[Electronics-talk] [EXTERNAL] Re: recordable medication bottle system

Baracco, Andrew W Andrew.Baracco at va.gov
Fri Sep 4 18:12:45 UTC 2015


I use the CVS system as well, and it's neat because it's what my
employer's health plan uses.

Andy


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Keep in mind.  Not all pharmacies are participating.  Despite the law.
So Lauren come up with alternatives.  The ones that have been given are
good.

Vince

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>I use Envision america's prescription device. It's great, but through
CVS, 
>I
> have to mail order my prescriptions.
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> Lauren:
>
>
>
> The outfit is Envision America; just Google that in quotes and I'd bet
you
> get to it in the first result. But I dare say it's
> http://envisionamerica.com <http://envisionamerica.com/> . There is an

> audio
> gizmo for each medication bottle and the pharmacist uses another
gadget to
> record the prescription info on the bottles. Some pharmacies and
chains 
> use
> it; some don't.
>
>
>
> If no one in your area uses the system, why not use a slate or
dymowriter 
> to
> put dymo labels with prescription number on the bottles and just take
a
> digital recorder of some sort to the pharmacy and have the pharmacist
read
> the prescription info uncluding number for each prescription into the
> recorder? You could also use  a PenFriend to do the same.
>
>
>
> We blind people don't always need fancy-shmancy ways of doing things.
>
>
>
> Mike
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>
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> Behalf Of Tom Evans via Electronics-talk
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> Lauren,
>
> Maybe a partial answer for you or others.  I am with Kaiser and the
> pharmacist just spoke the directions etc, kind of cool.  The point is
many
> times companies have things, yet nobody knows about it, so they 
> discontinue,
> because nobody used it, because nobody knew it was there.
>
> Now it looks like the Kaiser does not have it.  It was like a little 
> battery
> pack, attached to a medicine bottle, with a push button, nothing to
buy.
>
> That does not answer your specific question, just a little extra
thought,
> tom
>
>
>
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> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 11:00 PM
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> Cc: Lauren Merryfield
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> Subject: [Electronics-talk] recordable medication bottle system
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>
>
>
> Hi, What is the name of the company, and its website, who make a
system 
> that
> the blind person keeps with them at home, that they bring into the 
> pharmacy
> to have their medication bottle info recorded onto it? Can more than
one
> prescription be recorded if someone picks up more than one medication?
or
> does it just record one bottle's info at a time? thanks, LaurenSent
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