Continuous activity monitoring and intelligent contextual prompting to improve medication adherence

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007:2007:6287-90. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353792.

Abstract

Poor medication adherence is a serious medical problem, particularly in older adults. Various solutions have been developed to remind people to take their medications, but these systems are usually simple time-based alarm systems that are not particularly effective. We describe a system that is context aware, and that utilizes information about past patterns of behavior plus the current context to provide prompts at the appropriate time and place. A case study from our initial deployment of the system to eleven older adults illustrates the possibilities and advantages of context aware prompting systems.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Drug Monitoring / instrumentation*
  • Drug Monitoring / methods
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / instrumentation*
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / methods
  • Motor Activity / drug effects*
  • Motor Activity / physiology*
  • Patient Compliance*
  • User-Computer Interface*