Medication Related

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Hardware:

  • Manage My Pills: A countertop appliance from Philips that reminds someone to take pills and delivers the correct dosage like a vending machine.
  • AdhereTech: Smart pill bottles
  • Glowcaps: Smart pill bottle lids. Acquired by NantHealth.
  • Proteus Biomed: Wearable and ingestible sensors that gather information about medication-taking, activity and rest patterns. Heavily venture funded.


Web-based

  • Allazo Health: Analytics for medication non-adherence for health insurers and Pharmacy Benefit Management companies (PBMs). Uses existing member data to anticipate medication non-adherence and predict intervention strategy.
  • PictureRx: Pictorial, simple instructions and reminders for patients to take medicines correctly. Founded by an MD at Vanderbilt.
  • NLM's Pillbox: Guided identification of unknown solid-dosage medications based on physical characteristics and high-resolution images. Have API, Data download and images (soon) available. Open source, based on data derived from drug labels submitted to FDA by drug manufacturers and NLM's RxNorm.
  • [www.healthfinch.com HealthFinch]: Optimizes Rx renewal requests. _Only_ works with Allscripts Enterprise currently.

Apps:

  • RxMindMe: Seemingly defunct app for medication reminders. The site is perpetually down so here is the iTunes Link
  • PillBoxie: Virtual pillbox on smartphone to help remind and organize the real one.
  • Nightingale: Started by MIT dropout Thiel Fellow.
  • RxNetwork: Smartphone app + website for med adherence, reminders.
  • ID My Pill: Identify medications by taking a picture of them from your smartphone.
  • Mango Health: App to log meds, get reminder, interaction alerts, and adherence rewards
  • MedWatcher: Tracks the side effects of drugs, vaccines, and medical devices through user reports and social media