Transcript MyMedMinder A PHR for Your Medications

MyMedMinder
A PHR for Your
Medications
Chris Bassler
Okpe Opessu
Patti Abbott
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
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
MyMedMinder
• Designed as web-based
• Easy to use
• Users can print or save to
computer/memory stick
Process
• Developed competing protoypes
• Took best of each
Low-fidelity
Critique
Prototype Testing
Revision x 2
Final Version
High-Fidelity
Design
• Prototype Testing
– Humbling
– 3 people
– Many issues we had not noticed
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Inconsistency
Help file not helpful
Layout not pleasing to eye
Malfunction of several links
– Revised based on comments from 4 users
Prototypes
Development Process
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Back-end Database
Webtools
Testing
Challenges
– Retrieving information
– Display/Formatting Retrieved Information
Final Usability Testing
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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)
Results?
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Overall Rxn (scale of 1-5)
Appearance of Material (1-5)
Saving & Editing Ease (1-5)
Easy to learn & use (1-5)
Comments:
– Med entry little confusing (terms)
– Need a way to delete “all”
– Unsure about OTC
3.5
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3.25
• DEMO!