Self-care using smartphone apps
Engage in your medication and health management

Pharmaceutical industry advancement over last few decades has created solutions and medications for chronic diseases patients that dramatically improves their life quality and survival rate. However, staying on top of taking multiple medications, remembering to follow recommended activities such as walking or diets, and recording various health parameters daily such as blood pressure and pain are still a big challenge for patients. There are over 7 billion mobile phones in the world, and over 2.3 billion of them had access to internet on their mobile devices in 2014 [1]. 86% of the Australian households have internet access on their mobiles or smartphones [2]. So how can use this opportunity to solve many patients day to day self-care?
The technology and mobile users growing and the mobile phone technology is available to everyone around the world soon. This provides a great opportunity to develop mobile phones that can be used to deliver education, collect data, diagnose, screen and monitor patients, offer treatments, change behaviour and provide effective communication between patients and professionals This will make it easier for patients and professionals help manage their health and medication adherence.
There are a growing number of smartphone health applications to help patients to follow their long-term medications. However, research studies has shown that effective engagement with patients and encouraging them to adhere with their medication without diagnosis or treatment recommendations have not been addressed effectively in the current applications. Lack of engagement and feedback from professionals in the development process lowers the effectiveness of the application and will therefore make it harder for professional to recommend to their patients. [2,3]
We are developing an advanced patient-centred, interactive, engaging and customisable mobile application solution. Our aim is to make health and medication management mindful. Follow us on socials to keep updated on our developments.
References:
[1] Bailey, Stacy Cooper, et al. “The availability, functionality, and quality of mobile applications supporting medication self-management.” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 21.3 (2013): 542–546.
[2 ] Santo, Karla, et al. “Mobile phone apps to improve medication adherence: a systematic stepwise process to identify high-quality apps.” JMIR mHealth and uHealth 4.4 (2016).
[3 ] Santo, Karla, et al. “Medication reminder applications to improve adherence in coronary heart disease: a randomised clinical trial.” Heart (2018): heartjnl-2018.
