Week 5

Clear Rx Medication System

One day, Deborah’s grandmother took her grandfather’s medicine by mistake. Her name was Helen. His was Herman. Same initial – H Adler – and the pill bottles looked alike.

This incident resulted in the ClearRx System for Target. From the color-coded rings to identify each family member to the intuitive and easy-to-read label, ClearRx is designed for people who take prescription medication.

http://www.adlerdesign.com/project/clear-rx-medication-system/

Telemedicine

Telemedicine is the remote delivery of healthcare services, such as health assessments or consultations, over the telecommunications infrastructure. It allows healthcare providers to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients without the need for an in-person visit.

Telemedicine was originally created as a way to treat patients who were located in remote places, far away from local health facilities or in areas of with shortages of medical professionals. While telemedicine is still used today to address these problems, it’s increasingly becoming a tool for convenient medical care. Today’s connected patient wants to waste less time in the waiting room at the doctor, and get immediate care for minor but urgent conditions when they need it.

This expectation for more convenient care, combined with the unavailability of many overburdened medical professionals (especially primary care providers) have led to the rise of telemedicine companies. Many offer patients 24/7 access to medical care with an on-call doctor contracted by that company. Others offer hospitals and larger health centers access to extra clinical staff and specialists, for outsourcing of special cases (common model among teleradiology companies). Still others provide a telemedicine platform for physicians to use to offer virtual visits with their own patients. Increasingly, telemedicine is becoming a way to give medical practices an edge in a competitive healthcare landscape where it’s difficult to stay independent or maintain a healthy bottom line.

Also impacting the rise of telemedicine today is the growing mobile health field. With the wide variety of mobile health apps and new mobile medical devices that are consumer-friendly, patients are starting to use technology to monitor and track their health. Simple home-use medical devices that can take vitals and diagnose ear infections, monitor glucose levels, or measure blood pressure let patients gather needed medical information for a doctor’s diagnosis, without going into the doctor’s office. And again, as more patients get proactive about using technology to manage their health, they also will be more open to alternative ways to get care – through telemedicine!

https://evisit.com/what-is-telemedicine/


Brainstorm



Re drawing storyboard 1



Redrawing storyboard 2

New name ideas:

• Medentify
• Medify
• Ready medi
• Medicate
• Meducate
• Dr dose
• Dosed 

Script draft:

For most of us medications are part of our everyday routine. As we grow older the number of pills we take often increases. More than half of seniors take at least 5 medications a day

When medications become more complicated life gets harder for people taking them. It can be too confusing to manage them alone and too important to not get right. Missing or over dosing pills can lead to serious health problems.

Put your mind at ease with medentify, your certified personal medical adviser

Medentify has the ability to recognise your medication and show you when and how each one should be taken

Simply scan your medication bottles and let medentify do the rest

If you’re unsure which medication to take, medentify will locate the ones you need today and ask you to match them to the picture.

You will be shown when and how to take them and medentify will tick them off your daily schedule

You can then tap on each medication to see a health progress bar. It shows you how your health is improving with the medication and additional steps you can take to speed up your recovery

New Interface:

New Storyboard: