[Electronics-talk] recordable medication bottle system

[lauren at catlines.com]

Thanks kaiser uses talking vials that do not fit the bottles and they pile up before i remember to take them all back

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> On Sep 4, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Mike Freeman via Electronics-talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Lauren:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> We blind people don't always need fancy-shmancy ways of doing things.
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> Mike
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Tom Evans via Electronics-talk
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 9:53 AM
> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
> Cc: Tom Evans
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] recordable medication bottle system
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> Lauren,
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> 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.
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> 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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> -----Original Message-----
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> mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lauren Merryfield
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> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 11:00 PM
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> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
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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 from my
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