Interactive Rx Bottles Concept Design - Critique sought

[jrbaldwin]

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I'm an interactive designer at Parsons, currently in graduate school, doing research on improving the functionality and addressing the issues of prescription medications.

Here is the link to my current work:
http://www.jrbaldwin.com/smartrx/

Main concepts:

• Ad Hoc Wireless Mesh Networked Bottles notify of nearby bad drug interactions with other prescriptions
• Expired Medication & Bad Temperature (too hot/too cold) Alerts
• Dosage Reminder
• Electromagnetic Induction Rx Bottle charging (can line the bottom of a medicine cabinet)
• E-Ink Interactive Display (uses very little energy, displays up-to-date information)

As I am not a pharmacist, I am seeking critique and advice on this concept design. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

 

[type b pharmD]

This is ballin . Will give more feedback later. Have you done any cost or pricing/profitability models yet or is it purely theoretical at this time ?

 

[jrbaldwin]

This is theoretical at the moment, but I am building a prototype soon to begin user testing.

 

[spacecowgirl]

I'm a bit concerned about the drug interaction thing. People take meds that theoretically interact all the time. I have to acknowledge probably 2-3 interaction alerts (not to mention food, preg/lact alerts) on each med. Sometimes patients have a weird way of interpreting these interactions. I would leave that out. Like all the other features though :up:

 

[Old Timer]

I'm a bit concerned about the drug interaction thing. People take meds that theoretically interact all the time. I have to acknowledge probably 2-3 interaction alerts (not to mention food, preg/lact alerts) on each med. Sometimes patients have a weird way of interpreting these interactions. I would leave that out. Like all the other features though :up:

Eespecially when the wife's diltiazem interacts with the husband's simvastatin

 

[nnguyenc]

the designer of the target bottle came to my school for forum topic

they patented the idea already

but i know many pharmacist at target hate the design

 

[DRxUGS]

Could these be made cheap enough to use in place of other vials?
Are they intended to be disposable?

I don't know about other states, but it's illegal to refill a patient's medication into his/her previous vial, so reusing this vial would be out, as far as my state is concerned.

 

[Ackj]

I'm a bit concerned about the drug interaction thing. People take meds that theoretically interact all the time. I have to acknowledge probably 2-3 interaction alerts (not to mention food, preg/lact alerts) on each med. Sometimes patients have a weird way of interpreting these interactions. I would leave that out. Like all the other features though :up:

Yeah, people with depression and other psych problems may very well be on multiple meds that theoretically interact, are therapeutic duplications, cause serotonin syndrome 🙂rolleyes🙂 etc.

I do like the concept though. Maybe even a warning that tells you to eat/wait to take if you have eaten.

 

[Ackj]

Could these be made cheap enough to use in place of other vials?
Are they intended to be disposable?

I don't know about other states, but it's illegal to refill a patient's medication into his/her previous vial, so reusing this vial would be out, as far as my state is concerned.

That's the big concern, vials are pretty cheap for most pharmacies, I have no idea how you'd get this much technology to be so inexpensive. NY also has that law you've mentioned.

Maybe it could be a pillbox/mediset system rather than a vial? Pharmacy still dispenses it, but then you could fill this system with the pills when you got home. It could even have a MAR so it could tell you how to fill it.

 

[ethyl]

I'm an interactive designer at Parsons, currently in graduate school, doing research on improving the functionality and addressing the issues of prescription medications.

Here is the link to my current work:
http://www.jrbaldwin.com/smartrx/

Main concepts:

• Ad Hoc Wireless Mesh Networked Bottles notify of nearby bad drug interactions with other prescriptions
• Expired Medication & Bad Temperature (too hot/too cold) Alerts
• Dosage Reminder
• Electromagnetic Induction Rx Bottle charging (can line the bottom of a medicine cabinet)
• E-Ink Interactive Display (uses very little energy, displays up-to-date information)

As I am not a pharmacist, I am seeking critique and advice on this concept design. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Some of these applications would have use in a hospital setting if they were inexpensive. It would be great for unit dosed drugs to show some type of notification when they're in proximity of a same-name or look-alike drug... or when a very expensive IV med has been out of the fridge for too long or was accidentally refrigerated. Dosage reminders would be useful for nurses and pharmacy.

 

[rxlea]

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