Digital Medicine Assistant-Health Application for Expiry Tracking

Abstract

Medicines play an important part in each and everyone's life where some of them relieve us from diseases, disorders or pains and some of them are very essential lifesaving ones. Some of them are rarely available and need to be priorly ordered in remote places and also some are very ex-pensive. One of the most common problems is that we all tend to miss the expiry of our medicines or sometimes the strips get ripped off and the information related to the tablet or the medicine becomes unavailable. Most of us spend our time writing down the same in notepads and waste time in labelling the medicines. For maintaining appropriate dosage infor-mation of the medicines, many try to organize their prescriptions but there are always chances of losing them. Notepads, keynotes and alarm reminders may be an easy solution that strikes to us at the first thought but is not efficient. There is no way of getting reminded about the expiry of any of the medi-cines that's written in a notepad. Many of the conventional apps provide a feature to get reminded about the medicines to be taken daily or provide a one-time notification for the expiry of the medicines that are in its entry which the users may clear off from the mobile's notification panel as a result of having a busy day. Also, most available applications provide an expiry tracking feature more in general than only for medicines. This paper is about an application that provides more convenient and effective solution to the problem and to the best of our knowledge is the first application designed to remind its user through reminder notifications about the expired and about to expire medicines.