RememberItNow! eHealth service facilitates clinical trial management and makes it easier for trial participants to stick to a medication schedule and report on wellness.
Orinda, CA - RememberItNow! LLC announced today a complimentary version of their eHealth service to qualified non-profit patient studies.
RememberItNow’s patient-centric eHealth service makes it very easy for participants to setup and receive medication reminders on their cell phone, track their wellness and health statistics, and maintain a personal health record.
Clinical trial administrators can use RememberItNow! to collect participants’ medical history, improve communication, and increase medication compliance among patients.
“Taking medications correctly is a challenge for all patients”, notes Pam Swingley. CEO of RememberItNow! “It’s so easy to forget a pill and become confused on what, when and how to take medications…While it’s important for everyone to stay on top of their medication schedule, it’s especially critical during a clinical trial. By making RememberItNow! affordable to non-profit clinical trial programs we can help them manage their programs, improve compliance, and have a better outcome.” (more…)
As some of you may have read earlier, we are now updating RememberItNow! with some fun gaming elements. We want to make it as fun as possible to take control of your health. What better way to do that than to play cool games with your RememberItNow! elephant?
However, to introduce these new gaming elements our elephant needs to be animated so he can do cool tricks for you. So, we posted a form on CrowdSpring asking for a new illustration want to share our favorite with you. Take a look:
Possible New Elephant
Or do you like our current elephant and prefer our homepage to stay the same?
Current Elephant
If we use the new elephant, we will use him everywhere – including the homepage. Since this decision is really important, we want you to have the first say.
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We have some exciting updates! Our clever software developers have recently integrated a really cool Journal Sharing feature into RememberItNow!
Now whenever you write a journal entry you have the option of sharing it with all your friends, family, and more on Facebook, or with your RememberItNow! health team. How cool is that?!
The next time you reach a health goal and want to share your excitement, you really can. If you track fitness activities in your Wellness Journal, you can invite friends to join you. All you have to do is write an entry about it and simply click the Facebook icon (circled in red below), and you’re ready to share! See the example below:
Are you and your siblings taking care of a parent? If you’re interested in splitting up care giving duties with the rest of them, write a Journal entry and send out a message to all of them through the email sharing option.
Or if you aren’t feeling well and could use some cheering up, share it! Maybe you have a lot of health contacts and helpers. Now you can send out a quick email to all of them instead of doing it one at a time.
The possibilities are endless. Learn more about how to use these features here.
Most adults need six to eight hours of sleep, but as people get older they don’t sleep as well. Sleep problems in the elderly are a result of several factors. Seniors do not spend as much time in deep sleep.
They are easily woken by the slightest noise, and cannot fall back asleep. Frequent trips to the bathroom, and long naps during the day can keep them awake as well. Although naps feel great and are a great way to deal with boredom, they interfere with a good nights sleep.
Poor sleep patterns can lead to health problems in the elderly. Seniors that do not sleep well are more likely to get sick, be exhausted, be grumpy, have memory problems and experience a flare up of chronic health problems. (more…)
As we all know, managing your medication is no fun. Or as our CEO, Pam Swingley’s father likes to say, “taking your pills is no thrill”. But what if software actually could make it a bit more fun - and you could get encouragement from your friends to remember your medicine and improve your health?
If you haven’t noticed already, websites and software solutions have been becoming more “fun”. For example if you compare the personal finance tool, Quicken from the 1990’s, to Mint.com of today, you’ll notice their differences. Mint contains more pleasing attributes – esthetically and in its usability. Quicken is…well, a bit boring. After Mint came along most of us were surprised managing finances was a little fun and easier than expected.
Our goal is to make taking control of your health a little fun too. There is no rule that says it should feel like a chore. Besides, if RememberItNow! can make it as easy and fun as possible to take your medications, you’ll learn to remember them and improve your health!
We agree with Jonathan Richman of DigitalDose.com, who plainly states, “Humans learn by playing…Somewhere along the way though, we stop playing and stop learning.”
