Commercial Devices-Based System Designed to Improve the Treatment Adherence of Hypertensive Patients

This paper presents an intelligent system designed to increase the treatment adherence of hypertensive patients. The architecture was developed to allow communication among patients, physicians, and families to determine each patient’s rate assertion of medication intake time and their self-monitoring of blood pressure. Concerning the medication schedule, the system is designed to follow a predefined prescription, adapting itself to undesired...