A Trial for a Personalized Medication Management Platform to Improve Medication Adherence

Summary

Taiwan has attracted much attention for its National Health Insurance (NHI) and healthcare system around the world with many countries in Europe and the United States using it as a benchmark. However, increasing medication costs over the past two years account for more than 25% of total expenditure, surpassing every OECD member and mounting increasing pressure on the NHI. Nevertheless, patient medication adherence is relatively low. Thus, the investigators assessed the effectiveness of a personalized medication management system for improving the medication adherence for patients, in order to save long term medication costs.

Conditions

• Patients Take Medicine

Interventions

DEVICE

Personalized Medication Management Platform for SMS Reminder

The Personalized Medication Management Platform was developed by investigators that integrated with Hospital Information System (HIS) to collect the prescription information of patients and automatically send SMS to remind

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• China Medical University, Taiwan

  collaborator OTHER

• Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  collaborator OTHER

• National Chung Cheng University

  collaborator OTHER

• National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu City, Taiwan

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• National Taiwan University

  collaborator OTHER

• Hwa Hsia Institute of Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Taipei Medical University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Yu-Chuan Li, MD., PhD · Taipei Medical University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

20 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2010-01-31

Primary Completion

2012-07-31

Completion

2012-11-30