Remia

Inspiration

It is important not to skip or miss a dose of your medication, missing a dose of medicine would lead to missing the best window time for treatment or failing the treatment.

From a study, it is known that over 80% of patients had missed a dose of medicine. The outbreak of Covid-19 has made patient care more challenging - there is an increase in demand for remote outpatient solutions and caregivers may not be able to get in touch with their patients due to the pandemic.

Many medication reminder apps help to tackle this problem by sending regular notifications to users. However, not everyone has the access to the internet or smart devices.

To tackle the digital divide, we are building a chatbot to send medication reminders via programmed phone calls.

What it does

Web app for registration

Patients' doctor/ family members/ caregiver can help patients to sign up for phone medication reminders by inputting their name for verification, contact, and medication information
They will be asked to verify the phone numbers by inputting a 6-digit code

Phone reminders

Chatbot will call the patient at preferred times indicated in the web app form and verify the identity of patients by asking their name and date of birth
When a matched record is found, the bot will remind the patient to take medicine, including the name of medicine and dosage
If patients are busy at that moment, the snooze function will be triggered and the bot will call again later