Our services
MAECON provides services to a wide range of stakeholders including MedTech, pharmaceutical industry, healthcare professionals and patients (organizations). These include clinical efficacy trials, consultancy, laboratory testing and educational courses on medication adherence. Read more by clicking on the stakeholder buttons on the right.
MAECON provides services to a wide range of stakeholders including MedTech, pharmaceutical industry, healthcare professionals and patients (organizations). These include clinical efficacy trials, consultancy, laboratory testing and educational courses on medication adherence. Read more by clicking on the stakeholder buttons below.
Our showcases
MAECON performs a variety of medication adherence related projects. These include studies on (pharmaco)epidemiology, usability and bioanalysis to randomized clinical trials of adherence enhancing interventions and digital devices. Further, educational, awareness and intervention development programs are internationally provided. A selection is showcased below.
Development of a real-world registry for digital inhalers (AURORA)
Digital inhalers are currently being assessed in clinical studies and some have recently been introduced on the market. Indeed, digital inhalers could help in management
Usability assessment of a novel smart blister
Recently, an electronic version of the Dosepak® (EDP) has been developed to monitor adherence to tablets, pills or capsules. It consists of a customizable blister
Development of a practical adherence toolkit (TAI Toolkit)
To be most effective, interventions focusing on enhancing adherence should be evidence-based and provided in a personalized manner. To identify personal issues with adherence in
Check our latest news
Randomised OUTERSPACE digital spacer trial published
After delivering the world’s first ever study with a digital spacer in patients with COPD (see here), MAECON is happy to announce that now also a first randomised controlled trial in patients with asthma treated in primary care has been completed and published in peer-reviewed journal Respiratory Medicine (see here).
Usability study TAI Toolkit completed!
MAECON has recently completed a usability study assessing the Test of Adherence to Inhalers (TAI) Toolkit. The Toolkit has been previously developed by our team (see here) and was now tested across 4 primary care settings and 4 secondary care settings, including 79 patients with asthma and/or COPD. Healthcare professionals
Economic value of digital inhalers to support adherence
Many innovative digital technologies are promising in supporting medication adherence and clinical decision making. However, they come with certain costs. Whether these costs are offset by clinical and economic benefits is often unknown. To uncover the economic case for digital inhalers, MAECON has performed a cost-effectiveness analysis in patients with
The team behind MAECON
MAECON works at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) and/or the University of Groningen (UG). The members are independent senior researchers and represent a wide range of sub-specialisms related to medication adherence.
