart devices and utilizes the recently introduced Pebble smartwatch. The system employs cloud technology and also allows for other types of users with a supportive role in the patient´s health care, such as the patient´s doctor and pharmacist. Patient compliance is measured automatically with the method of self-reporting. The paper includes a brief evaluation of the user interface and some future research directions.