Integrating hospital medical care data with pharmaceutical education materials for diabetes self management.
Diabetic patients need long-term treatment and follow-up exams as well as appropriate self-care pharmaceutical education to get the disease under control and to prevent possible complications. Pharmaceutical treatment plays an essential role in diabetes. If patients don't understand the medicines and dosages they take, their blood glucose control may be affected. In addition, the possibility of developing hypoglycemia may be increased. In this paper, we enhance the POEM system, previously developed for diabetic patient education, by providing diabetic patients' pharmaceutical education. The new system integrates both diabetic patients' pharmaceutical education information and medical care information to provide them with more comprehensive personalized medication information so that they can access the on-line system afterwards. It also strengthens patients' understanding of pharmaceutical functions, side-effects and relevant knowledge thus increasing patients' adherence of medication orders and having better control in their blood glucose levels.
Wu
Shwu-Jiuan
SJ
Graduate Institute of Medical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yeh
Yu-Ting
YT
Li
Chun-Chuan
CC
Chiu
Yuan-Ting
YT
Huang
Juei-Fen
JF
Liu
Chien-Tsai
CT
D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D012648:Self Care; D013624:Taiwan