An Intelligent Medicine Cabinet Proposed to Increase Medication Adherence

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1 University of Stuttgart Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. P. Göhner An Intelligent Medicine Cabinet Proposed to Increase Medication Adherence University of Stuttgart, Germany University of Manaus, Brazil Authors: Claudio E. M. Gomes Farzan Yazdi Vicente F. Lucena Jr. Peter Göhner 2013, IAS 1

2 Motivation A complicated task: Which medicine when? Is a medicine expired? Are there incompatibilities between them? Etc. An automated solution to support people with medicine taking! 2013, IAS 2

3 Content Motivation of the project and used technologies The concept of the intelligent medicine cabinet and outlook 2013, IAS 3

4 Goals of the intelligent medicine cabinet: Support users with medication at home Hints on medicine taking Administration of prescriptions Warning in case of danger: Incompatibility between medicine Allergies Expired medicine Child safety Hints on medicine that is shortly running out Multi language support Intuitive and simple usage for everyone 2013, IAS 4

5 Intuitive and simple usage of automated systems Complicated operation Hidden functions Not user specific Lack of usability! Approach Involve users in the development (User Centered Design) Provide user and situation specific interaction Consider the users mental model 2013, IAS 5

6 Content Motivation of the project and used technologies The concept of the intelligent medicine cabinet and outlook 2013, IAS 6

7 Overall idea Works similar to a conventional medicine cabinet Provides instructions in multimodal ways (e.g. for visually impaired users) Conducts the medication User interacts in the conventional manner He/She receives auditive and visual instructions 2013, IAS 7

8 Identification of the user, the medicine and the prescriptions RFID-Technology Consists of an RFID reader and one or more RFID tags Tags are paper-like chips, which contains data up to 112 bytes RFID reader has an antenna through which tags are detected with radio waves A tag consists of ID and data fields RFID tag Data Transmission RFID antenna RFID reader ID Data 2013, IAS 8

9 Content Motivation of the project and used technologies The concept of the intelligent medicine cabinet and outlook 2013, IAS 9

10 From conventional to intelligent Prescription e.g. correct schedule information on prescription e.g. Correct medicine and dose instructions Intelligent Medicine Cabinet information on user information on medicine User e.g. compatible and non-allergic Medicine 2013, IAS 10

11 Analysis of information User s name Medicines to be taken Duration of treatment Frequency of takings Prescription Quantity to take Delay action Acceptable delay Mutual verification e.g. prescription for this user? Correct time? Mutual verification e.g. Valid prescription for the medicine? Name Age group Language Allergies User Mutual verification e.g. Compatible? Dose? Medicine Medicine s Name Active ingredients Active ingredient group Dose for age groups Mutual verification of all information Rule-based verification 2013, IAS 11

12 System Architecture RFID tags Speech output Visual signals Program logic Web Interface 2013, IAS 12

13 Prototype Film 2012, IAS 13

14 Content Motivation of the project and used technologies The concept of the intelligent medicine cabinet and outlook 2013, IAS 14

15 Intelligent medicine cabinet Works similar to conventional medicine cabinets Can be used without technical background Provides visual and auditive instructions Administers prescriptions Warns the user against hazards Outlook Retrieving and updating the information from internet Integration of wireless monitoring and maintenance 2013, IAS 15

16 Thanks for your interest! Questions? 2013, IAS 16