A Medicine Dispenser System for Elderly Patient
- June 30, 2018
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume V, Issue VI, June 2018 | ISSN 2321–2705
A Medicine Dispenser System for Elderly Patient
Ridhi Bardoloi
ECE Department, GIMT, Guwahati, India
Abstract: Now a day’s people forget many things in day to day life due to their busy schedule. The patients especially aged people forget to take prescribed medication at the required time. It is difficult for caregiver to monitor patients at every instant of time. In order to avoid these problems, a medicine monitoring and dispensary system is needed. The system benefits the patient as well as caretaker.
In this paper we introduce different technology of medication dispenser system which is currently used for improving this situation through paper reviewing.
Keywords: RFID, Medication Error, RMAIS.
I. INTRODUCTION
A medication error can be defined as a failure in the treatment process that leads to or has the potential to lead to harm to the patient. However, it is important to detect medication errors, whether important or not, since doing so may reveal a failure in the treatment process that could on another occasion lead to harm. There is also evidence that the death rate from medication errors is increasing. As we have seen that the population increases day by day and simultaneously chronic disease increases a lot. The treatment of chronic disease need long term pharmacotherapy. Although these medications reduce the effect of diseases but it is not possible for the patient to remember their prescribed medication. Medication errors occur as a result of failure in prescribing, dispensing, monitoring and administration. They lead to many hundred thousands of serious adverse drug events, thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in hospital cost each year [1].
Common causes of these errors include: a)irregular medicine in-takes due to the patient’s busy schedule, b) complicated in-take schedules due to the large number of medicines taken by the patient, c) adverse drug reactions caused by un-reconciled prescriptions obtained from different sources, d) lack of knowledge about proper use of medicines.
