Design of a context-aware model to enhance medication adherence

Author

Lim, Myungeun ; Choi, Jae-Hun ; Bang, Sun-Lee ; Kim, Dae-Hee ; Park, Soo-Jun

Author_Institution

Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst. (ETRI), Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

5147

Lastpage

5150

Abstract

Medication adherence is important to patients who suffer from chronic disease. Regular medication activity reduces the cost of caring disease and prohibits the worsening of disease condition. To support patients taking medicine correctly, we developed a medication assistance system which alarms medication situation through multimedia messages and help patients to take a medicine. To enable the system copes with various situations related to a medication service, we designed a medication context model and implemented a state based context aware application. We also applied our system to patients and saw a little improvement in medication adherence.

Keywords

diseases; geriatrics; handicapped aids; telemedicine; chronic disease; context-aware model; elderly; medication adherence; medication assistance system; medication context model; medication service; multimedia messages; Age Distribution; Female; Health Plan Implementation; Humans; Male; Medication Adherence; Models, Theoretical; Sex Characteristics; Software Design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3296-7

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333467

Filename

5333467