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ArticleBMC medicine2017

eHealth in the future of medications management: personalisation, monitoring and adherence.

Josip Car, Woan Shin Tan, Zhilian Huang, Peter Sloot, Bryony Dean Franklin

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Article in BMC medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Josip CarCentre for Population Health Sciences, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, 3 Fusionopolis Link, #06-13, Nexus@One-North, South tower, Singapore, 138543, Singapore. josip.car@ntu.edu.sg.ORCID 0000-0001-8969-371X
Woan Shin TanCentre for Population Health Sciences, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, 3 Fusionopolis Link, #06-13, Nexus@One-North, South tower, Singapore, 138543, Singapore.
Zhilian HuangCentre for Population Health Sciences, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, 3 Fusionopolis Link, #06-13, Nexus@One-North, South tower, Singapore, 138543, Singapore.
Peter SlootComputational Science Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Bryony Dean FranklinResearch Department of Practice and Policy, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundGlobally, healthcare systems face major challenges with medicines management and medication adherence. Medication adherence determines medication effectiveness and can be the single most effective intervention for improving health outcomes. In anticipation of growth in eHealth interventions worldwide, we explore the role of eHealth in the patients' medicines management journey in primary care, focusing on personalisation and intelligent monitoring for greater adherence. DISCUSSION: eHealth offers opportunities to transform every step of the patient's medicines management journey. From booking appointments, consultation with a healthcare professional, decision-making, medication dispensing, carer support, information acquisition and monitoring, to learning about medicines and their management in daily life. It has the potential to support personalisation and monitoring and thus lead to better adherence. For some of these dimensions, such as supporting decision-making and providing reminders and prompts, evidence is stronger, but for many others more rigorous research is urgently needed.

conclusionsGiven the potential benefits and barriers to eHealth in medicines management, a fine balance needs to be established between evidence-based integration of technologies and constructive experimentation that could lead to a game-changing breakthrough. A concerted, transdisciplinary approach adapted to different contexts, including low- and middle-income contries is required to realise the benefits of eHealth at scale.

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Medication AdherenceHumansMedication Therapy ManagementPrecision MedicineTelemedicineAppsDrug monitoringeHealthInformation communication technologyMedication adherenceMedication therapy managementmHealthText message

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PMID28376771
PMCPMC5381075

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