eMedonline can be thought of as a “smart service” that leverages the inherent abilities of wireless technologies like cell phones and radiofrequency identification (RFID) to facilitate medication compliance and remote patient monitoring. It functions as a system that includes a cell phone, RFID, and web-based services that collect and distribute information between the patient and clinician. In this way, it complements therapeutic portfolios by providing a complete solution for disease management and clinical trials.

It is fundamentally a preemptive service, rather than reactive, or even proactive. Preemptive means that users can take action based upon hard data—real world evidence, or field intelligence. In this case, medication data read from an RFID tag is collected in real time and helps patients verify that they are taking the correct medicine at the correct time, while helping caregivers and clinicians appropriately intervene in the case of missed medications or adverse events before they become a significant health risk.

eMedonline automates the collection of compliance data, facilitates outcomes data entry at the point of care, and enables real time transmission of all data to a central server with clinical interface. It allows you to map adherence to outcomes and dosing, and enables predictive modeling and appropriate intervention to maintain dose intensity.

Here’s How It Works

A medication scheduler notifies patients at programmed intervals and delivers tailored instructions about the medications being taken based on the patient profile. Patients take the medication as prescribed, and RFID or barcode data on the package is read and sent to the server where it is stored for review, reporting, and modeling.

eMedonline automatically collects time-dose specific data for individual patients—including dosing times, missed doses, and outcomes data—in real time from a single device. The data can be analyzed through the eMedonline clinical interface, or exported for use in other clinical monitoring systems. It provides important information on the medication and health status of an individual patient, and on the patient population as a whole.