Constructing a secure Pharmaceutical Care System for the Elderly with a mutual authentication protection

∗In Taiwan, due to the advance of medical care and the change of population structure, it has become an elderly society. Most Taiwanese can afford the medical care service recently and hence people in Taiwan can live longer than before. However, the elderly usually do not actually obey the medical order to take medicine because of chronic disease, memory decline or moving difficulty, which leads to the low performance of medical care service. Hence, the pharmaceutical care and safety is often important to promote the quality and efficiency of medical care service. Here, this paper is going to construct a Pharmaceutical care and information consulting system for the Pharmaceutical Service Staff and the elderly. This system is developed based on REDCap system and our system can be used to maintain the record of the medication use and monitor the elder’s medication use record. Furthermore, the system can also provide a medication use information to the elderly patient for the pharmaceutical care. In addition, our system also has the mutual authentication scheme to ensure the privacy of the users. This system is useful for Pharmaceutical Service Staff to provide the home medicine care and monitoring. We believe our proposed system is helpful to promote the quality of pharmaceutical care and safety in Taiwan for the elderly patients.