Edwin Hermkens (graduate student at Business Informatio Systems) and Pit Janssen (pharmacist and UU alumnus) decided to join forces and build an app that focuses on medicine information.

MedApp is available from the Google Play Store and App Store. The creators will keep working on improving and expanding their product. Hermkens: “Right now, patients can read the patient information leaflet, set their alarm, and request repeat prescriptions. We’d like to add instruction videos as well, for example. Think of a how-to video about using an inhaler. Patients can also report side effects, which we will forward to the European Medicines Agency.”

According to Hermkens, the project is challenging in more than one aspect. “It’s quite complex technically, since we work with a huge database. We really complement each other. Not everyone knew each other before we started on this endeavor, and it’s great to see that different TU/e students can create such a product together.”

MedApp has been nominated for the 2015 Health App Awards, a competition for the most useful healthcare app.