SIMmed

 
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Region: 
Africa & Middle East
Country: 
South Africa
Partners: 
Computainer;
Activities: 

The patient takes their medication and presses a speed dial on the mobile phone. If the compliance database has not been received that message within the prescribed period it generates an SMS to remind the patient. If the patient still does not take their medication and presses speed dial, the database will generate a SMS to a local care giver who will visit the patient and get them to take their medication. After a trial the developers were planning to expand the programme in South Africa.

Further reading: 

CompuTainer, Mass Compliance Checking

Barclay, E. 2009, Text Messages Could Hasten Tuberculosis Drug Compliance, The Lancet, vol. 373, no. 9657, pp. 15-16

[added March 2011]

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