PharmAssist Dispozitiv de Management al Medicației de Muriel Shields and Dosun Shin

Lucrarea PharmAssist Dispozitiv de Management al Medicației de Muriel Shields and Dosun Shin este un câștigător de mare prestigiu al premiului 2020 A' Design Award de Fier în Categoria de Competiție Design de Electrocasnice.

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PharmAssist Dispozitiv de Management al Medicației

de Muriel Shields and Dosun Shin

Client: Arizona State University

Câștigător al premiului A' Design Award de Fier în Categoria Electrocasnic

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Despre PharmAssist Dispozitiv de Management al Medicației

PharmAssist este un dispozitiv automatizat de gestionare a medicației pentru uz casnic. Unitatea cu profil redus se integrează în partea frontală a unui frigider rezidențial, înlocuind un dispenser standard de apă și gheață. Rețetele sosesc în flacoane compatibile care sunt introduse în dispozitiv și citite printr-un cip NFC. Sunt emise alerte vizuale și sonore, iar medicamentele sunt distribuite la ore prestabilite printr-un jgheab lateral. Solicitările de reînnoire sunt trimise automat către farmacie. Designul ajută persoanele în vârstă să își gestioneze medicația în siguranță, acasă.

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Despre A' Design Award de Fier

PharmAssist Dispozitiv de Management al Medicației a câștigat A' Design Award de Fier, o recunoaștere prestigioasă acordată designurilor bune care îndeplinesc cerințele profesionale și industriale așteptate de la creații bine concepute. Câștigătorii Fierului demonstrează mare pricepere, înaltă specializare, înțelegere de specialitate și capacitate creativă din partea creatorilor lor. Se așteaptă ca PharmAssist Dispozitiv de Management al Medicației să fie o creație foarte apreciată, admirată și prețuită, practică și inovatoare. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Fier integrează cele mai bune practici din industrie și are caracteristici tehnice competente îmbinate cu know-how și talent. Pentru acuratețea sa, PharmAssist Dispozitiv de Management al Medicației merită respect și este conceput pentru a aduce îmbunătățiri ale calității vieții care ajută la facerea lumii un loc mai bun.

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Proprietăți Unice: PharmAssist is an in-home, low-profile, automated medication management device designed to fit in a residential refrigerator in place of a standard water and ice dispensing unit. This system is designed primarily for elderly patients, and emits visual and audio alerts, dispenses medications at pre-programmed times throughout the day, and automatically sends digital refill requests to the patient’s pharmacy.
Dimensiuni și Ambalare: Height 374mm x Width 304mm x Depth 98mm
Etichete: Medication, Medication Management, Elderly Care, Geriatric Care, Smart Home, Connected
Tehnologie de Producție: Interviews with nurses and nursing professors indicated that most existing medication management devices are set up in the kitchen. While sketching and building foam core prototypes, we decided to integrate the device into the front face of the refrigerator to give it a lower-profile and tie it in more seamlessly with the health and wellness hub of the home. After settling in this direction, we created a series of CAD iterations and an appearance model with a professonal prototyping company.
Provocare de Design: The primary challenge was designing a device that would encourage rather than demean the user when on display in their home. Several of the geriatric nursing professors at ASU explained many elderly patients hesitate to use existing medication management devices for fear that they will signal a lack of independence to guests entering the home. This influenced the decision to create a functional, yet low profile solution that fits seamlessly into a modern user’s home.
Cercetare: Interviews became the primary type of research for PharmAssist. The intent was to establish the most common risks for aging in place, and collect more information about existing solutions to make this practice safer and more comfortable. Interview questions were prepared beforehand, and all discussions were filmed or voice recorded for reference. Formal interviews were conducted with Geriatric Nursing Professors from Arizona State University’s nursing school, as well as with employees at an assisted living facility in Phoenix. Informal interviews with contacts that had assisted older relatives with in-home care were also taken into account.

After conducting interviews and mapping out all the information collected, three major risks appeared at the forefront – falls, loneliness, and medication mismanagement. Once interviews became more focused, issues with current medication management devices came to light, such as the potential to demean the user, be difficult to operate, and not work in coordination with pharmacies. Though there are many challenges to aging in place, research suggested that improving these devices could assist elderly people with living safely and more comfortably in the environment they call home.
Inspirație: Aging in place is becoming an increasingly popular trend in the United States. Many elderly patients now choose to live at home rather than transition to a nursing home or assisted care facility. Though there are many benefits to staying in the same environment, there are also risks. After conducting interviews at Phoenix-based nursing homes and within Arizona State University’s geriatric nursing program, it became clear that one of the most prominent risks is the mismanagement of medication.
Durata Proiectului: This project was completed at Arizona State University in U.S. from September 2015 to December 2015. PharmAssist was also exhibited at by Model Solution company who fabricated the appearance model in their 2016 showcase at the International IDSA Conference in Detroit in the U.S.
Flux Operațional: After the initial setup, the customer will receive all prescriptions in a PharmAssist compatible bottle that is then inserted into the device. PharmAssist will read information off the bottle's NFC chip to emit visual and audio alerts, dispense the user’s medications at pre-programmed times through the left-side chute, and automatically send refill requests to the patient’s pharmacy. This will decrease the amount of human error for elderly patients who choose to administer their own medication.
Membrii Echipei: Designer: Muriel Shields
Designer: Dosun Shin
Credite Imagini: Main Image, Image #1, 2, 3, 4: Muriel Shields
Video Credits: Muriel Shields