TY - JOUR
T1 - The smart pill sticker
T2 - Introducing a smart pill management system based on touch-point technology
AU - Kataria, Garvit
AU - Dhyani, Kshitij
AU - Patel, Darsh
AU - Srinivasan, Kathiravan
AU - Malwade, Shwetambara
AU - Syed Abdul, Shabbir
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (grant numbers 108-2221-E-038-013, 110-2923-E-038-001-MY3); Taipei Medical University, Taiwan (grant numbers 108-3805-009-110, 109-3800-020-400); Ministry of Education, Taiwan (grant number 108-6604-002-400); Wanfang hospital, Taiwan (grant number 106TMU-WFH-01-4).
Funding Information:
We are thankful to the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and Taipei Medical University, Taiwan for providing the necessary funding to carry out this research work.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/11/1
Y1 - 2021/11/1
N2 - Older adults tend to suffer from multi-morbidity, requiring complex treatment methodologies demanding poly-pharmacy. The increasing medication usage can tend towards the mismanagement of prescriptions and irregular or faulty administration. Thus, there arises an urgent need for a proper pill management system for these prescribed medicines. To tackle this grave concern, we propose a mobile, cost-effective, robust, and easy to use solution involving the extension to the human body-smartphones and conductive stickers. The technology utilizes a unique combination of touch-points on the smartphone screen to recognize the medication and give information regarding the proper usage and dosage and gives a reminder of the intake of the medicine. Our tool is comprised of two components—(1) the conductive ink stickers containing a unique combination of conductive inks to be applied to the pill container and (2) the mobile application utilizing touch-points generated by the conductive ink sticker to give information of the corresponding medicine. The following functionalities could be performed by the application-detection of pill container: providing essential information about pill container and dosage; keeping a count of pills already taken, to be taken and remaining pills; reordering the medication and reminding about the medicine intake at the correct designated time.
AB - Older adults tend to suffer from multi-morbidity, requiring complex treatment methodologies demanding poly-pharmacy. The increasing medication usage can tend towards the mismanagement of prescriptions and irregular or faulty administration. Thus, there arises an urgent need for a proper pill management system for these prescribed medicines. To tackle this grave concern, we propose a mobile, cost-effective, robust, and easy to use solution involving the extension to the human body-smartphones and conductive stickers. The technology utilizes a unique combination of touch-points on the smartphone screen to recognize the medication and give information regarding the proper usage and dosage and gives a reminder of the intake of the medicine. Our tool is comprised of two components—(1) the conductive ink stickers containing a unique combination of conductive inks to be applied to the pill container and (2) the mobile application utilizing touch-points generated by the conductive ink sticker to give information of the corresponding medicine. The following functionalities could be performed by the application-detection of pill container: providing essential information about pill container and dosage; keeping a count of pills already taken, to be taken and remaining pills; reordering the medication and reminding about the medicine intake at the correct designated time.
KW - aging population
KW - medication
KW - pill management
KW - poly-pharmacy
KW - smart pill
KW - touchpoint
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U2 - 10.1177/14604582211052848
DO - 10.1177/14604582211052848
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121029650
SN - 1460-4582
VL - 27
JO - Health Informatics Journal
JF - Health Informatics Journal
IS - 4
ER -
