Aplicativo móvil para control y monitoreo de medicamentos orales en pacientes con enfermedades.

Abstract

In Ecuador, a large part of the population is diagnosed with chronic diseases, among the main ones are diabetes and hypertension, for these clinical pictures the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador has medical practice guides that allow specialists to issue diagnoses that help patients take adequate medication on a daily basis; With this background, an application called "IT'S TIME" is structured for this research project, which is developed with an approach through the iterative and incremental methodology and the use of prototypes, the methodology used generates iterations with the purpose of increasing improvements in features or functionality, such as the use of cutting-edge Firebase and Flutter technologies that allow the project to be adaptable on different types of platforms; giving fluency in 97% of usability determined by means of the survey "Systems of usability scale" being friendly towards the users, the same ones that after the functionality tests it was determined that 70% of the respondents are over 40 years of age, being visible the little contact of the technology in daily use, a necessary characteristic for the application . Despite this difficulty, the application avoids falling into recurring errors that the user may commit, providing alarm records and notifications when they have been programmed, giving adequate control of the medication.