Aplicación móvil agenda recordatorio para la gestión de toma de medicamentos (Medicaretrack)

Abstract

The main objective of this project has been the development of an application for mobile devices with Android 8.0("Oreo") operating system. The application that was developed in this project was named "Medicaretrack", Medicaretrack is an application for scheduling medications, its target population are the elderly because this population is diagnosed as the most prone to present polypharmacy. Polypharmacy is the simultaneous or excessive use of several medications, for example, many drugs or an excessive dose (4). The Medicaretrack application has 8 main functionalities, which are: • Register users who want to use the application. • Allow the entry of users previously registered in the application. • Display and update the user's information. • Allows the user to add one or multiple medications to the application, and organizes this information in a simple and intuitive way to facilitate the use of the application by the target population. • Displays and allows updating the user's medication information. • Implement scheduled notifications in order to provide the option of activating reminders for the medications selected by the user. • Gives the option to send an e-mail to a guardian to validate the information provided by the user. • The application allows the user to modify the font size of the components.