The device is being used in New Jersey and was developed with help from Rutgers-Camden...my alma mater! Go Scarlet Knights!!!!
Here are a few excerpts from the article:
"The Medi-Sure Dispensing System is about the size of a DVD player and is programmed by a pharmacist, who puts medications in cassettes that hold two weeks work of medicine. The pharmacist also programs what times each dose is to be taken and instructions for each medication, such as whether or not the medicine should be taken with food or water....
Then, in the patient's home, the Medi-Sure Dispensing System alerts the patient that it's time to take their medicine through a verbal recording, and will keep alerting the patient until he or she presses the "Get Dose" button. The machine then dispenses the pills into a drawer that, once removed, tells the patient any specific instructions about that medicine. When the drawer is returned, the Medi-Sure Dispensing System records the time that the medicine was taken, and creates a log that can be accessed electronically by a health care provider and any family members who have been given permission to view the log. The log also includes crucial information about the medications, from the dosage to what the pills look like since generic version of a medicine can look completely different than the brand-name version....
The entire service, which includes hardware, software, reports, and a fee to fill the cassettes, costs about $4 per day - less per month than most in-home nursing visits."
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