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Statistics shows that as many as forty percent of prescriptions contain some sort of error, from improper dosing to overlooked interactions with other drugs, simply because pharmacists are unable to read a doctor’s handwriting. Many people have witnessed first-hand what could go wrong with drug interactions and poor medication management. It would surprise many to know that over 7,000 people in the U.S. die every year from delayed or misread prescriptions. ScriptPad is an app created with the goal of eliminating errors resulting from poor penmanship or the inability to distinguish between similarly named medications and building in a drug database to limit the wrong interactions. It is unbelievable to think that simple writing errors can lead to so much trouble in the Internet age, and Scriptpad looks to change that. Read more »

Family life is constantly busy, especially with multiple children.  Work, school, extracurricular activities, and family functions all fill up people’s schedules very quickly.  The frenetic nature of family life can often lead to important things ending up neglected.  Probably the most important thing that people gloss over or forget about is healthcare needs.  Both adults and children often miss yearly physical exams, and kids sometimes even miss vaccinations and important tests.  There is a cool product out that can help avoid these oversights and make sure that keeping up with family healthcare is never an issue.  That cool product is Allayo, an iPhone application that acts as a “virtual assistant” to help people plan out their healthcare ahead of time and fit it into their schedules.  The product’s goal is to prevent parents from forgetting to keep track of important aspects of their family’s healthcare.  If any person has difficulty downloading the app on their Apple product, Apple tech support can always help provide a solution. Read more »

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.  Read more »