MISS: Medicine Information Support System in the smart home environment

Abstract

The Smart Home uses different technology to facilitate the lives of the resident and is especially useful for assisting the elderly and persons with special needs. One area where this population would benefit is managing their prescribed medications. This paper presents the Medicine Information Support System (MISS) which integrates the patient's information to assist with the prescriptions management. The system checks for conflicting medicines, health conditions and food items. The data generated is used to feed other subsystems in the Smart Home such as the reminder and medicine inventory. A formal model is introduced for conflicts checking. The three main entities: doctor, pharmacy and Smart Home use this model to detect their particular set of conflicts which ensures that conflicts involving the entire context will eventually be detected. The design uses this model as its basis for conflict checking. The prototyped implementation of the entire system is based on Java. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.