PharmActa: Personalized pharmaceutical care eHealth platform for patients and pharmacists

Publication date: Available online 2 November 2019Source: Journal of Biomedical InformaticsAuthor(s): Marios Spanakis, Stelios Sfakianakis, George Kallergis, Emmanouil G. Spanakis, Vangelis SakkalisAbstractCommunity pharmacists are critically placed in the patient care chain being an extended frontline within primary healthcare networks across Europe. They are trained to ensure safe and effective medication use, a crucial and responsible role, extending beyond the common misconception limited to just providing timely access to medicines for the population. Technology-wise, eHealth being committed to an effective, networked, patient-centered and accessible healthcare would prove a real asset in this direction by achieving improved therapy adherence with better outcomes and direct contribution to a cost-effective healthcare system. In this work, we present PharmActa, a personalized eHealth platform that addresses key features of pharmaceutical care and enhances communication of pharmacists with patients for optimizing pharmacotherapy. PharmActa empowers patients by providing pharmaceutical care services, such as drug interactions tools, reminders for assisting adhesion and compliance, information regarding adverse drug reactions, as well as pharmacovigilance along with related tools for healthcare management. In addition, it allows the pharmacists to review the medication history in order to provide personalized pharmaceutical care services; thus enhancing their role as healthc...
Source: Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research