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Over the past years, the importance of home-care treatments have been emphasized by governments, promoting the adoption of self-care management models, which may have positive effects on patient’s empowerment and on the overall healthcare system. In this context, polypharmacy management represents a major concern. A growing number of people are suffering from multiple chronic health conditions, which especially complicate the (self-) management of prescribed therapies, and puts a significant burden on patients’ lives. To alleviate that burden, we have developed a mobile health application, Sedato, following a thorough usability engineering process. Usability principles and guidelines have been applied to design a mobile application, which helps patient assume drugs timely and safely. Besides a reliable notification system, a continuous monitoring activity is performed to keep record of patient’s compliance to prescribed therapies. That information is shared in the context of a patient-centered digital health ecosystem, and is processed to produce knowledge relevant to the underlying territory.
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Sebillo, M., Vitiello, G., Cuciniello, D., Carrabs, S. (2017). Human-Centered Design of a Personal Medication Assistant - Putting Polypharmacy Management into Patient’s Hand!. In: Au, M., Castiglione, A., Choo, KK., Palmieri, F., Li, KC. (eds) Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing. GPC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10232. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57186-7_49
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