PillDrill – Never Forget to Take Your Medication Again! "This is a sponsored post. I have been compensated through the Chronic Illness Bloggers network. All opinions remain my own, and I was in no way influenced by the company." “Honey, did you take your pill?” “Grandma, don’t forget your insulin.” “You forgot your medication three days in a row?!” When you live with a chronic illness, you already have enough on your plate. Dealing with muscle aches, fatigue, joint pain, headaches, mood swings, and brain fog is difficult enough without adding even more stress. Your family and friends mean well when they remind (and sometimes nag) you to take your medication every day. But being reminded constantly can make you feel like a child, and, …show more content…
PillDrill is an automated and customizable electronic medication minder that makes remembering to take your medication a breeze. Unlike other systems, PillDrill doesn’t try to change your routine, it simply improves upon the one you already have! Finally - A Medication Adherence System That’s Easy to Use PillDrill comes in an attractive teal and white hub with individual pill pods and scanning tags for all of your medications (pills, injections, inhalers, eyedrops, and more). The Hub sits next to your pills at home, knows your medication schedule, and issues clear audio/visual alerts when doses are due. The only two requirements for using this device are electric power and a Wi-Fi connection. What PillDrill Does for You and Your Family Reminds Will PillDrill, you get clear, timely alerts that remind you when it’s time to take your medication. The Hub captures your attention in three distinct …show more content…
You can use the Mood Cube to track how you feel at any time of the day, whether you’re scheduled to take a dosage of medication or not. Not only does this help you keep track of how the medication is working for you (and if there are any side effects), it can also alert your doctor, nurse, or a trusted loved one to how you’re feeling in real time. Notifies If someone in your care has difficulty remembering to take medication, PillDrill has an app that can be connected to your smartphone, so you know exactly when that person has taken their medication and how they are feeling. The best part is, only one of you has to be “tech savvy”, the person receiving the updates on their smartphone. If you don’t use one or care to, that’s not a problem at all. This impressive little gadget has been getting quite a bit of press and buzz on social media, and ECRM named PillDrill its Best New Home Health Product for 2016! What to Expect When Your Kit Arrives Each kit includes: • The PillDrill Hub • Two (2) weekly pill strips • 12 scanning tags • Mood Cube The PillDrill is a small, attractive device that’s easy for virtually anyone to set up and use in just 10
Cornerstone also allows a practice and their clients to interact in various ways such as sending automatic reminders by mail and/or email. Clients can also confirm via email or text with the confirmation recorded in Cornerstone automatically. Customized alerts pop up when checking in clients such as patient temperament, overdue procedures and vaccines as well as alerts when clients have cancelled or missed appointments. Ultrasounds, x-rays and even patient profile pictures can be stored and easily accessed when needed. Patient Records such as urinalysis, cytologies, ultrasound reports, x-rays and SOAP notes are kept in chronological order in the patient summary section for easy access. Templates for surgeries, SOAPS, Vitals, routine wellness checks as well as necropsy requests and reports can be easily accessed and customized through the Cornerstone software. Cornerstone is also able to import lab results directly from the lab into the medical record. Labels for prescriptions as well as cage cards and collars can be easily printed for clear and concise patient care and safety. Cornerstone’s billing and invoicing system allows doctors to add treatments for hospitalized or boarding patients while simultaneously creating an itemized bill. Cornerstone can also process payments and accepts all major credit cards. Through a partnership with MWI Veterinary Supply, Cornerstone enables a practice to place MWI orders directly through Cornerstone, providing complete tracking of inventory. IntraVet offers a real time inventory control system to track common inventory values, such as average cost, ratios of products bought and sold, tax recording, controlled substance consumption and inventory, dispensing fees, and discounts. The system is also capable of generating reports for inventory consumption and quantities of products on hand, and can create
Instant Release comes in tablets which size from 5 mg, 7.5 mg, 10 mg, 12.5 mg, 15 mg, 20 mg, and 30 mg. They are taken 2-3 times a day, with around 4-6 hours in between. Extended release comes in 5 mg, 10 mg, 15 mg, 20 mg, 25 mg, or 30 mg capsules. Extended release is taken only once a day, in the morning.
The varieties of pharmaceutical and prescription drugs that are available to the public provide many different consequences, which could lead to other health problems among users. Opioids, for example, are typical...
Being diagnosed with a chronic illness is a life-altering event. During this time, life is not only difficult for the patient, but also for their loved ones. Families must learn to cope together and to work out the best options for the patient and the rest of the family. Although it may not be fair at times, things may need to be centered on or around the patient no matter what the circumstance. (Abbott, 2003) Sacrifices may have to be made during difficult times. Many factors are involved when dealing with chronic illnesses. Coping with chronic illnesses alter many different emotions for the patients and the loved ones. Many changes occur that are very different and difficult to get used to. (Abbott, 2003) It is not easy for someone to sympathize with you when they haven’t been in the situation themselves. No matter how many books they read or people they talk to, they cannot come close to understanding.
