Intelligent reminder system of having medicine for chronic patients

Abstract

This research is originally creative research, and already applied patent under authority of Patent Bureau of Taiwan (applying case number: 095121418). People living in modern society are full of much pressure from all kinds of environment everyday and with the great change of dining habit people easily have many chronic diseases. In addition to causing huge damage to individual health, it also cost much society medical resource. Most chronic diseases need special care from nursing staff to remind of when to have the correct medicine. It is naturally proceeding in wards but patients usually forget to punctually have medicine once they leave the hospital and get back home, and this situation neglecting or forgetting to have medicine according to doctors' instruction often causes many un-fortunate deaths of patients resulting in offsetting-less for individual and family. Owing to the speedy development of communication technology and semiconductor, GSM communication module can be integrated and embedded into single chip and let GSM be carried into many products to increase the added-value of products. So how to combine microprocessor with communication module to construct a safe, intelligent, and full-purpose monitoring system for individual to have medicine to solve the problem mentioned above becomes an interesting issue for us. The research category of this study are including a medicine box as the main part of product which includes GSM module, speech-functional DSP, control panel displaying all information for patients, medicine detecting function, and a single chip microprocessor to operate the monitoring function. On the other hand, the interface of the commander terminal PC in nursing center, instructing all information for patients to punctually have medicine, is developed by us programing with VB language. The system function was verified completed successful and could be published for commercials for its creativity and practical purpose. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.