MEDICATION COMPLIANCE

-Fully automatic compliance and prescription reception
-Clearly graphically summarized compliance data report by fax, e-mail or over the web.
-Flexible solution, zer-cost maintenance

1. The SimPill bottle is filled with medication.
2. Everytime the bottle is opened, a SMS is sent to the VitalCare server.
3. The VitalCare platform analyze the compliance and informs the Caregiver with regular reports, precise statistics and clear graphs.
4. If needed, a reminder is sent by SMS to the patient.
5. The Caregiver can advise the patient and motivate him to adhere to his treatment.

FOR THE PHYSICIAN
-Become aware of non-compliance as it happens rather than retrospectively enabling intervention to prevent non-compliance rather than simply documenting it.
-Decreases the need t-provide interventions to those patients who are adequately compliant. Provides both cost savings and provides patients with improved quality of life.

FOR THE PATIENT
-Is reminded t-take his medication at the right time.
-Confidence that the physician has the right data in his hands.

The VitalCare Service can help in dealing with non-compliance by:
-Identifying the causes
-Quantifying the effects
-Providing simple, cost-effective solutions

FOR HOMECARE ORGANISATIONS
-Optimization of the care process through better information, systematic processes and less traveling.
-Compliance with medication for chronic conditions is estimated at n-better than 50% . Higher levels
of non-compliance are substantial cost drivers for schemes.

FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCES
-Increased compliance - Automated server side processes allow for reminders to be sent to the patient when non-compliance occurs and, should these not be responded to, the server can notify appropriate care givers (family members, community based care givers, or clinic based nurses and doctors) wh-can then provide assistance to the patient to prevent non-compliance.
-Potential cost savings. Using a simple calculation, assuming very modest levels of non-compliance and conservative estimates of only the hospitalization costs it can be shown that the costs of non- compliance per 1,000 patients are significant.