Healthcare System for Scheduled Medicine Dispensing and Reminder for Elderly People

Abstract

— The recent growth in technologies was extended into the field of health care to ease the approach towards the medical diagnosis and treatment. After the treatment the medication at right time is essential for the disease to get cured. In general, the patients may forget to take their pills at right time, and some people missed to take the medicines at an appropriate time because of their busy work schedule. The proposed system facilitates such persons by providing an alert according to the dosage schedule and in addition to this dispense the correct medicine as per the prescription to the concerned person with disability. The proposed system consists of a smart medicine box that is designed to help elderly patients taking their medications on time. The main feature of the proposed model is the automatic opening of the box and alarm will be raised to alert the patient to take the medicine. Another distinct feature is a mobile application is associated with the system which gives the privilege to the caretaker of patients to check and program the medicine box as per the medical prescription of the doctor. If the person under care does not take medicine even after the medicine is being dispensed, the caretaker will be informed via the mobile application to remind the patients manually. When the medicine box becomes empty the system will inform the caretaker through message to the registered mobile number to refill the pill box for further usage. Apart from the medication to the patients at right time, the entire data related to the patient will be available in the cloud for the convenience of assessment of patient health condition at any time. Thus, the proposed system will aid the people to monitor their health with right medication.