High-quality, low-cost medication reminder apps improve medication adherence in patients with coronary heart disease, and basic apps are just as good as those with advanced features, a new study has found.

The study, by researchers from the University of Sydney’s Westmead Applied Research Centre, the George Institute for Global Health and Westmead Hospital and published in the journal Heart, looked at 163 predominately male patients with CHD over a three-month period.