Analysis of Prescription Drug Regimen Compliance
Charles Mason
Computer Applications in Medicine REU 2006
University of Virginia
Introduction• Project Overview
• Software framework, and application to provide analysis of patients’ drug regimen compliance
• Previous Work• Amit Phull’s senior thesis• PDA application to remind patients and monitor
their compliance
Motivation• Monitoring patient compliance with their
prescription regimen is a major issue for many different fields of medicine
• Electronic Monitoring systems are currently the best way of providing doctor's with accurate information on patient compliance
• Current electronic monitoring systems have significant shortcomings
Current State-of-the-Art• Medication Events Monitoring System (MEMS)
by Aardex• Special containers record when prescription is
opened and closed• Separate software used to do basic analysis of the
data• Problems
• Costly• Containers easily lost
Goals• Provide valuable information on patient
compliance to the patient’s physician• Provide a file format to store patient compliance
data. File format should be easily extendable to include new data
• Provide extensible framework for handling patient compliance data
• Provide an application to analyze patient compliance data
Results• File format for storing patient data:
• Created an XML schema which defines a file format for storing data
• This file stores a patient’s prescription regimen as well as compliance data for the regimen
• File format takes advantage of outside tools to allow for easy modification to store more data
Results• Framework for manipulation of compliance data
• C# class library
• Provides ability to create, manipulate, and save compliance data
• Provides methods for performing statistical analysis of the data
Results• Analysis application
• Windows application written in C#• Provides doctor with information based on analysis
of patient compliance
• Allows doctor to set analysis parameters allowing the doctor to get fine-grained information
• Provides ability to generate graphs from compliance data
Demonstration
Future Work• Create application for capturing compliance
data
• Provide further analysis of compliance data
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