CARE-acterRx

An entertaining, educational app that motivates patients to adhere to their medication and rewards them for doing so.

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Resource:

 

'Smart' Pill Bottles Aren't Always Enough To Help The Medicine Go Down

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/22/538153337/smart-pill-bottles-arent-enough-to-help-the-medicine-go-down

→ It reminds them that they are sick.  Solution: positive reinforcement.

 

Creating the app:

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/first_app

 

https://www.meteor.com/tutorials/blaze/creating-an-app

https://ionicframework.com/



Inspiration:

  • Tamagotchi / neopets (see neopets website for ideas)
  • Talking Tom
  • Selfie button (bluetooth or wifi tracking adherence → must also have option to manually override so that life can happen, and the app can adapt without consequence)
  • Farmville
  • Amazon dash button
  • Smart pill bottle/case (see above article)



  1. Input dosage and schedule into app
  2. Avatar
  3. Record their adherence (buttons and manual input)
  4. Positive reinforcement, reminders, option to send progress to provider
    1. Avatar progressively happier (or worse)
    2. Coupons / ExtraBucks
      1. Chronic or single-course treatment

    3. Farmville / token economy game

      1. This is more for chronic conditions
      2. Decorate avatar?

 

Structure of objects:

 

  1. Personal Info
    1. Name - a string
    2. Email - a string
    3. Cell phone number - ten digit integer
    4. DOB - mm/dd/yyyy
    5. Primary pharmacy - either a string or a choice from a pull down menu

  2. Desired method(s) of notification

    1. Text - no/yes/frequency
    2. Email - no/yes/frequency
    3. Push notifications - no/yes/frequency
    4. Browser extension - no/yes/frequency

  3. Avatar n

    1. Type of avatar - Cat, tree, etc

  4. Medications

    1. Med A
      1. Provider
        1. Name
        2. Contact info for provider - string

      2. Med class - choice from several classes (pre programed into choices of meds) (class 1, class 2, class 3)

        1. Class 1 (antibiotic)
          1. chronic /non-chronic (nonchronic) (this will call the appropriate function managing behavior of avatar)
          2. Detail in avatar (bugs that change number)

        2. Class 2 (diabetes)

          1. chronic/nonchronic (chronic)
          2. Detail in avatar (something with blood sugar)

        3. Class 3 (statin)

          1. chronic/nonchronic (chronic)

      3. Which pharmacy

        1. Choices or a string

      4. Treatment regimen

        1. pill/shot
        2. Frequency of dosage

    2. Med B
    3. Med C

 

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