Objective
In clinical studies of prototype drugs, including treatment of diseases typical of the elderly, performed over samples of a few hundred people, it is of paramount importance to make sure that people are observing strictly medication taking. There is, therefore, a need to develop a cheap, reliable system which delivers medication rightfully to people. This niche application opens the path to three main markets: clinical trials (a few tens of thousand units in Europe), hospitals and health care units (hundreds of thousands of units), the elderly dedicated homes (millions of units in Europe). For elderly people experiencing medical care, one of the key issues is indeed observance, i.e. taking the right medication, at the right time, in the right quantity. This is why a consortium of three SMEs- ADDS, STERICICLIN,COFOB, active in drug distribution, hospital equipment sales and elderly care, together with a private clinic have asked two SMEs acting as RTD performers (TAM TELESANTE and ERGON) and one University (IOANNINA) to validate the concept of a cheap, reliable medication distribution system able to handle any blistered medication (so that full preservation of the medication features is ensured before drug is delivered to the patient) and to control each drug absorption (time, quantity and nature). This system, which will automate medication taking, has the potential to be implemented during clinical trials, within medical care houses or hospitals and, in the long term, at elderly's dedicated homes: today in Europe, there are 3.5 Million people who need to have medication prepared three times a day. They can use, on the average, three different blistered products, whereas 80 of medical prescriptions deal with blistered products only. By addressing all the issues at once, including ethical problemsrelated,to robots in hospitals, the project outputs will generate both safer and more reliable drug taking at affordable costs.
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Coordinator
BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT
France
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