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Considering medication packaging and dispensing during Covid-19

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With PillPack, each month, customers receive a personalized roll of pre-sorted medications, along with a convenient dispenser and any other medications that cannot be placed into packets, like liquids and inhalers. Customers can also email, text, or call their PillPack pharmacist any time to ask questions or clarify instructions."

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Consider Amazon’s role in the caregiving and older adult market

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And this week, it extended its reach into prescription drugs, built on its PillPack acquisition, to create Amazon Pharmacy. . category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Pendent medical alerts evolve – and will disappear

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They then persisted with a Medication dispensing device that has been eclipsed by others, including pharmacy-connected MedMinder and Amazon-owned Pillpack. category tags: PERS , Mobile PERS , wearables, smart watch , fall prevention, fall detection. Mobile and medications matter.

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Technology Can Help Make Medication Management Smarter

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They include PillPack (recently acquired by Amazon) which delivers the packaged medication doses and has an accompanying app to track information about them. PillPack and MedMinder charge just the co-pay medication cost. category tags: medication management.

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Technology to help care for individuals with dementia

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GreatCall Lively Home MedMinder , PillPack Ring Nest. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline. Needs of the Early stage. Tech Categories. Activities of daily living. Motion sensors. Medication reminders. Smart doorbells. Smart thermostats. Smart Speakers. Smartphone assistants. Memory/Stories. Caregiving and Family Support.

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Four technology (health and aging) blog posts from August 2018

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But there were issues, disruptions and sizable opportunities worth noting in August, the biggest one was Best Buy's purchase of GreatCall, just six weeks after Amazon acquired PillPack , the latest big company acquisition -- part of a to-be-continued series important to families and providers of care to seniors. Read more here.

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Best Buy Acquires GreatCall – What’s it Mean for Best Buy?

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To date, none have viewed these capabilities that way, or GreatCall’s price would have been more like Amazon’s $1 billion purchase of PillPack – paying more but getting less. category tags: Mobile PERS , cell phones, smartphones , IoT and home monitoring.