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The most dangerous problem in the modern day health-care system is missing medicines, mainly for those with complex medication schedule leading to non-adherence to medication. This is mainly due to the busy lifestyle we are leading. Life today is full of obligations and tension and people are vulnerable to various forms of diseases. Long duration of medication errors may lead to serious health issues mainly for older patients or patients with chronic illness. Since non-adherence to medication will just complicate our lives so to deal with this present day problem, to increase adherence to medication and to simplify our lives, the Med-Alert android application is introduced and discussed here in this paper. It is implemented with the objective of informing patients of their dose timings via Alarm Ringing system. The Med-Alert app discussed in this paper, is an all-in-one android application that replaces the traditional way of manually noting down date and time of taking medicines. It includes features like setting customized alarm, getting notifications on desired date and time with medicine and dosage details which also facilitate in noting down appointment details and fetching required physician contact details for booking appointments in need of emergency. Med-Alert provides provision of searching doctors based on diseases. A prototype of Med-Alert has been implemented on Android Mobile Platform. The Med-Alert app discussed in this paper increases adherence to medication and also focuses on contacting of patients with doctors.
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Kundu, S., Chattopadhyay, M. (2021). Med-Alert: An Android Application to Increase Adherence to Medication. In: Balas, V.E., Hassanien, A.E., Chakrabarti, S., Mandal, L. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Data Science and Cloud Computing. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 62. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4968-1_36
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