Research project The aim of the project is to develop a smart personalised medication assistant to promote safe and effective management of medicines.
This assistant will support healthcare professionals, reducing the time spent, for example, comparing medicine names or finding other medicines with the same active substances as the original medicine, known as generics. This will allow staff to spend more time on patient care. This contributes to the development of future healthcare. From society's perspective, the project aims to reduce costs and increase sustainability and resource efficiency in healthcare.
This project contributes to enhance safe and resource-effective handling of medication for patients and health professionals. To this end, the project aims to design and develop a smart mixed reality support system for professional medication management.
Due to the changing demographic structure of the population in many countries, the proportion as well as the number of people with care needs has rapidly increased and will continue to do so. This development brings an increased demand for provision of new, sustainable and resource-effective healthcare methods. A smart medication assistant to support and facilitate health professionals’ generic medication management, both in clinical work and for education purposes, contributes to the development of future healthcare in this desired direction.
From a health professionals’ perspective, needing to spend less time comparing medication names nurses can spend more time with patients. When medication names on the prescribed medication list are not the same as names on the actual medication in the cabinet/medicine room, it requires time-consuming multi-factor control procedures to prepare medications for patients. Even a seemingly simple task like dispensing weekly pills in a pillbox requires far more time when several of the medication names are substituted. Examples from clinical reality in Region Västerbotten 2024 show that having 18 out of 20 medicine names substituted on one patient's medication list is not an exceptional case.
From society & health care system perspective, the project aims to have a long-term contribution to reducing costs, promoting sustainability and increase resource efficiency in health care.
