Medication planner, tracker, reminder

[Netceer]

Name
Terrence Chung

Describe the problem you'd like to solve
It can be difficult to keep track of your prescribed medication, especially if you are taking many different types a day (e.g 5+ pills).

Its easy to lose track of what does what, what it looks like and when you are supposed to take it even if they are in labeled containers.

Those with more complex medication plans are given dosette boxes by their pharmacists to help ensure they are taking the pills correctly.

Dosette boxes are plastic boxes that split up all the months medication into small daily compartments for ease of use.

This definitely helps people take the right medication at the right time but it does not explain what each medication actually does.

I believe that a platform that lets people organise and track all their medications with reminders along with a short description of what it does and what it looks like would be hugely beneficial.

This would help people take ownership of their medications more so they are better informed of what they are taking and are less likely to forget or make mistakes when handling them.

Who are the stakeholders?
People taking medication themselves, carers who are looking after those on more complex prescriptions. It would also help pharmacists if they had to prepare less dosette boxes as they take a huge amount of time to prepare.

What is currently being done to solve this problem?
There are currently many apps out there that let you set reminders to take pills and can give you overviews of the week, and month etc.

Most let you type in whatever you want, only a few actually auto-complete medication names but they were all US based so names of medication are using the US brand names instead of the generic names we are used to here in the UK.

I could not find any that actually held any information on the use of the drug or visual descriptions of them which I think are vital in helping people be more aware of their own prescriptions.

[RihardsJ]

This idea has a great potential to create a noticeable impact for people who take medications!!!

[jessica440]

great idea!

[ephieo]

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[khadija-nur]

Superb idea! 💛

[mhtien]

Great idea! I know so many people what would use this!