Pharmacy Times Highlights OnCellRx.com Cellphone Medication Reminders

In “Strategies and Tools for Promoting Medication Adherence”, Pharmacy Times highlighted the OnCellRx.com cell phone medication reminder system as a “personalized voice and e-mail medication reminder service“.  Ameliatek’s sister product OnTimeRx.com for PDAs and smartphones was also recognized as an “advanced” dosing alarm.

Pharmacy Times recognized the serious threat medication adherence failure poses to patients:

Medications work only when patients take them as prescribed. Unfortunately, patients very often skip doses or take them at the wrong time. Nonadherence rates averaged 71% and ranged as high as 97% in >70 studies where patients’ dose taking was monitored electronically. Similarly, a review of 14 studies of patients’ dose timing showed that <41% of people consistently self-administered prescription drugs on the schedule set by their prescriber.Elderly patients and those with serious psychological problems (the very patients who are most at risk for suffering adverse consequences from poor medication adherence) are particularly likely not to follow dosing instructions.

and listed the 3 most common reasons people need medication reminders to help them taking their medications properly:

They are taking several different medications and multiple doses per day

They must refill prescriptions frequently

They have trouble affording their drugs

as well as the most common solutions proposed to help people improve their compliance:

• Simplify drug regimens
• Arrange for longer, 90-day supplies of medications
• Suggest substitutions of lowercost therapeutic equivalents for expensive brand name products
• Educate patients about how their medications work
• Instruct patients on how to administer doses
• Follow up with patients on whether they are using their drugs and whether they are experiencing any problems

OnCellRx.com is the only advanced, cell-phone and pager medication reminder service included in the comprehensive review of products to improve patient compliance and adherence. Our complete web-based management console, which enables you to manage your medication reminders easily and without any forms, approvals, or paperwork, instantly and immediately from anywhere on the Internet, makes OnCellRx the clear choice for remote medication compliance prompting.