An Android Based Medication Reminder System: A Concept Analysis Approach

摘要

Failure to take medication as prescribed is one of the leading issues in heath care today. A class of applications designed to remind people to take their medication as prescribed. While there are quite a few medication reminder systems available, they all require the user to enter the data manually. To simplify the use of these applications, development of a system is presented in this paper that allows the user to take a picture of his/her prescription medication labels and have reminders automatically generated for them. The system is developed for Android OS powered mobile devices and it employs image processing and a concept analysis approach. The accuracy for parsing dosing instruction text from images of medication labels and creating reminder events is over 90%.