MyMedMinder A PHR for Your Medications

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MyMedMinderA PHR for Your Medications

• Chris Bassler
• Okpe Opessu
• Patti Abbott

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Problem

• Medication error polypharmacy are critical
  issues in healthcare
• A more informed patient is a better patient
• Patients and their caregivers must be good
  historians
• Memory fails particularly during stress
• Results in errors, waste, harm

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Helping Patients Manage Meds

• PHR (personal health record)
• Owned by the patient
• Managed by the patient (with help if necessary)
• Why?
• Help patients and caregivers keep better records
• Help patients and caregivers to be more active in
  their healthcare

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MyMedMinder

• Designed as web-based
• Easy to use
• Users can print or save to computer/memory stick

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Process

• Developed competing protoypes
• Took best of each
• Low-fidelity Critique High-Fidelity

Prototype Testing
Revision x 2
Final Version
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Design

• Prototype Testing
• Humbling
• 3 people
• Many issues we had not noticed
• Inconsistency
• Help file not helpful
• Layout not pleasing to eye
• Malfunction of several links
• Revised based on comments from 4 users

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Prototypes
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Development Process

• Back-end Database
• Webtools
• Testing
• Challenges
• Retrieving information
• Display/Formatting Retrieved Information

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Final Usability Testing

• Subjects 6 (4 Male 2 Female)
• Age range 24 79
• Average of Meds 3
• Computer Experience 4 months to 8 years
• Procedure
• Given 3 example labels from Rx bottles and asked
  to enter
• Post-test evaluation tool (based on QUIS)

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Results?

• Overall Rxn (scale of 1-5) 3.5
• Appearance of Material (1-5) 3
• Saving Editing Ease (1-5) 3
• Easy to learn use (1-5) 3.25
• Comments
• Med entry little confusing (terms)
• Need a way to delete all
• Unsure about OTC

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• DEMO!