Pervasive
Improving the Effectiveness of
Medical Treatment with Pervasive Computing Technologies
ABSTRACT
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, already realized that “the physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also make the patient ... cooperate” Medical compliance – commonly defined as the extent to which a patient conforms to medical advice about lifestyle and dietary changes as well as taking medication as prescribed – remains a challenge more than twenty centuries after Hippocrates. When Sullivan et al. studied the cost of noncompliance with medication regimens in the American health care system; they found that 5.5% of all hospitalizations they investigated in their study were due to patients not taking their medications as prescribed. Medical science is making continuous progress in discovering and developing more effective and efficient treatment methods and is coming to rely on information technology in general to assist in those treatments Our paper analyzes the application of pervasive computing technologies that can significantly help patients manage their diseases and hence improve patient adherence to medical treatments.
The scenario that we envision is smart medication – e.g. a medication package augmented with pervasive computing technologies – informs the patient about the effectiveness and side effects of the treatment, sends reminders to take the medication, informs relatives of elderly patients about their adherence to the treatment, detects dangerous combinations between different types of medication and alerts users about recalls or expired medication. We also have analyzed about Pilot study that will help out the doctors to look after the patients who are residing in their home from the hospital. From a technological perspective, we propose that the combination of smart objects and the patient’s mobile phone has a lot of potential in the healthcare domain because the smart objects will benefit from the
Medical Treatment with Pervasive Computing Technologies
ABSTRACT
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, already realized that “the physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also make the patient ... cooperate” Medical compliance – commonly defined as the extent to which a patient conforms to medical advice about lifestyle and dietary changes as well as taking medication as prescribed – remains a challenge more than twenty centuries after Hippocrates. When Sullivan et al. studied the cost of noncompliance with medication regimens in the American health care system; they found that 5.5% of all hospitalizations they investigated in their study were due to patients not taking their medications as prescribed. Medical science is making continuous progress in discovering and developing more effective and efficient treatment methods and is coming to rely on information technology in general to assist in those treatments Our paper analyzes the application of pervasive computing technologies that can significantly help patients manage their diseases and hence improve patient adherence to medical treatments.
The scenario that we envision is smart medication – e.g. a medication package augmented with pervasive computing technologies – informs the patient about the effectiveness and side effects of the treatment, sends reminders to take the medication, informs relatives of elderly patients about their adherence to the treatment, detects dangerous combinations between different types of medication and alerts users about recalls or expired medication. We also have analyzed about Pilot study that will help out the doctors to look after the patients who are residing in their home from the hospital. From a technological perspective, we propose that the combination of smart objects and the patient’s mobile phone has a lot of potential in the healthcare domain because the smart objects will benefit from the