Paper Info
Title
Feasibility of mHealth and Near Field Communication technology based medication adherence monitoring.
Abstract
Poor patients' adherence to intake of prescribed medication has been identified as a serious problem in the treatment of chronically ill patients. Technical solutions are needed to measure and - if necessary - to increase the patients' adherence. A telemonitoring solution was developed to record a patient's medication intake based on smart blisters and mobile phones with NFC functionality. The components allowed recording of drug type, timestamp, and dosage of pills taken. The system's usability and technical feasibility was evaluated in the course of an application study. Over a period of 13 months 59 patients suffering from diabetes were monitored. 1,760 blisters were handed out to these patients and 14,843 takeout events were recorded and transmitted via mobile phone. Results indicate the feasibility of this concept to monitor adherence. Although the system still needs to be optimized for routine use it shows the potential for targeting the problem of poor patient adherence by NFC enabled devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/EMBC.2012.6345922
EMBC
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile handsets,diabetes,diseases,medication adherence monitoring,telemedicine,near field communication technology based medication adherence monitoring,mobile phone,biomedical measurement,patient monitoring,nfc functionality,drug type,mhealth,pill,smart blister,patient medication intake,telemonitoring solution,nfc enabled device,drugs
Technical feasibility,Telemedicine,Near field communication,Computer security,Remote patient monitoring,Usability,Pill,Electronic engineering,mHealth,Mobile phone,Medical emergency,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2012
1557-170X
978-1-4577-1787-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
1.24
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juergen Morak171.24
Mark Schwarz271.24
Dieter Hayn313214.41
Günter Schreier45623.73