By: Amit Jaglan
Guide: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar
Description: To design a mobile based medicine reminder application that is,
(a). reliable,
(b). flexible,
(c). customizable,
(d). supportive.
Problem Statement:
People often forget or tend to forget their medication and miss it.Design a mobile based application that serves as a medicine reminder for the user.
Predictors of treatment concordance problems
Fish body diagram of patient’s non-intentional medication
concordance factors
concordance factors
Refined Problem Statement:
To design a mobile based medicine reminder application for the user that serves the desired purpose and is reliable, flexible and customizable at the same time.
Mind map of possibilities of solving the problem
Morphological chart showing attributes and related features
Features:
• Dependent/Independent of internet: The application will be able function without any internet connection as well with some features disabled but the main needed features functioning.
• Time zone tracking and syncing**: For frequent travellers, the application would automatically connect to the internet and sync itself to the local time zone so that the doses scheduled in different time zone are not
missed.
• Scheduling at will: The application will let the person to schedule on a daily, weekly, monthly basis or once in x days or twice in x days, whatever the user wants.
• Custom drug photos: Choose what a drug looks like from the database or click a picture yourself to remind you about the drug.
• Customizable skins: Choose from a variety of different available skins how you want your reminder to look like.
• Different colors: Try different color combinations and give your reminder the colors of your choice.
• Drug information: Add all the information about your drugs to help you remember everything about your health boosters.
• Previous records: Keep a medical record of all your treated illnesses, duration, medications taken etc. for future referneces.
• Postpone or skip drugs: Postpone or skip already scheduled drugs according to your will, for how long as you need.
• Dose history: The applications keeps a record of all your scheduled doses as ‘taken’,’skipped’ or ‘post-poned’ and maintains a database.
• Refill notifications: Using your dose history, the application reminds you if you need a refill so that you never miss your medications.
• Symptoms checker**: Enter your symptoms and the application will inform you about the possible illnesses, your previous records of those illnesses if any, medications taken previously etc.
• Suggestions**: Based on the medications you are currently on, the application will give you suggestions about the precautionary measures.
• Guardian control**: Assign your dear ones with the task of reminding you about your medicines and the application will do it for you.
• Physician and store tracking**: The application would search the nearset physicians and drug stores for you.
**-These features will work only when the application is connected to the web.
