Title
Smart Medication Dispenser: Design, Architecture and Implementation
Abstract
This paper presents the architecture and implementation of an automatic medication dispenser for users who take medications without close professional supervision. By relieving the user from the error-prone tasks of interpreting medication directions and administrating medications accordingly, the device can improve the rigor in compliance and prevent serious medication errors. By taking advantage of scheduling flexibility provided by medication directions, the device makes the user's medication schedule easy to adhere and tolerant to tardiness whenever possible. The medication scheduler and dispenser controller do this work collaboratively in an action-oriented manner. An advantage of this design is that new functions can be added and existing ones removed or revised with little or no need to modify the dispenser control structure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/JSYST.2010.2070970
IEEE Systems Journal
Keywords
DocType
Volume
medication directions,health care,Action-oriented collaboration,action oriented collaboration,user interfaces,professional supervision,medication error,smart device architecture,dispenser controller,user medication scheduling,medical computing,embedded systems,smart medication dispenser
Journal
5
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1932-8184
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pei-Hsuan Tsai1253.25
Tsung-Yen Chen2375.73
Chi-Sheng Yu310.41
Chi-Sheng Shih450866.29
Jane W.-S. Liu51399337.97