Tschanz, Mauro; Dorner, Tim Lucas; Denecke, Kerstin (2017). eMedication Meets eHealth with the Electronic Medication Management Assistant (eMMA). Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 236, pp. 196-203. 10.3233/978-1-61499-759-7-196
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Background: A patient’s healthcare team is often missing a complete overview on the prescribed and dispensed medication. This is due to an inconsistent information flow between the different actors of the healthcare system. Often, only the patient himself knows exactly which drugs he is actually taking. Objectives: Our objective is to exploit different eHealth technologies available or planned in Switzerland to improve the information flow of the medication data among the stakeholder and to support the patient in managing his medication.Methods: This work is embedded in the "Hospital of the Future Live" project, involving 16 companies and 6 hospitals in order to develop IT solutions for future optimized health care processes. A comprehensive set of requirements was collected from the different actors and project partners. Further, specifications of the available or planned eHealth infrastructure were reviewed to integrate relevant technologies into a coherent concept. Results: We developed a concept that combines the medication list and an eHealth platform. The resulting electronic medication management assistant (eMMA) designed for the patient provides the current medication plan at any time and supports by providing relevant information through a conversational user interface. Conclusion: In Switzerland, we still need a bridging technology to combine the medication information from the electronic patient record with the medication plan's associated QR-Code. The developed app is intended to provide such bridge and demonstrates the usefulness of the eMediplan. It enables the patient to have all data regarding his medication on his personal mobile phone and he can - if necessary - provide the current medication to the health professional. Keywords. EHealth, Electronic Prescription, Medication Safety, Medication System, Conversational UI, mHealth
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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School of Engineering and Computer Science > Institute for Patient-centered Digital Health School of Engineering and Computer Science |
Name: |
Tschanz, Mauro; Dorner, Tim Lucas and Denecke, Kerstin  0000-0001-6691-396X |
Language: |
English |
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Service Account |
Date Deposited: |
31 Jan 2020 11:26 |
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26 Oct 2023 14:32 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3233/978-1-61499-759-7-196 |
ARBOR DOI: |
10.24451/arbor.5831 |
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https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/5831 |
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