[Nj-diabetes-division] Fw: [leadership] ACB Reaches Settlement Agreement withCVS.COMfor"Talking" Prescription Labels

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-----Original Message----- 
From: ottilie at verizon.net
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 9:04 AM
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Subject: Fw: [leadership] ACB Reaches Settlement Agreement 
withCVS.COMfor"Talking" Prescription Labels

More information on prescription labeling


-----Original Message----- 
From: Annette Carter
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:48 PM
To: Bob Hachey ; Leadership at acb.org
Subject: Re: [leadership] ACB Reaches Settlement Agreement with
CVS.COMfor"Talking" Prescription Labels

Hi Bob.
I join you in congratulating those involved in the great work of the
structured negotiations.  You asked the question: "How can we also get
deaf-blind folks covered?".  I have a couple of suggestions.
First, I suggest that everyone, no matter what their vision and hearing,
should have handy the "Best Practices for Making Prescription Drug Container
Label Information Accessible to Persons Who are Blind or Visually-Impaired
or Who are Elderly" found at http://acb.org/node/1427 to refer to
pharmacists.  Although some pharmacies refuse to accommodate, there are also
some that have no idea how to accommodate and that document may help.

Next, I have been working with Deaf-Blind adults as an SSP, support service
provider, since 2002.  I happened to talk with a representative from
En-Vision America the other day regarding the new large print option they
have for accessing prescription container label information.  It is part of
the suite of options that are called ScripAbility, one system, multiple
solutions.  It includes audible, braille and large print.  You can read more
about it at http://www.envisionamerica.com/products/scripability/.  They are
not the only ones that produce braille for prescription labels, Express
Scripts being another.  Of course those with dual sensory loss are very
varied and have very different needs. In my discussion with the En-Vision
America representative about solutions for those with both vision and
hearing loss, she mentioned that even those that are Deaf could use
ScripTalk, connecting it to their computer or iPhone to access the
information.  That way, they would access it whatever way they access their
computer, whether with magnification, screen reader or braille display.

Annette
-----Original Message----- 
From: Bob Hachey
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 6:29 PM
To: Leadership at acb.org
Subject: Re: [leadership] ACB Reaches Settlement Agreement with CVS.COMfor
"Talking" Prescription Labels

Hi Ray and all,
Firstly, more great work by ACB in advocating for this agreement with CVS
online pharmacy.
Secondly, Ray mentioned customers who choose to pick up their scripts at
their local CVS. How can we also get deaf-blind folks covered?
Today,  I was teaching a social director at a facility for the deaf to
produce simple Braille documents and she asked for my assistance in creating
Braille prescription labels for a couple of deaf-blind consumers. I was
happy to create these labels, but we really need to be sure that pharmacies
are creating Braille labels for blind persons who are also deaf or hard of
hearing.
Bob Hachey

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