A significant drawback of communications between patients and health professionals is their restriction to face-to-face encounters within healthcare institutions. This limits the support health professionals can provide to ensure patient adherence, which is a significant contributor to therapeutic outcome and overall healthcare expenses. Pharmacist-patient health information systems (PPHIS) have the potential to address existing non-adherence behaviors by enabling pharmacist-patient communication over the time of therapy. Due to the lack of prior research, design principles for PPHIS are derived from the information-, motivation-, and strategy model [4] and feedback from pharmacists in 21 Swiss pharmacies. To demonstrate the feasibility of the design principles, we implement and preliminarily evaluate a PPHIS.
Language
English
Keywords
Pharmacist-Patient Health Information System
Design Principles
Mobile Information System
Prototype
Adherence
Communication.
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
Publisher
Springer
Publisher place
Berlin, Heidelberg
Volume
LNCS 7939
Start page
519
End page
526
Pages
8
Event Title
8th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2013)
