TY - JOUR
T1 - Cup-shaped medication recording device for taking intraoral pictures
AU - Ishii, Kenji
AU - Kawai, Yoko
AU - Tsuruoka, Noriko
AU - Fuse, Takahiro
AU - Obara, Taku
AU - Matsunaga, Tadao
AU - Imai, Yutaka
AU - Haga, Yoichi
PY - 2015/2/1
Y1 - 2015/2/1
N2 - To improve the reliability of medication record keeping, we have developed a cup-shaped medication recording device and system for taking intraoral pictures of pills. This device has a camera, a memory card with a wireless transmitter, a capacitance sensor, a processing unit, and a rechargeable battery in the cup. When the capacitance sensor used as the trigger switch detects water level change, the camera starts shooting and takes some intraoral pictures. Waterproofing is achieved by the use of wireless data transmission and wireless battery recharging to enable washability of the cup. In the first experiment, ten trials in one subject were conducted. There were 2.6±0.7 pictures per an action of taking pill. The pill was successfully photographed in all trials. Thirteen subjects participated in a second experiment. Intraoral pictures of pills were taken and sent to a PC or a server wirelessly in all subjects. These results show that this device can be expected to reliably record medication, to improve patient adherence, and reduction of medical labor.
AB - To improve the reliability of medication record keeping, we have developed a cup-shaped medication recording device and system for taking intraoral pictures of pills. This device has a camera, a memory card with a wireless transmitter, a capacitance sensor, a processing unit, and a rechargeable battery in the cup. When the capacitance sensor used as the trigger switch detects water level change, the camera starts shooting and takes some intraoral pictures. Waterproofing is achieved by the use of wireless data transmission and wireless battery recharging to enable washability of the cup. In the first experiment, ten trials in one subject were conducted. There were 2.6±0.7 pictures per an action of taking pill. The pill was successfully photographed in all trials. Thirteen subjects participated in a second experiment. Intraoral pictures of pills were taken and sent to a PC or a server wirelessly in all subjects. These results show that this device can be expected to reliably record medication, to improve patient adherence, and reduction of medical labor.
KW - Cup-shaped device
KW - Intraoral picture
KW - Medication adherence
KW - Medication recording
KW - Wireless
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U2 - 10.1541/ieejeiss.135.197
DO - 10.1541/ieejeiss.135.197
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84922262910
SN - 0385-4221
VL - 135
SP - 197
EP - 203
JO - IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems
JF - IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems
IS - 2
ER -