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Medlist Mobile APP
Medlist is a tool that helps medical caregivers track, manage their patients' medication during the treatment.

Prototype

COLLABORATED WITH:

Julia Green, Vikram Bendapudi

CCHMC Research Team

TOOLS USED:

Illustrator, Axure RP

TIME:

Jan. 2017 - April 2017

Background

CHALLENGE

The children with complex chronic conditions usually need to take dozen of different medications via multiple routes during the treatment. So it is quite possible to forget or make mistakes, which sometimes is dangers. A well-organized medication administration tool can help manage the medication easier and prevent medication errors.

A Caregiver's Missions on Medication:

Reading the label and following the instructions for each medication
Watching for side-effects, such as confusion or dizziness, and calling the doctor or home care nurse with any changes in the patient’s condition
Reminding the patient to take the medications at the right time and in the right dose
Help patients to take medication through different route, like oral, G-tube and subcutaneous.
Add notes, and track patients' conditions.

The Tasks of the Interaction

Add medication
Add notes (Note, Measurement)
Store the medication information.
Remind user to take the medication.
Direct user to do certain tasks.
Display the information: how to give medicine, name of the medication...

An Example of Medication List

The stuff of CCHMC provided us a medication list of a young chronic patient. The list includes the name, taking time, frequency and other instructions of each medication. There are nine medicines on the list with three different given route: oral, gastrostomy tube(G-tube) and subcutaneous.