TY - GEN
T1 - Bidirectional medication support system for medical staff and home care patients
AU - Suzuki, Shiori
AU - Yokoishi, Takehiro
AU - Hada, Hisakazu
AU - Mitsugi, Jin
AU - Nakamura, Osamu
AU - Murai, Jun
PY - 2011/5/30
Y1 - 2011/5/30
N2 - We have developed a system using a combination of a multi-hop sensor network and 3G networks to support patients daily medication in home care. Each medication of a patient is represented by a sequence of close-open-close events of an off-the-shelf pill box, which are detected by a small Hall sensor. The system enables home visiting nurses to remotely monitor their patients' medication and to give feedback on the medication status to patients. This bidirectional communication between medical staff and patients is essential to motivate patients' medication and to make their experience of being taken care for at homes more comfortable. A semi-automatic message generation system helps medical staff to send feedback without spending excessive time and effort. We have been examining this system for more than three months with three subjects and found that a simple open/close sensing of an off-the-shelf pill box can provide a valuable medication history. It has also shown that the feedback system improves the rate of failure medication from 5.3% to 0.0% in the best case.
AB - We have developed a system using a combination of a multi-hop sensor network and 3G networks to support patients daily medication in home care. Each medication of a patient is represented by a sequence of close-open-close events of an off-the-shelf pill box, which are detected by a small Hall sensor. The system enables home visiting nurses to remotely monitor their patients' medication and to give feedback on the medication status to patients. This bidirectional communication between medical staff and patients is essential to motivate patients' medication and to make their experience of being taken care for at homes more comfortable. A semi-automatic message generation system helps medical staff to send feedback without spending excessive time and effort. We have been examining this system for more than three months with three subjects and found that a simple open/close sensing of an off-the-shelf pill box can provide a valuable medication history. It has also shown that the feedback system improves the rate of failure medication from 5.3% to 0.0% in the best case.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISMICT.2011.5759816
DO - 10.1109/ISMICT.2011.5759816
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79957515522
SN - 9781424494439
T3 - 2011 5th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, ISMICT 2011
SP - 147
EP - 151
BT - 2011 5th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, ISMICT 2011
T2 - 2011 5th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, ISMICT 2011
Y2 - 27 March 2011 through 30 March 2011
ER -