Send patients automatic medication reminders by WhatsApp and email

Once a prescription is sent, patients get scheduled reminders by WhatsApp and email until their medication runs out.

How the work actually flows

It repeats. Every path runs; all paths must finish before it continues; repeats polling continues every few minutes.

Pattern: Structured Loop (21) · Parallel Split (2) · Synchronisation (3)

flowchart TD trig>"prescription marked as sent"]:::trig s0["create reminder schedule"]:::task s1["check for due reminders"]:::task s2[("log reminder as sent")]:::store trig --> s0 s0 --> s1 gx{"+ notify by which channel"}:::gate s1 --> gx p00["send whatsapp reminder"]:::task gx -->|"whatsapp"| p00 p10["send email reminder"]:::task gx -->|"email"| p10 jn{"+ both sent"}:::gate p00 --> jn p10 --> jn jn --> s2 lp{"until medication schedule ends"}:::gate s2 --> lp lp -. "polling continues every few minutes" .-> s1 lp -->|"finished"| out out[/"reminders delivered on schedule"/]:::out pay{{"better medication adherence without manual calls"}}:::pay out --> pay classDef task fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#34b8f0,color:#2c2a29 classDef svc fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#7c8795,color:#2c2a29 classDef mi fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29,stroke-width:2px classDef human fill:#fff,stroke:#0079a8,color:#0079a8 classDef store fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29 classDef trig fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigtime fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigdata fill:#8ad4f5,stroke:#0079a8,color:#06314c,font-weight:bold classDef gate fill:#fff,stroke:#e8a23d,color:#6b4708,font-weight:bold classDef out fill:#1f9d6b,stroke:#167a53,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef pay fill:#06314c,stroke:#021f33,color:#fff
Starts itA stepA record or sheetEvery pathWaits for allRepeat or finishResultPayoff
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Advanced

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The problem it solves

Patients forget doses, especially with medications taken several times a day, and your staff don't have time to call everyone with reminders. Missed doses hurt outcomes and mean more follow-up calls later.

Who it fits

A medical practice or pharmacy that wants to improve patient medication adherence.

How it works

  1. A prescription is marked as sent in the system
  2. A reminder schedule is created based on the dosage times
  3. The system checks every few minutes for reminders that are due
  4. Due reminders are sent by WhatsApp and email at the same time
  5. Each sent reminder is logged and marked complete
What you get

Reminders patients get until their medicine runs out

Patients automatically receive medication reminders by WhatsApp and email until their prescription is finished.

What you get

A logged history of every medication reminder sent to the patient.

What you need

A Google account, an email service, and a WhatsApp Business API account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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