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Subscription services are quickly becoming the norm in several industries.  Services such as Spotify and Netflix have made music and movies a service rather than a product. People have even switched to subscription plans for things like online computer repair service. However, what if people could turn something more essential and important into a subscription service too?  Pillpack is a new startup that wants to switch pharmaceutical medication to subscription-based service.  This cool product would replace customers’ weekly or monthly trip to the local pharmacy with a delivery of their medications in one simplified package, which is where the name of the startup has its origins.  This new model certainly disrupts a decades-old system of using brick-and-mortar pharmacies for prescription medicine.  Even online pharmacies have never quite tried anything like the subscription service that Pillpack offers patients. 

Pillpack delivers boxes to patients that organize all their medications into tiny plastic packets.  Pillpack labels medications with the specific dates and times that patients should ingest them. Each plastic package contains all the pills that a patient takes at a specific time of day or night to simplify the process for the patient.  In theory, this means no more sifting through pill bottles and trying to remember what medications need to happen at what times.  Older patients or those with health problems that require several subscriptions would benefit the most from this simplified system.  Pillpack would deliver everything pre-labeled and in organized packets, taking any confusion or potential for complications out of a patient’s daily dosage of medication.

Pillpack is currently available for sign-ups online.  Users will have to visit the startup’s website through the desktop or on a mobile browser to make them their pharmacy.  Pillpack has made an effort to make their site mobile friendly given the explosion of mobile devices’ popularity.  If someone still has trouble signing up despite this effort, mobile tech support services are available.

It is likely that there will be pushback against the company if Pillpack is successful. Entrenched industries such as pharmaceutical goods often respond with hostility to major shake-ups and innovations.  Alternatively, if the product does well, a larger company could acquire or mimic the service and there could be widespread change in the industry.  Either way, Pillpack is set to make a mark on the way people receive their medications.

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