Supporting the use of medicines with smart dispensers
For AstraZeneca we developed smart medication dispensers with IoT. The objective: (better) monitoring of medicine use by patients and improving adherence.
Our IoT solution
We developed an IoT solution with a smart medication dispenser. The dispenser monitors the intake behavior of patients remotely. The real time information that is collected by the dispenser, makes it possible for healthcare professionals to guide and support patients more specifically by working from the existing behavior towards a better intake pattern.
The result is our smart dispenser, Sensemedic, that both patients and healthcare professionals benefit from.
Sensemedic: the smart dispenser
With Sensemedic the adherence of each patient can be determined accurately. This allows healthcare professionals to guide and support patients more specifically: working from the existing behavior towards a better intake pattern.
Smart reminding
With Sensemedic it is possible to remind patients to take their medicines with methods that use the real time measuring data. Thus, a patient can be reminded with a text message, whereby the text message is only sent when a patient actually forgets to take his or her medicine. This method has proven to be highly effective.
Visit the Sensemedic website for more information.
Increased adherence and lower healthcare costs
There are three factors that lead to an increased adherence where people recover better and faster: A better understanding in behaviors, better supervision and automatic reminders. This also leads to lower healthcare costs.
Ground-breaking
- Monitoring the use of medicines by patients remotely
- Accurate insight into using medicines
- SMS messages to remind patients to take their medicine and it is only sent when intake is forgotten
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With Sensemedic the adherence of each patient can be determined accurately.
Sensemedic Smart
We implement IoT solutions for:
We also work with Philips, Bristol-Myers Squibb , Boehringer Ingelheim, GGD Gelderland Midden, GGD Utrecht, Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis, Rode Kruis, Novartis, LUMC, Haga Ziekenhuis, Albert Schweitzer Ziekenhuis, SEIN (Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland), Queen Mary University, AZ Dalmiaan, CHRU Tours, University of Zurich (UZH), SICS (Swedish Institute of Computer Science), Czech Technical University Prague en VU (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
