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Stick with the treatment, says start-up

The mobile app uses a cloud-synced database which saves a users' prescription information and then sends reminders when it's time to take the medication. You can use it for yourself, but it is also designed for caretakers.

Even better, it sends alerts to a list of people you specify when you miss a dose, so your roommate, best friend, or boyfriend can call you out on forgetting and remind you to take it!

Medication non-adherence accounts for 27,000 preventable deaths per year in the United States and costs $290 billion in preventable U.S. healthcare costs per year. MediSafe aims to solve it.

MediSafe utilizes mobile and cloud technology to help prevent accidental medication overdoses

Of those who take medicine, half don't take it properly. MediSafe tells a family member--or Nurse Ratched?--if you mess up their medications.

A newer company, MediSafe Project, also leverages family to improve medication adherence. If a patient don't indicate that they've taken their dose, friends and family - the MediSafe Safety Net - is informed

MediSafe's mobile "pillbox" app drives up medication adherence rates by sharing information with patients' loved ones

MediSafe Project Increases Users' Medication Adherence Rate to 81% .

We note now that we consider this particular mobile app, MediSafe, to be a particularly important one, not only because of what the app itself aims to accomplish - which means that it is a statistical certainty that lives will be saved

But one health IT startup, MediSafe Project, is claiming an early victory just two months after launching its dosage reminder app for mobile devices, pushing adherence up by 30% above average

In the first eight weeks since its launch, the mobile app MediSafe Project achieved a reported medication adherence rate of 81% among its users. That figure is 31% higher than the World Health Organization’s estimated average medication adherence rate of 50%