- 學位論文
以行動裝置減少銀髮族之用藥疏失
Using Mobile Phone to Decrease Medication Errors in the Elderly
摘要
行動電話普及以來，人手一機已是先進國家一個普遍的現象，利用人們隨身携帶行動電話的特性，除了基本的語音通訊功能之外，許多的附加功能及服務亦隨之產生，照像功能即是目前大部份行動電話必備功能之一。 另外，自條碼發明至今，市面上的各類商品外包裝上幾乎都有編印條碼，消費者購買商品後，亦可善加利用這樣的特性來方便自己往後辨認商品的內容。 銀髮族隨著年歲漸增，藥品及營養品逐漸成為生活中必要的一部分，然而研究指出，高達60%的老年病患未遵從醫囑服藥，大大影響疾病控制。但銀髮族在記憶力以及眼力上的退化，常會遭遇到無法獨力分辨藥品為何或如何使用的情形，包裝上藥名及成份字體太小就是原因之一。 本論文嘗試建立一個平台，利用行動電話的照像功能，經由商品上的條碼，讓銀髮族可以輕易得知藥品的資訊。在藥品取得之初，以影像處理的技術辨識出條碼編號，銀髮族可以自行或由他人協助，錄製藥品品名及作用等資訊，最後將條碼編號和資訊連結起來。爾後，只要掃描條碼，辨識出條碼編號，就可以確知藥品的資訊，大大有助於落實服藥遵從，減少用藥疏失之情事。
並列摘要
Since mobile phone has gained popularity, it is common that everyone has a mobile phone with him or her in the developed countries. For a mobile phone, in addition to the basic speech communication features, many other features and services become necessary. A camera feature is one of these indispensable features. In another aspect, after the introduction of barcode, nearly all kinds of commodities are attached their bar-codes on the surface of their packages. Consumers can also take this advantage to identify the content of the commodities later after purchasing them. As getting older, taking medicines and nutriments have become an essential part of daily lives of the elderly. However, many reports suggested that 60% of the elderly patients failed to take their medication as prescribed. This greatly effects the well-being of the patients. But due to the decaying of their brain and eyesight, the elderly often encounter difficulties in identifying what medicine it is or how to use it. One of the reasons is because the name and description printed on the package are often too small to see clearly. This thesis focuses on creating a platform to help the elderly to utilize camera of their mobile phone devices to recognize medicines and nutriments more easily through barcodes. Based on the image processing technique to decode the barcode at first when the elderly get the medicine, they record the information about the name and description of the medicine to database. At last, the barcode number and the information will be linked together. Thereafter, the elderly can just scan the barcode to get the information of the medicine as long as the barcode is recognized. This greatly helps to fulfill medication adherence and decrease medication errors.