“The idea came to me when a relative who was taking multiple medications for asthma came to stay with me,” says Dr. W. Kent Guion, associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Allied Health Sciences. “She was often confused about which pills she had to take in the morning and which pills she had to take at night. Many of her medications also looked the same and it was easy for her to get one confused with the other.”
“The printout also shows warnings about similar-looking pills to protect patients from taking the wrong medication,” he says.
The computer program interfaces with computer software at major pharmacies.
“The idea is that pharmacists won’t have to do any extra work,” Dr. Guion says. “When the prescription comes in, they can scan it and the calendar printout will automatically generate. It won’t require any extra keystrokes.”
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