Support for Medication Safety and Compliance in Smart Home Environments

Abstract

The rapid pace of new medications introduced to the market and the trend of modern healthcare towards specialization complicates doctors’ prescribing process and patients’ management of medications, resulting in an increase in the likelihood of unsafe prescriptions. The severity of this problem is magnified when patients require multiple medications or have cognitive impairments. The Medicine Information Support System (MISS) is designed to integrate related information systems from doctor offices, pharmacies and patients’ smart homes with a universal database of medication conflicts to enable safety checks for adverse reactions among prescribed medications. MISS enhances the quality of patients’ healthcare by monitoring and promoting the compliance of patients’ medication intake. It also ensures patients’ medical records remain private by following the privacy guidelines and regulations such as the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) law in the United States.

A framework for safe composition of heterogeneous SOA services in a pervasive computing environment with resource constraints

“…The overall MISS functionality starts at the doctor's subsystem where the doctor enters the new prescription's data and checks for conflicts with previous medications and health conditions using a trusted third party [111]. If no conflict is found, MISS uses a secure…”

“…We provide an example of our approach applicable to smart home environments. The example used is based on the Medicine Information Support System (MISS) [68], [111] that is a medication management service. MISS is composed of several services interactions and the safety criteria…”

“…Our approach to model baseline services is shown using as an example the Medicine Information Support System (MISS), which integrates the doctor, the pharmacy, and the smart home to help the patient manage medications [111]. The smart home service is also modeled with a regular flow and an alternate flow.…”

“…The smart home service is also modeled with a regular flow and an alternate flow. The regular flow models when the smart home receives a prescription from the pharmacy, checks for conflicts with medications and foods at home, and checks for timeliness and completeness as described in [111]. The alternative flow models when another party requests a patient's record.…”