This technology increases patients’ awareness, improves therapy results, encourages the change of the patients’ behavior, and improves the health care provider participation in limited resource constraints ( 23). The technology of smart phones has a lot of potentials for improving the results of the medication adherence in the health system. Due to availability and ease of use, number of clinical decision support systems is increasing ( 22). 90 percent of the people in the world and 80 percent of the villagers have cellphones ( 20, 21). There are 10 billion users of the smart phones and personal digital assistants (PDA) in the world. The technology of the smart phones is being developed quickly in the health system. Smart phones make opportunities for decreasing costs and increasing achievement to the services to improve the efficiency and the effectiveness of health care processes ( 19). In developing countries, smart phones have remarkable effects on health outcomes. Today, regarding availability of powerful computer resources and mobile devices, mobile health systems field has been developed with following benefits: availability of necessary hardware and applications, easy use, time saving for users, and great economic benefits ( 17, 18). World Health Organization (WHO)encourages the utilization of new technologies in providing health care in societies with not enough resources ( 16). Model of the medication reminder mobile application called “Seeb” Therefore Information technology solutions can help patients to manage the medication administration ( 14) and to reduce medication errors ( 15). Medication non-adherence has some consequences such as: the decrease in the effectiveness of the patient treatment, lack of the disease control, weak clinical outcomes like the development of preventable diseases, medication side effects, the reduction in quality of life, disability, and even death, creating the poor economic outcomes, and the growing use of health resources ( 13). Medication orders non-adherence in intentional and accidental cases includes: forgetting to take the medication because of amnesia or dizziness ( 8), the incorrect dose administration, medication complexity because of the poly pharmacy ( 9, 10), lack of enough information for the correct administration of the medication ( 11), incorrect timing, the incorrect use of the instruments of the medication administration such as inhalation medications, lack of enough self-confidence for managing the disease, lack of enough awareness from the disease condition, the complications resulting from re-consumption of the medication prescription which shouldn’t have been used again, and the less relationship between the patient and health services provider ( 12, 13). Apart from the kind of disease, medications interactions, and the quality of patient non-adherence schedules measures, the medication non-adherence mean in chronic diseases is about 50 percent ( 6, 7). It costs 100 billion dollars for the health system. Medications’ non-adherence causes almost between 33 and 69 percent of the hospitalization and 23 percent of the nursing home services in the U.S. Medical orders non-adherence is the most important problem of the health system. ![]() The safety improvement of the medication therapy is more important in outpatient care because prescribed medications have different types and variations. The most common patients’ errors are their incorrect interpretation of physician orders and the ambiguities in relation to the medication administration ( 4). ![]() Five percent of hospitals’ admissions are because of medication errors that patients themselves commit. One of the factors that are known as the medical errors is lack of patient adherence to physician orders ( 3). Discharged patients from hospitals need more medication order compliance ( 1) creating the essential conditions for reviewing the patient medication administration orders after discharge decreases the hospitalization and mortality, and increases patient quality of life ( 2).
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