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Construction and application of medication reminder system: intelligent generation of universal medication schedule
Hangxing Huang1,2,3, Lu Zhang1,2, Yongyu Yang4
1Department of Pharmacy, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, NO.87, Xiangya Road, Changsha, 410008, Hunan Province, China.
Background:
Patients with chronic conditions need multiple medications daily to manage their condition. However, most patients have poor compliance, which affects the effectiveness of treatment. To address these challenges, we establish a medication reminder system for the intelligent generation of universal medication schedule (UMS) to remind patients with chronic diseases to take medication accurately and to improve safety of home medication.
Methods:
To design medication time constraint with one drug (MTCOD) for each drug and medication time constraint with multi-drug (MTCMD) for each two drugs in order to better regulate the interval and time of patients' medication. Establishment of a medication reminder system consisting of a cloud database of drug information, an operator terminal for medical staff and a patient terminal.
Results:
The cloud database has a total of 153,916 pharmaceutical products, 496,708 drug interaction data, and 153,390 pharmaceutical product-ingredient pairs. The MTCOD data was 153,916, and the MTCMD data was 8,552,712. An intelligent UMS medication reminder system was constructed. The system can read the prescription information of patients and provide personalized medication guidance with medication timeline for chronic patients. At the same time, patients can query medication information and get remote pharmacy guidance in real time.
Conclusions:
Overall, the medication reminder system provides intelligent medication reminders, automatic drug interaction identification, and monitoring system, which is helpful to monitor the entire process of treatment in patients with chronic diseases.
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