Presentation describing the idea behind medica, the prescription manager and medication reminder. The presentation includes a pictured walk through the app explaining how it works.

1. medica
Multimedia Prescription Manager &
Medication Reminder

2. Contents
 Problem Overview
 Current Solutions
 Approach of medica
 Advantages of medica
 Prospective Customers
 Pictured Tutorial
 medica Version 1.0
 About IRWAA, LLC

3. Problem Overview
 Medication non-compliance represents a major
obstacle to the effective delivery of health
care.
 The problem is significant in both developed
and developing countries (only about 50% of
patients with chronic diseases living in
developed countries follow treatment
recommendations)
 Problem goes worse in developing countries
(poorer "health literacy" and tough economic
conditions)

4. Problem Overview (Cont’d)
 Reasons for non-compliance are multi
factorial.
 One of the main factors is inability to keep
regular medications timing.
 Hence, a medication reminder is needed.
 Another problem: Frequent travelers need to
keep their medical info with them on the
go. They need mobile prescriptions.

5. Current Solutions
 Current medication reminders are not
convenient:
 electronic pillboxes: not portable, and need
dedicating time to well organize and place
the pills
 medical watches: hard to adjust and looks
ugly!
 Other online/offline solutions: expensive and
even not widely available (especially for poor
people)
 Here, medica provides a better solution.

6. Approach of medica
 medica is a multimedia prescription manager
and medication reminder.
 Users can store and manage as many
prescriptions as they wish with multiple
medications each (it is time for mobile
prescriptions; no more paper)
 Users can also record audio instructions given
by doctors and attach the audio to the
prescription (very useful to recall instructions
recorded from doctor’s mouth)

7. Approach of medica (Cont’d)
 Users can add unlimited number of
medications to the prescription and set
flexible medication reminders to go off on
which times at which days.
 Moreover, users can even capture a photo
of the medication to exactly take the right
medication at the right time.
 Medication reminders are customizable in
tones, repetitions, vibrations, flashes, …

8. Advantages of medica
 Here, medica provides a better solution
with its:
 mobility,
 effectiveness,
 flexibility,
 availability (even for feature phones),
 stylishness,
 cost-effectiveness,
 and giving peace of mind!!

9. Prospective Customers
 Any one is subject to taking medication (no
one does not fall sick!)
 People benefiting most from medica
include:
 Patients with chronic diseases
 Caregivers and nurses
 Patients with memory problems !

10. Pictured Tutorial
A tutorial through the main functions and
screens of medica app (v1.0).

11. Main Form
 The home screen of
medica.
 It is showed when the
app is started and there
is no near pending
medication reminders.
 Click “Prescriptions” to
begin work.

12. New Prescription
 Now, there are no
currently saved
prescriptions.
 Add one by clicking (New
Prescription)

13. Fill Prescription Fields
 Fill the fields for the
new prescription.
 Patient Name, Patient
Age, Patient Address,
Prescription Date, Follow-
up Date, Follow-up time,
…

14. Record Audio Instructions
 You can record audio
instructions given by the
prescriber in order to
keep it for further
reference.

15. Replay/Remove Audio Instructions
 You can reply what you
recorded when you
wish.
 You can also remove it
by clicking on the (-)
button.

16. Add Medication
 Click the “+Medication”
option to open a new
form to add medication
data.

17. Fill Medication Fields
 Now, fill the fields for
the medication.
 Medication
Name/Strength,
Medication Form,
Medication Doze,
Medication Quantity,
Medication Refills, …

18. Capture Medication Photo
 You can capture a
snapshot of the
medication to be taken.
 This will be useful when
the medication reminder
goes off.

19. Set Medication Timetable
 Specify time and weekdays
for taking the medication,
treatment session, etc.
 Uncheck the weekdays
that you don’t need to be
reminded in!
 Click (Save) when you
finish.

20. Save Prescription
 When you save, the
medication, you return
back to the Prescription
Form.
 Now click (Save) to save
the prescription data and
return to Prescriptions
Form.

21. Prescription Added
 Note that the
prescription and
overview information
will appear in the
Prescriptions Form.
 The green check mark
means that this
prescription is active.

22. Add Many Prescriptions !!
 Repeat the previous
steps and add as many
prescriptions as your
device memory can
store.

23. Edit Prescription
 You can return to your
saved prescription and
edit its fields, and also
edit its medications.
 Click on the medication
name to View/Edit.

24. Settings
 You can adjust different
app settings from the
Settings Form.

25. Adjust Audio Settings
 You can customize your
reminder’s audio
behaviour:
 Volume Level
 ReminderTone
 HumanVoice

26. Adjust Reminder Periods
 You can customize your
reminder’s timing
behaviour:
 Snoozing Period
 Flashing Period
 Tone Repetition
 Others!

27. Restore Default Settings (if you wish)
 You can restore default
factory settings.
 Even, you can wipe all
data stored on the
application (All
prescriptions and
associated medications)

28. Get More Info
 Click on the (More Info)
choice to know more
about how reminders
work.

29. Next Reminders Notification
 When you exit the app, a
notification shows next
reminder.

30. Medication Reminder
 When reminder time
comes out, the app is
auto-started to remind
you of the medication to
take.
 For caregivers, the
patient name is shown
on top of the panel.

31. About
 Developed by IRWAA,
LLC (Alexandria, Egypt)
 Support:
support@irwaa.com
 General Inquiry:
aelkaragy@gmail.com
(+20) 121884440

32. medica Version 1.0
 Version 1.0 of medica is released, and updates are
still developed.
 It is published in Ovi Store and available at
(http://store.ovi.com/content/51471)
 Although the current release has English interface,
Arabic support is scheduled for near development.
 IRWAA (the developer of medica) planned a
proposal to extend the idea by providing an online
web-based PRO version targeting health
professionals (doctors, physicians, etc) to monitor
their patients.

33. About IRWAA, LLC
 IRWAA is a technology startup company in its
very early stage (based in Alexandria, Egypt)
 Founded in March 2010, and registered in June
2010 !!
 Only two partners till now !!
 In IRWAA, our mission is to quench people’s thirst
for apps !!