It's easy for patients to manage their many medications if there's a reliable management app at hand. But building one is a specific process.

1. Medication
Management App
Development

2. “Mark suffers from high blood pressure. His doctor prescribed
him medications to take throughout the day, but Mark
sometimes forgets. By evening, this can result in health issues
and 911 calls… There are millions of Marks in the world, and they
all could use a helpful tool to remind them to take their meds.

3. The importance of
medication management
applications
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Managing medications involves a lot of planning. Patients need to:
● List all prescribed meds and label their use
● Create a schedule for when medications should be taken
● Make a pill organizer like a dosette box with separate compartments for times of the day and
days of the week
● Follow the schedule to take medications on time
● Make a copy of the schedule to share with a doctor

5. How strong is the demand
for medication management
apps?
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There are three major categories of medication app users:
● High-risk patients with serious health conditions who need a digital tool to coordinate
their medications.
● Elderly people who often forget to take pills. With an app, they can receive timely
reminders and share their schedules and medication history with caregivers (mostly family
members).
● Parents who need to oversee prescriptions for their children or the whole family.
Now there are over 318,000 mHealth apps available for download. Around 60% of
smartphone users have downloaded at least one mHealth app.

7. Medication reminders vs
medication management
apps
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8. Many apps billed as “medication reminder”
apps offer SMS alerts. However, these apps can
easily be replaced by a smartphone’s default
functionality.

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There are three types of medication reminder apps:
1. Simple medication reminders (SMRs)
These are medication apps for patients that offer some basic features like flexible scheduling and
customizable alerts.
1. Advanced medication reminders (AMRs)
In addition to the basic features of SMRs, AMRs offer time zone support, pictures of medications, tracking of
late and missed doses, and user notes.
1. Medication management apps (MMAs)
These combine the features of the two previous types and allow users to create multiple accounts, manage
and store health data, and share information with doctors.

10. Four problems that
medication management
apps solve
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13. Features of medication
management apps
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14. Must-have
features of MMAs

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● Digital scheduling allows users to create schedules by entering information about medications.
● Smart reminders pop up, keep buzzing and dinging until a patient takes their dose.
● An interaction algorithm sends warning messages if newly scheduled medications aren’t compatible with
previously scheduled medications.
● Prescription renewal alerts notify mobile app users when it’s time to refill their prescriptions.
● A pill identifier requires the user to input the pill’s characteristics; then the app checks a database to generate a
list of pills with similar characteristics.
● Location search allows users to find the nearest drugstore with the required medication in stock.
● A notes field lets users enter specific instructions for taking medications, list possible side effects, and add
recommendations from a doctor.
● A missed dose tracker records if a user took a dose. That’s helpful for tracking the overall treatment.
● Sharing is a must when someone else is helping a patient to manage their medications. A medication app allows
users to export their schedules to share with family caregivers and doctors.

16. Nice-to-have
features of MMAs

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● A “buddy” field allows a user to choose a person who will receive notifications if they fail to take a
scheduled medication.
● Caring for multiple people is now possible with medication management apps. Some apps allow a
user to add multiple patients and create individual schedules and receive timely alerts for each.
● A companion website allows users to access profile information via a computer, input information,
and synchronize it with a mobile phone.
With a full set of features in one app, patients can easily reduce the number of visits to the
doctor’s office and remember to take their medications.

18. Five apps to improve
medication management
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Medisafe
Medisafe is packed with helpful features: access to health measurements, interaction warnings,
unlimited profiles, refill reminders, reminder sounds, report sharing, and health app integration.

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CareZone
CareZone has trackers for sleep, weight, and blood glucose level. Medication data can be shared with
insurance providers, doctors, and pharmacies.

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MedAdvisor
A MedAdvisor app user can view all current medications and dosage instructions, set schedules and
reminders, keep a record of past medications, check side effects, and refill prescriptions.

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Mango Health
Mango Health is for patients that need lots of medication information and the ability to share data
with others. Reminders are easy to schedule and edit. The app also includes healthy habit reminders.

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Dosecast
Dosecast offers flexible scheduling with the ability to schedule doses on a daily/weekly/monthly basis,
on certain days of the week, and even after a preset number of hours or days.

24. Software developed by
the Steelkiwi team
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25. STEELKIWI
Steelkiwi is a US outsourcing development company with two offices in Ukraine. We
develop mobile applications and web platforms based on the latest technologies:
● React, Angular, and Vue for frontend development
● Python/Django as the core of the backend development stack
● Swift and Objective-C for iOS apps
● Kotlin and Java for Android mobile apps
● Flutter for Android mobile apps

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Meddy.co
One of our latest digital products
is Meddy.co, a platform that
allows patients to schedule
appointments with their doctors.
In 2019, Meddy.co became the
largest doctor booking platform
in the UAE and facilitated over
50,000 visits.
Meddy has raised a pre-Series A
round of $560,000 and $2.5
million in Series A funding.

27. If you’re thinking of developing a medication
management app or you need any consultation, let us
know via hello@steelkiwi.com
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