A software model of mobile notification system for medication misuse prevention

Abstract

The one of the most common problems affecting older patients is the misuse of prescribed therapies. The patients, in many cases, forget to take their therapy, use it twice or even use the wrong medication. Since all of the mentioned cases can trigger further serious health problems, and since the majority of the population in Serbia already uses mobile phones, we decided to extend our existing medical information system with a prescription service that will allow the development of mobiledevice based notification system. The notification system will then help patients with medication timing and dosing issues to take their therapies more accurate and to prevent possible health complications. In this paper we present the existing mobile services offered by the medical information system Medis.NET, as well as an architectural solution for the extension of the existing software with a prescription and notification service. The architectural solution is followed by the example of an initial implementation, description of the most important use-cases and related test results. In a near future, we plan to improve the proposed solution by offering new options to the patients, easing the connection with third party services and by developing a smartphone application that can improve the complete interaction with patients.