...vacy screen on the computer and/or turning the computer away so customers cannot see what’s on the screen, and use a secure network to receive new prescriptions or request refills. A patient must be notified and give authorization to allow a list of their drugs be given to a marketing company. The authorization must say what the data disclosure and use is being planned for and the date when the authorization will expire. In a community practice a pharmacist cannot discuss treatment with anyone unless patient signs authorization. In an institutional practice the patient can call the pharmacist and give permission to talk to a doctor if able to speak. In case of an emergency, such as a heart attack or car accident, the doctor can call the pharmacist to get the information without patient consent. A patient must give a written authorization in a community pharmacy.
To begin, there are numerous advantages throughout the EHR system. Considering this, enhancing patient safety is priority in the healthcare industry. Reminders, alerts, and pop-ups are just a few of the safety features an EHR can provide. These items can prevent medication errors, by alerting a nurse or physician of a blood sugar that is out of range, or a medication with too high of a potency, such as a wrong dosage amount. Reminders can be as simple as an immunization reminder to get a flu shot. Another example could be a drug interaction between NSAIDS such as i...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the aging population will continue to grow due to the falling fertility rates and the increases in life expectancy. However, this population has distinctive, demographic factors that may influence their adherence to medication necessities. Dynamics that affect medication regimen in the elderly can be related to “memory and cognition (forgetting to take medication), dexterity (unable to open medication or break pills in half), low literacy, concern about side effects
Electronic-prescribing, often referred to as e-prescribing, is a fairly new, innovative way for physicians and other medical personnel to prescribe medications and keep track of patients’ medical history. Not only has e-prescribing enabled prescribers to electronically send a prescription to the patients’ pharmacy of choice, in the short amount of time it has been available, it has significantly reduced health care costs, not only for the patient, but for the medical facilities as well. In 2003, e-prescribing was included in the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) which jumpstarted the role of e-prescribing in healthcare. It has proven to significantly reduce the yearly number medication errors and prescription fraud, and its widespread publicity has helped build awareness of e-prescribing’s role in enhancing patient safety. Although it has not been in practice for very long, e-prescribing has already made a positive impact in the field of health care.
Sharing the personal health records with patients has the potential to improve the safety of medication prescribing and trending of physiologic data (e.g. blood pressure, clotting times, blood glucose, and daily weights). Patient portals can serve as personal health records in which health information is preserved over time (Gephart & Effken, 2013). Humana provides great features of patient portal for their members. The patient portal can be viewed on a computer, a smart phone, and a tablet. The members can utilize the portal to order and search medication, find physicians, view existing claims and benefits, and submit requested documents. Using the patient portal makes the members to monitor and manage their health easier than
It is also common that many people who have long-term health conditions can also be susceptible to depression and stress when attempting to deal with the aspects of their illness, such as being reliant on insulin injections or having to take care about what they eat and drink. As explained in an article by W.H Polonsky. (K101, Resources 3, pg19 )
There are many ways to categorize illness and disease; one of the most common is chronic illness. Many chronic illnesses have been related to altered health maintenance hypertension and cardiovascular diseases are associated with diet and stress, deficient in exercise, tobacco use, and obesity (Craven 2009). Some researchers define the chronic illness as diseases which have long duration and generally slow development (WHO 2013); it usually takes 6 month or longer than 6 month, and often for the person's life. It has a sluggish onset and eras of reduction for vanishing the symptoms and exacerbation for reappear the symptoms. Some of chronic illness can be directly life-threatening. Others remain over time and need intensive management, such as diabetes, so chronic illness affects physical, emotional, logical, occupational, social, or spiritual functioning. Chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, all of these diseases are the cause of mortality in the world, representing 63% of all deaths. So a chronic illness can be stressful and may change the way a person l...
The uncertain nature of chronic illness takes many forms, but all are long-term and cannot be cured. The nature of chronic illness raises hesitation. It can disturb anyone, irrespective of demographics or traditions. It fluctuates lives and generates various inquiries for the patient. Chronic illness few clear features involve: long-lasting; can be managed but not cured; impacts quality of life; and contribute to stress. Chronic illnesses can be enigmatic. They often take considerable time to identify, they are imperceptible and often carry a stigma because there is little sympathetic or social support. Many patients receive inconsistent diagnoses at first and treatments deviate on an individual level. Nevertheless, some circumstances require
The biggest failure I can think of when it comes to these systems is that they bring up warning after warning that may or may not be important, so pharmacists or techs stop paying attention to them and dismiss them without knowing what they are. This practice can be ...
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Thank you for you post. Medication error is a serious issue which may affect patients and even cause death. In my hospital, in order to reduce the medication mistakes, except medical record and date of birth, we use the scanner scan the patient’s ID bandage and medication to match the e-MAR. The computer system will notify us any errors. This system helps us to avoid medication errors.