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The Influence of Mobile Health Adoption on Medication Adherence on Population Health: Mobile Health Adoption on Medication Adherence
Abstract
The fields of population health include health outcomes, patterns of health determinants, and policies interventions. Health is a national and international priority and implementation of mHealth can add a new level of solution to current challenges facing healthcare. The goal of this study is to explore the influence of mobile health adoption on medication adherence. A two-month intervention to monitor patients with poorly controlled diabetes was developed by the researcher diabetic patients that attend two private hospitals in western part of Nigeria. The researcher invented a smart pill container that automatically uploaded its data to the cloud. The pillbox helped patients organize their medications while providing patient-facing reminders and provider-centered feedback on medication adherence patterns. Average medication adherence was consistently above 80%, and even briefly hit 90% during one week of the study. The intervention showed an improvement in the medication adherence among the participants.
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