VP59 the MedicineWise App: Extended Applications Beyond Medicine Management

IntroductionThe MedicineWise app is a free consumer health and medicine management app developed by NPS MedicineWise. With 107,000+ downloads and 78,000+ active sessions per month, the MedicineWise app's core functions include: keeping track current medicines lists, medicine dose reminders and recording health conditions, allergies, test results and other health information. Recent enhancements also enabled the app to deliver featured health- and medicine-related content to users based on their medicines and/or health conditions. The goal is to maximise the MedicineWise app's capabilities by personalizing to users’ needs and combining with health professional interventions when needed, to encourage better delivery of health and medicines information and improve medication adherence and health outcomes.MethodsA number of personalized medicines management service offerings were created by combining a technology solution using the MedicineWise app (including the app's core functions as well as added targeted content delivery capability) with a humanistic solution (a health professional-mediated phone-based coaching service). MedicineWise app features were developed iteratively using a human-centred design approach. Consumers were involved in the design, prototyping and testing stages before the features moved to technical-build stage.ResultsThree use-cases will be presented to demonstrate how the MedicineWise app was used to provide personalized medicines management service offerings. These include: (1) curating relevant content and delivering push notifications to users for health conditions including asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis; (2) providing a triaged medication adherence support program with escalating levels of intervention for heart failure patients; and (3) collecting user-reported medication usage data and data monitoring by health professionals to provide support for heart failure patients.ConclusionsThe utility of MedicineWise app can be extended to provide personalized medicines management service offerings in the consumer health care space.