Medtech
This evaluation aims to assess “the efficacy and safety of using technology-enabled smart medication devices to manage medication adherence.” The project will focus on use of such devices as part of a domiciliary care package to determine whether this provides an effective and time and cost saving solution to the social care recipient, the care provider and local authorities, and improves medication adherence and independence. The evaluation will explore benefits, facilitators, barriers and cost impacts of employing such devices, with an emphasis on what works for whom and what contextual factors or mechanisms may make it work. Lancaster University has well-established links with the ICS and more recently the ICB, working closely together for a number of years. This partnership has allowed identification of academic researchers with expertise in evaluations, in technology implementation, prevention of negative outcomes amongst older and frailer people, in health economics, and in social/organisational aspects of technology and healthcare, all related to this proposed evaluation, facilitating identification of Lancaster University as a credible evaluation partner for this project.