Mobile health: A carrot and stick intervention to improve medication adherence

Medication adherence is a critical element in promoting healthcare outcomes, especially for chronic medical conditions. However, due to several underlying factors, major challenges such as how to improve and maintain the required level of medication adherence still exist. We propose a novel mobile health-based intervention, we call Carrot and Stick, to promote medication adherence (MA) for patients with intentional and/or unintentional...