teamdf14/meddoser

Visualized medication plan on a Raspberry Pi 3

MedDoser

The MedDoser is a RaspberryPi 3 Model B equipped with a touchscreen and some other components and helps patients to remember to take their medications.

It offers acoustic and visual memory functions and provides a history that gives the opportunity to track the ingestions to the exact day and time. The information of the respective medication is based on the doctor-prescribed medication plan on sheet of paper, whose barcode can be scanned. The read data is provided in a user interface that is operated exclusively with the finger. The user also has the option to manually adjust reminder times for each ingestion time of the day.

Getting Started (Prerequisit)

The prerequisite is that you have the MedDoser, consisting of a RaspberryPi 3, a 7 inch touchscreen, a real-time-clock and a speaker, prepared in front of you.

If you want to know how to plug together these components, follow the instructions described on one of the two websites or in the written elaboration (See below under "Further Information").

You just want to check out how the software works and have no hardware available? No Problem, just run the source code on your Windows environment!

Please note that we are using a separate SQLite dummy database that stores drug data, because the license of the official drug database is missing at the moment, but may be available in future releases.

Dependencies

In order for the project to run correctly, additional projects must be added as modules into the main project. Please read the READMEs of the respective repositories in order to know what they do. Anyway, include them into your IDE:

• JavaLogger - Github
• JavaUtil - Github
• UKF2FHIRParser - Github

Learn here how to set up a project that consists of several repositories in IntelliJ IDEA.

Built With

• Maven - Dependency Management
• IntelliJ - Development environment
• JDK 1.8 - Java SE Development Kit 8

Authors

• Sebastian Büchler - Github - Website
• Stefan Kuppelwieser - Github - Website

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Further information

• eHealth @RCBE Regensburg (OTH Regensburg) - Website
• sbuechler.de - Website
• Report - Download (pdf) .

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

meddoser's Issues

Improve loading time

When the MedDoser was turned off for a longer time (e.g. three weeks), entries are created within the persistence file Persistence_MedDoser.xml for each missed day.
When the device gets turned on again for the first time, the UI is acting remarkable slower than intended.

The probably reason for this behaviour is

1. The large number of entries must be read from the persistence file (once) and handled in the background (many string comparisons), then saved in a data structure in the RAM.
2. Searching the data structure in the RAM

Probably solution: Store all the data in an SQLite database instead of an XML file, because the columns of the database are already assigned to datatypes.