Authors:
Ana-María López
1
;
Eduardo Pascual
1
;
Ana-María Salinas
1
;
Guillermo Azuara
1
and
Rafael Gómez
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Zaragoza, Spain
;
2
San José Hospital, Spain
Keyword(s):
Mobile System Based on Near Field Communication (NFC) Technology
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
In this paper a mobile system aimed to avoid medication error in home environments is described. It is
based on unambiguous identification of pillboxes or drugs packages with a Near Field Communication
(NFC) tag. This tag, whose information can be quickly read with a mobile phone equipped with an NFC
interface, can also store information about the patient and the prescribed dose. These data can be actualized
with the smartphone whenever the patient confirms a new medication-take just by approaching the
smartphone to the labelled box. The information is also locally saved in the phone and can be sent by SMS
to caregivers if necessary. The information into the NFC tag converts a simple mobile app into an
ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) context aware tool that avoids drug or patient confusion. To ensure that
even patients with low technological experience will be able and, more important, wish to use this system,
we have followed a user centered design methodology. The system adapts to d
ifferent patients profiles, and
to different degrees of digital literacy.
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