e-Health and Healthcare Innovations

Patients in community are given medication aft er they have been treated in hospitals or local clinics. Although a licensed pharmacist will explain type of drugs and dosage when issuing drug, patients may follow them closely or miss out if they have not paid attention to. More oft en, they may not have time to discuss about the side eff ects with the pharmacist. Th erefore, it would be very useful to have a mobile application on health record, drug information, pharmacist information and medical appointment with medication information and health conditions of individuals. Currently, this is a mobile application that is under development in Hong Kong to provide an additional e-health support for patients or users who can get

useful health information, drug information or make a web-conferencing appointment with a pharmacist through the platform in Hong Kong: http://www.ampoule.org.hk/. It will take six to eight months to design and develop the mobile application. A pilot test will be conducted in Spring 2019. It is hoped that the application can off er an ongoing medication advice when a patient or user of the system need diff erent types of treatment or medical service providers. Moreover, a special feature is to connect family members

with the patient such that members will receive short message service (SMS) about medical appointment of the patient. As Hong Kong face the challenge of aging population, the mobile application can serve a better connection between family members and the pharmacy community.