Digital Therapeutics are electronic healthcare products that help patients manage their disease or condition on their own. These products are especially valuable to vulnerable populations in rural communities and those who have limited access to healthcare. Prescription adherence is an ongoing concern within healthcare. Patients failing to properly adhere to their prescribed treatment significant reduces the likelyhood of a positive health outcome.Initial research determined that patients have little interest in listening to the adverse reactions of their prescriptions and have difficulty following their prescriptions correctly. It has been estimated that as much as 50% of patients do not take their prescriptions correctly. In many situations different doctors do not have access to a patients’ current prescriptions if prescribed by another doctor and pharmacists don’t always have an accurate understanding of current prescriptions a patient is taking if they are filled by multiple pharmacies to look out for drug-drug interactions.
To develop a MVP AR product that allows patients to view details about their prescription and recommended dose by scanning the prescription bottle.
Continue to develop product into a larger AI-powered prescription management product that helps the patient keep track of their prescriptions, allows them to share current prescriptions with their doctor and pharmacy as well as sending reminders to the patient when it is time to take a specific prescription. This product will also have the capability to notify the patient of any potentially harmful drug-drug interactions that can arise from taking certain prescriptions together.
When a new prescription is filled, two stickers are printed. The first is the standard sticker with prescription specific information. This sticker is wrapped around the bottle and includes information on who the prescription is for, how many pills are in the bottle, number of refills as well as warnings and precautions associated with the medication prescribed. The second sticker functions similarly to a QR code and contains all of the aforementioned information as well as a 3D image of the medication so the patient can visually confirm that the information being described matches the medication in the bottle.
