Research Article
MPCS: Mobile-phone based patient compliance system for chronic illness care
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6829, author={Guanling Chen and Bo Yan and Minho Shin and David Kotz and Ethan Berke}, title={MPCS: Mobile-phone based patient compliance system for chronic illness care}, proceedings={1st International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Healthcare Applications}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={MOBILE HEALTHCARE}, year={2009}, month={11}, keywords={Biomedical measurements Costs Diabetes Diseases Educational institutions Hypertension Medical services Medical treatment Mobile handsets Patient monitoring}, doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6829} }- Guanling Chen
Bo Yan
Minho Shin
David Kotz
Ethan Berke
Year: 2009
MPCS: Mobile-phone based patient compliance system for chronic illness care
MOBILE HEALTHCARE
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2009.6829
Abstract
More than 100 million Americans are currently living with at least one chronic health condition and expenditures on chronic diseases account for more than 75 percent of the $2.3 trillion cost of our healthcare system. To improve chronic illness care, patients must be empowered and engaged in health self-management. However, only half of all patients with chronic illness comply with treatment regimen. The self-regulation model, while seemingly valuable, needs practical tools to help patients adopt this self-centered approach for long-term care. In this position paper, we propose Mobile-phone based Patient Compliance System (MPCS) that can reduce the time-consuming and error-prone processes of existing self-regulation practice to facilitate self-reporting, non-compliance detection, and compliance reminders. The novelty of this work is to apply social-behavior theories to engineer the MPCS to positively influence patients' compliance behaviors, including mobile-delivered contextual reminders based on association theory; mobile-triggered questionnaires based on self-perception theory; and mobile-enabled social interactions based on social-construction theory. We discuss the architecture and the research challenges to realize the proposed MPCS.