A Prototype of Simple and Low-Cost Medication Support System for Outpatient under Long-Term Treatment

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This paper presents an implementation of simple and low-cost medication support system for outpatient of cerebral infarction who has to keep medication every day for long term. The system consists of the outpatient and the pharmacist terminals at the dispensing-pharmacy. The outpatient terminal features the displays of compliance status and 3D simulation of cerebral infarction, contact functions to dispensing-pharmacy (e.g. call, text and voice messages). The pharmacist terminal features response functions to contacts from the outpatients, displays of the compliance status and the 3D simulation of cerebral infarction same as the outpatient terminal. The compliance status of the outpatients is automatically transmitted to the pharmacist terminal through e-mail connections each day. We designed different symptoms of the blood flow simulation according to the blood-stuck level which are estimated by weighted moving average of the daily compliance status ("took medicine" or "did not take medicine"). The different symptoms of 3D simulation are also registered in the database on the outpatient and the pharmacist terminals, respectively, and are switched according to the shared compliance status. Conventional medication support system used MySQL database engine on web server for those features and thus needed to introduce web server in dispensing-pharmacy. The proposed system realizes simple and low-cost by making the database of those compliance status data using the SQLite database engine on the terminals.