The Latest from Medisafe

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.

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!

I think this is a really great idea. But I think MediSafe should create a website, too - for all the people in rural areas without cell phone coverage

The company is today releasing the second version of its service, which allows users to create multiple profiles - so they could, say, track their child's medications - and share how well they stick to their regimen.

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

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MediSafe Launches "Prescription Page" For Doctors

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

The app creates an ecosystem of care providers (such as family and friends) that share notifications of when a patient has taken their medications, and can act as support and reminders for missed dosages; texting and callbacks can be programmed for the patient as well. Pills can be identified, even by photos compared to a stored database, to confirm the right meds

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

Medisafe Project 2.0 Gives Doctors Better Patient Oversight Via Emailable List of Personalized Medication Adherence Stats.

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.