From Compliance to Context - Advancing Assistive Technology Capabilities for Medication Management

From Compliance to Context

  It is a well known fact that patients do not always comply with their prescribed medication regimes. This may be partly attributed to the complexity surrounding the compliance issue itself. Issues relating to compliance involve a number of stakeholders in the supply-to-intake chain of medication and in addition are complicated further by the manner in which the medication is prescribed, delivered and taken. This paper presents an innovative electromechanical compliance aid which can be used within a person"s home and can be monitored remotely via Internet based technologies. The technology developed has been evaluated in 4 pilot sites and initial results have shown its usage to improve patient compliance levels and also to reduce the workload of stakeholders involved in home based support of medication management. The paper concludes with a vision of consolidating the proposed technical solution with advances in context prediction to further improve home based medication management services.