1. DOCUMENTATION
TEAM NAME:
S.M.S. -> Smart Medical Solutions (RightMed - 2).
MENTOR NAME:
Dr. Anshuman Das
Forum Shah.
TEAM MEMBERS:
Sr
.No.
Name Education Email Id Mob. No.
1 Dr. K.
Prakash
MBBS, Masters in Medical
Science and Technology, IIT
Kharagpur.
prakash2help
@gmail.com
(91)
9962895745
2 Kopal
Saxena
MBA - WE School, Mumbai. kopalsaxena.we
@gmail.com
(91)
9977992828
3 Poulami
Chatterjee
MBA - WE School, Mumbai. poulami.chatterjee
@gmail.com
(91)
9769659846
4 Dr. Shloka
B.
MBBS, Dentist. shloka8
@gmail.com
(91)
9763667839
5 Aditya
Pappu
Final Year - Electronics
Engineering – K.J. Somaiya
College of Engineering, Mumbai.
adityaishwar1994
@gmail.com
(91)
7738023147
INDEX:
1. Introduction
2. Challenges
3. Survey
4. Solutions
5. Conclusion
6. Timeline
7. References
1. INTRODUCTION
Antibiotics Misuse is one of the most chronic problem that societies are desperately trying to
tackle today. Antibiotics Misuse leads drug resistance a common example of which is the Multi-
Drug Resistant (MDR)- Resistant to first-line drugs and the Extremely Drug Resistant -
Resistant to Second line Drugs (XDR) Tuberculosis.
2. Looking at the problem of antibiotic resistance in scope, some relevant numbers backing our
approach are
70,000 multidrug resistant cases every year in India
10 Million Death worldwide by 2050
58,000 infant deaths, annually in India
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
To eliminate the misuse of antibiotics.
The intention of the project is to minimize and eventually eliminate the underuse and overuse of
antibiotics by engineering innovative solutions centering on more efficient Diagnostic tools for
the doctors and increased compliance and awareness on the side of the patients.
2. CHALLENGES
Tackling the complex problem statement of Antibiotic Resistance in context, requires an
approach addressed towards the challenge of Antibiotic misuse and patient non-compliance to
medication.
The various factors contributing towards antibiotic abuse and resistance are as follows
• Poor patient compliance
• Drugs being ineffective
• Inappropriate/Higher antibiotic drug prescription on follow up
• Antibiotic resistance
Poor patient compliance at the grassroots remains the major challenge when we refined our
approach at a bottoms up level.
We had views from both set of doctors, those who opined that we cannot beat poor
patient compliance and the patient can hardly be trusted to follow up. But we chose to believe in
the group of doctors who felt the strong need to monitor the patient once he steps out of the
clinic.
3. SURVEY
We went for survey out in the fields and got the inputs across the socio-demographic segment.
The survey conducted targeted on all the problem that can be associated with the problem. The
key stakeholders that were surveyed were Doctors and Patients of both the extremities of socio-
economic demographic low as well as high.
We got to know that almost 100% of doctor feel the need of a helping device for diagnostics.
Doctors also agreed that almost 63% patients self-medicate themselves. Almost 62.5% patients
self-medicate themselves. 70.2% patients agreed that they are not aware of the adverse effects
of SELF MEDICATION. 100% patients are really eager for a new device they would be provided
with for dealing with the self-compliance issue.
4. SOLUTIONS
So, by the stats we get to know that there is a problem that needs attention
3. There are organizations like IIMAR which are working for this purpose by educating doctors.
There are technological solutions like sense cap, glow cap, pill pack etc
But there are many problems associated with these technological solutions.
So the solution we came up with targets our two stakeholders i.e., patients and doctors
For patients it targets on compliance and awareness factor.
For doctor it targets on education of doctors
So for patient awareness gamification is one of the method used for awareness.
SYSTEM:
What?
A Web App that calculates, reports and archives the compliance of the patient in a numeric
format.
How?
1. Clinic
1. Preliminary Patient data record into database hosted by a 3-rd party server.
2. Doctor’s prescription stored in the database.
3. Ideal dosage sequence extracted from doctor’s prescription and programmed into the
Compliance Tracker (CT) / Pill Tracker.
2. Pharmacy
1. List of Medicines procured from Pharmacy receipt.
2. Both, doctor’s and pharmacist's list compared.
3. If different, then doctor alerted. Else CT activated.
3. Patient Home
1. Patient gets reminder to take pill.
2. CT ensures only compartment relating to pill to be taken glows.
3. Patient opens CT.
4. Act of opening CT recorded as a timestamp.
5. Similarly sequence of timestamps recorded whenever patient opens CT for taking a pill.
4. Compliance Tracker*
Features:
1. Reminds patients to take pill.
2. No internet required.
3. Tracks patient compliance
4. Cost-effective.
5. Portable
6. Minimalistic design.
7. Zero extra effort from patient’s side.
*Schematic and block by block description in Google Drive Folder. Link in
References Section.
5. Back to the Clinic
1. Web App compare Doctor’s Sequence and Patient’s Sequence.
2. Compliance factor calculated.
Incentives:
1. Doctor:
4. Net Clinic Compliance Factor determines Doctor’s visibility on Digital Platform
2. Patient:
Higher Patient Compliance Factor rewarded via higher Medical Fees Discounts.
.
5. CONCLUSION
SWOT Analysis
Strength
First ever integrated system with innovative technique for
awareness
Weakness
Not integrating Pharmacy
efficiently
Opportunity
Integration with government hospital chains
Threat
Other Competitors
Mission statement
To be implemented across all the Government hospital & small & medium private
hospitals.
Project Plan
For setting a pilot study in 10 Hospital with associated pharmacy our stepwise approach
1st
step – Search for funding agency
2nd
Step – Develop a web app
3rd
step- Develop cost-effective pill box
4th
step –Market research and deployment of this product in market
5th
step – Implementation of changes according to the feedback
Impact?
58000 Infants death annually in India
70,000 multidrug resistant cases in India
1.077 million Population of Nashik will be impacted by safe antibiotic usage.
5. 6. TIMELINE:
DAY NO.. DATE WORK
0 23rd Jan 2016: Saturday Dr.Shirish Ghan
Introduction
1 24th Jan 2016 : Sunday Dr. Pramod Shinde
Data Statistics Assimilation.
2 25th Jan 2016 : Monday Field survey 1 : Gole Colony
Panel 1
Re-evaluation of challenge.
3 26th Jan 2016: Tuesday Field Survey 2
In-house data survey
Dr. Shirish Ghan.
4 27th Jan 2016 : Wednesday Chall 1 storming.
Field Survey 3 - Rural Hospital,
Dr. Swati Karkare.
5 28th Jan 2016 : Thursday Challenge 3 storming.
Challenge 2 storming.
3 paper preparation,
Field survey 3.
IIMAR Doctors
6 29th Jan 2016 : Friday Final presentation.
Documentation.
7. REFERENCES
Google Doc Link :
https://goo.gl/zewjjw
Google Drive Link :
https://goo.gl/1GHixz