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REVIEW ON MOBILE APPLICATION FOR MEDICINE REMINDER

Ms. S. A. Patil*1, Ms. Monika Bhanuse*2, Ms. Snehal Mali*3, Ms. Vishaka Swami*4
*1Assistance Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Sharad Institute of Technology Polytechnic,
Yadrav, Maharashtra, India.
*2,3,4Diploma Student, Department of Computer Engineering, Sharad Institute of Technology Polytechnic, Yadrav,
Maharashtra, India.
ABSTRACT
Nowadays, mobiles have been reached everywhere and at every home. As a result, today people are using lot
many mobile applications to make their day to day life easier. Our review paper main objective is to the
development of a mobile application to provide an effective health care system. We are going to develop an
android based mobile application in which we have implemented an automatic alarm ringing system. With the
help of our application Patients need not to remember their medicine dosage timings as they can set an alarm to
remind their medicines. This mobile application will be helping to those people who are busy in their day to day
life or old age people who forget which medicine is to be taken and when. We are going to make a system which
is free of cost, time-saving and supports medication adherence without any extra hardware devices.
Keywords: Android, Automatic alarm, Reminder system, Notification System, Medicine scheduler.
I. INTRODUCTION
Health care is very essentials for human being. Nowadays, all people have a busy hectic schedule. Today’s life is
full of responsibilities, stress etc. So, people have different types diseases and it is our duty to make themselves
fit and healthy. Even the old age people who generally stay home or with their servants find it difficult to
remember which medicine is to be taken and when. In our everyday life, it is difficult for a person to remind
their daily intake of medicines. Today every person has mobiles in hand. Our life is totally dependent on gadgets
especially mobiles. With this, we get an opportunity to use technology in a better way so that we can help our
society to keep them healthy. It plays an important part in our everyday life and helps us staying healthy. We are
developing an Android application, whose objective is to remind the patients of their dosage timings through
Alarm Ringing system so that they can stay healthy all the time. With the alarm ringing system, they may
remember which medicine is to be taken. This mobile application main focus on the people who forget to take
medicines on time. It allows users to set an alarm along with the date and time which will allow them to set
alarm for multiple medicines at different time intervals.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Today we know that the use and the demand of Mobile Application Development are increasing and it makes
inspiration to create user friendly and effective variety of application. There are different types of concepts,
ideas & platforms developed in medication systems. Now a days, uses of healthcare application is growing day
by day, but there are many issues related to their application. We are going to develop a mobile application for
medicine reminder. We are developing a Android- based application in which We have develop a user interface
for medicine scheduler & notification system for reminding users about their medicine type & time as per the
users medicine details & an automatic alarm ringing...as Medical Reminder Systems & also, we are developing a
notification system ... in which a message will be sent to the users, users can go with Notification through
notification Mode with email or message.
... On the cost effectiveness of pharmaceuticals: a review of the Health Economics. ”.
We have discussed with our group about Medicine reminder pro application. Which is a free application & allow
users up to 15 reminders only We are developing mobile Application that tries to avoid major errors related to
previous medicine reminder system
III. METHODOLOGY
We are going to develop Android application for patients to remind medicines and health care. In this
application there are two important modules. First is set alarm and second is get notification module.
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In this application, first patient will get registration form. In that form patient need to enter name, Mobile
number, email id, gender and password.
But, patient need to understand that correct mobile number, email id and alphanumeric password should enter.
After filling this information patient need to click on register button. All the information will be saved in the
database.
After registration patient will get login screen. Patient can login with email/mobile no. and password provided
in registration form.
After registration patient will have to set alarm:-
Set Alarm module-
In this module, there is calendar to select date and also there is time to set time and then there is textbox to add
medicines. Patient can select specific period in calendar and can set time, on that date and time patient can add
medicine name and description. And then patient need to select mode (email/mobile notification). If patient
select mobile notification then patient can select ringtone from patient’s device. And if patient select email then
patient can get notification by email.
After set alarm module patient will get notification by email/mobile notification.
Get Notification module:
After set alarm then patient will get the notification. If patient selected mobile notification then system will send
this notification into patient’s device. Again if a user selected the notification in email form, patient will get
Notification through Email Mode. And that notification contains medicine name and medicine details.
Using this application patient can read health care articles, posts and tips.
Many systems need special hardware devices to remind the patient’s medicine in their timings. Buying new
hardware devices cause costly and money consuming.
That’s why, It is important to make android application. An attempt has been made to implement an application
which is economical, easily accessible and improves medication adherence.
Block Diagram:

Registration Medication remainder and

form to add health care
patient

Patient Health care

Login articles and
tips

Set Medication
medicine
adherence
alarm

Patient
notification
and alarm

Fig 1: Block diagram of Medicine Remainder application.

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IV. ADVANTAGES
1. It provides information regarding the medicine timings.
2. Patients can get a fair idea about Healthcare and can also get health tips from this application.
3. This system mainly focuses on improving rate of attendance on healthcare appointments.
4. The personal email notification and alarm notifications are strong aspects to get users attention.
5. It is an easy implementation as it is less expensive, reliable, scalable, accessible to anyone having android
smartphone’s, and does not require any addition hardware, packaging or separate device.
V. DISADVANTAGES
1. It doesn’t encourage to cancellation or rescheduling in patient who cannot attend or who no longer wish
to attend.
2. Generally, one-third of patients give incorrect contact details. This may put at a specific disadvantage to
the patient registering.
3. Providing wrong phone number can result in the SMS reaching someone other than the patient.
VI. CONCLUSION
There are different types of Medication Reminder Systems have been developed on different concept &
platforms. These all systems require special hardware devices to remind the patients about the medicine details
& timings. Purchasing new hardware devices as medicine remainder devices are very costly and is very money
consuming. So we have been developing a system which is economical, easily accessible and improves
medication adherence. Medication non-adherence reduces the effectiveness of a treatment and imposes financial
losses on health care systems. With the help of our application The patients will get the schedule of medicine
details & in-take time with medicine description, our notification system sends notification through message or
email, we have also provided a automatic alarm ringing system. This provides easy searching facility to the users
and saves the time.
We have planned to focus on improving the overall performance of the system. Some more ways to achieve
medication adherence will be focused.
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