A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM
Patients often forget to take their medication. Whether it’s symptomatic of a failing memory, or people simply not remembering to fit their medication into a busy daily routine, it’s an issue with big implications for every area of healthcare .
When drugs aren’t taken as prescribed, they become less effective and less likely to deliver the correct treatment. Every year poor medicine compliance wastes up to $290bn in added healthcare costs and causes an estimated 125,000 deaths in the US alone – creating an urgent need for an innovative and effective solution.
So, how do you help patients take their medication at the correct time? And how do you make that process as regular as clockwork?
When drugs aren’t taken as prescribed, they become less effective and less likely to deliver the correct treatment. Every year poor medicine compliance wastes up to $290bn in added healthcare costs and causes an estimated 125,000 deaths in the US alone – creating an urgent need for an innovative and effective solution.
So, how do you help patients take their medication at the correct time? And how do you make that process as regular as clockwork?
The solution: MY HEALTH TAGS
Our ‘Internet of Things’ solution uses cutting-edge screen technology to tell patients when medication is needed. Patients get helpful reminders, while giving their healthcare network vital data to fulfil their caring roles more effectively.
My Health Tags can be easily attached to product packaging and linked to a reminder unit placed centrally in the patient’s home – the tags can even be removed and attached to repeat prescriptions. Both products give clear notifications on vivid displays to help patients remember to take their medication as prescribed – and give warnings to carers and medical professionals if they don’t.
We’re currently undertaking initial clinical studies for My Health Tags with the NHS in Bristol as part of our work for SBRI Healthcare. To find out more, there are videos that overview our solution here. Please email us to be added to our distribution list for information on our latest studies and developments or with any questions.
My Health Tags can be easily attached to product packaging and linked to a reminder unit placed centrally in the patient’s home – the tags can even be removed and attached to repeat prescriptions. Both products give clear notifications on vivid displays to help patients remember to take their medication as prescribed – and give warnings to carers and medical professionals if they don’t.
We’re currently undertaking initial clinical studies for My Health Tags with the NHS in Bristol as part of our work for SBRI Healthcare. To find out more, there are videos that overview our solution here. Please email us to be added to our distribution list for information on our latest studies and developments or with any questions.
THE EVOLUTION: OUR MEDICINE PACKAGING VISION
Folium Optics’ developments continually push the performance barriers of plastic displays. The capabilities, size and cost of electronics and batteries will improve exponentially over time, allowing us to apply our inventive display technology to new and barely imagined applications.
Our vision for My Health Tags is to evolve our reflective plastic screen technology into adhesive labels that can be easily attached to medicine packaging as part of the manufacturing process. Flexible screens bring active information into the real world, at the point of need for the patient.
There are multiple opportunities for Folium Optics to revolutionise the efficiency and effectiveness of prescribed medication – and with easily readable labels and on-device displays providing reminders and sharing data, both patient and healthcare provider will be better off.
See the videos here.
There are multiple opportunities for Folium Optics to revolutionise the efficiency and effectiveness of prescribed medication – and with easily readable labels and on-device displays providing reminders and sharing data, both patient and healthcare provider will be better off.
See the videos here.
