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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

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MyMedMinder A PHR for Your Medications

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  1. MyMedMinderA PHR for Your Medications Chris Bassler Okpe Opessu Patti Abbott

  2. 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

  3. 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

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

  5. Process • Developed competing protoypes • Took best of each Low-fidelity Critique High-Fidelity Prototype Testing Revision x 2 Final Version

  6. 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

  7. Prototypes

  8. Development Process • Back-end Database • Webtools • Testing • Challenges • Retrieving information • Display/Formatting Retrieved Information

  9. 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)

  10. 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

  11. DEMO!

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