Survey of patient and physician assessment of a compliance reminder device in the treatment of hypertension

This article describes the development and importance of devices to improve patient compliance and presents information on why some devices have been accepted very positively by patients and health care professionals.  Some of these reminder tools include mechanical devices like pill boxes, calendars printed on the blister cards and wallet packs that hold a strip of medication, electronic reminders like wristwatches programmable to dosing schedules, reminder software for personal computers or personal digital assistant. The authors conclude that the majority of the patients accept well the use of devices to improve their compliance and a majority of respondents expressed the desire to continue its use.

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Med Tracker one of the many options to help your patient to increase medicine compliance

Hello everyone here is another of the many tool that we can recommend to our patient to help them to improve their medicine compliance. Med Tracker app is a graphing tool that will help patient to keep track their medicines and what medicine they should take. It also allows to generate a wallpaper to remind them when and what to take even if their phone is locked. The app is streamlined, easy to use interface, have powerful and scrollable graph that tracks medicine the patient taken over a week/month/quarter. New in version 2.1: Refreshed design for UI, Added reminder feature, sorting for medication logs, supported sending your medication logs as email.

drchrono: iPad Patient CarePlatform

Drchrono electronic health records (EHR) help the healthcare provider to save time, reduce prescription errors and icrease efficiency. The platform is focused on features that are a necessity to every practice. This Ipad platform is available for free to up to $399.99 monthly.

Some features of drchrono iPad EHR :

·  Free E-Prescribing: Writing prescrip-tions from the drchrono iPad app is now free for all users. Select any drug, anytime, from anywhere and send the prescription directly to the pharmacy for the patient to pick up.

·  OnPatient app: Patients use an intuitive interface on the iPad with a large keyboard so they can easily tap their way through registration. At their next visit, they simply confirm the existing information in a tap. Your staff saves time and tedium.

·  FreeDraw: With FreeDraw, a physician can do freehand, color-coded drawings on any document, including X-rays, skeletal diagrams, etc. For example, a physician can circle an area on an X-ray, write a note, and then send the X-ray with the drawing on it to a referring physician or specialist for review.

·  Faxing: Physicians can now send faxes from the drchrono iPad app or Web application. Simply select the option to send a fax directly from the patient’s record, enter a fax number, and attach a cover sheet with a personal note.