A cloud based potentially inappropriate medication management system using patient owned personal health records

  • Hsiu An Lee
  • , Louis R. Chao
  • , Hsiao Hsien Rau
  • , Shang Dong Yang
  • , Chien Yeh Hsu

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

Taiwan has been confronted with a serious problem of aging in recent years. The prevalence of the chronic diseases caused by aging is increased continuously, which has led to a high percentage of comorbidity and polypharmacy. The proportion of the elderly people with polypharmacy (over three to five kinds of drugs) is 81%. Under the situation of high comorbidity, the potentially inappropriate drug for the elderly have become a series problem. However, in order to promote personal health management, Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare has released a service of “My Health Bank”, which contains all the personal medical information issued by the National Health Insurance Department and can be downloaded by any individual person. This study designs a cloud-based personal health management platform to parse and store the information of “My Health Bank”, establishes two databases, one for the health insurance drug table and one for the inappropriate medications. A warning of inappropriate personal medication will be generated based on a checking process. We expect that the application will enhance the safety of medication and improve the self-health management of the elderly.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNursing Informatics 2018 - ICT to Improve Quality and Safety at the Point of Care
EditorsAnn Kristin Rotegard, Angelica G. Davalos Alcazar, Diane J. Skiba, Sayonara Barbosa
PublisherIOS Press
Pages208-212
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781614998716
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event14th International Congress on Nursing and Allied Health Informatics, NI 2018 - Guadalajara, Mexico
Duration: Jun 6 2018Jun 8 2018

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume250
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Conference

Conference14th International Congress on Nursing and Allied Health Informatics, NI 2018
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityGuadalajara
Period6/6/186/8/18

Keywords

  • Cloud Based Health Management
  • Elderly
  • PIM

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics
  • Health Information Management

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