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MediSafe Project updates its mobile medication-reminder app, letting users email stats to doctors and more

Enter MediSafe, a virtual pillbox that can remind you to take medicines at the right time. If you’re responsible for someone – for instance a child or elderly parent – then you can also track their medications.

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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