Improving Medical Adherence using Smart Medicine Cabinet Monitoring System

Improving Medical Adherence using Smart Medicine Cabinet Monitoring System

Received Aug 13, 2017 Revised Nov 11, 2017 Accepted Nov 27, 2017 Patients at home may forget to take their medicines on time, miss doses or even take overdoses. This particularly applies to the elderly at home. Hence, this paper presents a monitoring system to improve the medical adherence which is based on Internet of Things (IoT) concept known as smart medicine cabinet monitoring system. The ...

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