Research Article
Leveraging Medication Safety through Mobile Computing: Decision Support and Guidance Services for Adverse Drug Event Prevention
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257531, author={Vassilis Koutkias and Vassilis Kilintzis and Nikolaos Beredimas and Nicos Maglaveras}, title={Leveraging Medication Safety through Mobile Computing: Decision Support and Guidance Services for Adverse Drug Event Prevention}, proceedings={4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH}, year={2014}, month={12}, keywords={patient safety medication adverse drug event prevention decision support and guidance mobile computing smartphones}, doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257531} }- Vassilis Koutkias
Vassilis Kilintzis
Nikolaos Beredimas
Nicos Maglaveras
Year: 2014
Leveraging Medication Safety through Mobile Computing: Decision Support and Guidance Services for Adverse Drug Event Prevention
MOBIHEALTH
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257531
Abstract
In this paper, we present an approach for pervasive access to guidance and decision support services for medication safety targeting patients/citizens and healthcare professionals, respectively. We particularly focus on Adverse Drug Event (ADE) prevention by exploiting a novel decision support framework through mobile technologies. The main aspect of our work involved tailoring the designed services to the mobile terminal and the respective interaction. For example, we considered the technical features supported by modern mobile phones, such as barcode scanning and Augmented Reality (AR), in order to identify the drugs of interest and avoid difficulties and errors in keying-in drug names by the user. We illustrate the applicability and virtue of the proposed approach via a mobile application that has been particularly designed to meet these goals.
