Author : Dr. Ankur Joshi 1
Date of Publication :7th March 2017
Abstract: Medication adherence is both vital and difficult to achieve in case of non –communicable diseases. The challenges arise because of the requirement of behavioural monitoring and continuous scrutiny of the process. This prerequisite to ensure adherence may be addressed by ICT through asynchronous communication via mobile based application. This manuscript describes the conceptual and operation framework of one of the adherence assurance application developed by the authors and investigates further the future prospects of such application.
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