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CASE STUDY Henry Brown is a 67-year-old American living in the rural in the prevalence of chronic diseases. This presents a major central United States. He is prescribed multiple medications challenge for our healthcare system. Most medications for hypertension, depression, diabetes mellitus type 2, and require consistent adherence to the prescribed regimen for a recent bacterial infection. Henry is not alone. In fact, them to achieve therapeutic effect. Yet it is known that estimates suggest at least 70% of the US, aging population adherence rates remain suboptimal across populations and s prescribed multiple medications due to the rapid increase disease states. Because Henry uses a smartphone, his prima

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Answer: Henry's primary healthcare provider should consider when selecting an app for him that the app should remind him about the medicines as well as it should have fixed time at which he has to take which medicine. The app should show the time difference of taking two medicines together and their interactions. App should also mention about the drugs which should or shouldn't taken with food.

The app should also inform about the diet and calories intake so that the diabetic, hypertension etc condition can be managed.

As app has facilities of configured automated, generalized message, Henry can send information to the healthcare provider. There are some risk regarding the app as it is an electronic device so we can't completely rely on it because sometimes if any error occurred, there would be problem for Henry to know about the medication timings. Most important thing that all the time it is not possible to carry the device, so there is lot of chances that may be he forgets to take medication.