With that in mind, our crafty product development folks are working on a point system to reward you for your steps toward good health. We want to make RememberItNow! really engaging, and can only make it close to perfect with your feedback.
So, please share what kind of game incentives you’d like to see. Or maybe you’d just like to share your thoughts on adding social media and gaming elements to RememberItNow! Do you have some creative insight you’d like to contribute? Please do! We’re listening.
Medication reminders, who needs ‘em? Well, when two-thirds of Americans currently use some form of medicine, (49 percent use prescription drugs and 30 percent use nonprescription medications), reminders aren’t such a bad idea.
In fact they should be the solution we should all focus on when the number one problem for treating illness today is because of patient noncompliance, at every age. In order to fix this problem, medication reminders have become more technologically advanced. Some of the latest innovations include the Tattletale Pill, the MagneTrace necklace , Pill Pets, and various smartphone medication reminder applications.
1. The Tattetale Pill
Its name gives away its most basic function; it tells on you when you forget your pills. Caregivers, family, friends, and anyone else helping you manage your health are alerted when a dose is missed. How is this possible? The Tattletale Pill is not necessarily a pill, but a capsule that contains tiny digestible antennas and a microchip the size of a period.
Sounds like a seamless solution right? There are still a few catches. The user must wear a small electronic device which signals a cell phone or laptop and powers the pill through faint bursts of extremely low-voltage electricity. As time passes, the antenna breaks down from the user’s stomach acid, and the microchip is passed along out of the digestive system. (more…)
John Mills, founder of eCareDiary.com, and RememberItNow! founder, Pam Swingley, have a lot in common. Both had fathers with ailing health and could not find online solutions to help make care giving easier.
Just as Pam decided to take matters into her own hands by creating RememberItNow! software, John decided to develop in an informative care giving website, and founded eCareDiary.com.
Instead of specializing in medication reminders and eHealth like RememberItNow!, eCareDiary is different because it focuses on long-term care by providing comprehensive care giving and health information, resources, and tools, like the Care Diary.
The Care Diary is used to coordinate care share information between family and caregivers, similar to the RememberItNow! Wellness journal. Both of these features demonstrate a need for improved communication among family members and health teams. Both also help ensure peace of mind.
eCare Diary also has a comprehensive database of nursing home and home care services, guides on long term care financing and information on important health care documents.
By getting the word out about eCare Diary we hope care giving becomes easier and families have less to worry about. Below is a snapshot of what the eCare diary looks like.
Hooray! ”Forgetting Your Medication - 5 Surprising Facts” to the Voluntary Benefits Magazine, was featured by Voluntary Benefits Magazine.
Pam Swingley, our CEO discusses medication noncompliance in the workforce. It’s a bigger problem than we realize and is costing our country billions of dollars. Most of this financial burden is carried by employers who provide health insurance and benefits.
Read Pam’s article here, and discover the shocking costs of forgetting your pills, the new priorities in employee health objectives, the solutions in mobile health, and what to look for in a medication reminder service.
If you would like to contribute to this discussion, please do so! Let us know what you think about the future of health care and medication management.
When we get older our eating habits change and we sometimes lose our appetite. This can lead to under-nutrition and too much weight loss.
Luckily there are ways to help. Check out this Prezi below on appetite loss and learn about the three most successful strategies to get your loved one’s eating habits back on track:
Whether you are caring for someone who has Alzheimer’s or have been diagnosed yourself, Alzheimer’s from the Inside Out, will enrich your knowledge and help you to understand how an Alzheimer’s patient sees and thinks about things.
The author, Richard Taylor was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at age 61. A former psychologist, Richard courageously shares an account of his slow transformation and deterioration and the growing division between his world and the world of others.
With poignant clarity, candor, and even occasional humor, more than 80 brief essays address difficult issues faced by those with Alzheimer’s disease, including:
* the loss of independence and personhood
* unwanted personality shifts
* communication difficulties
* changes in relationships with loved ones and friends
* the declining ability to perform familiar tasks
This rare, insightful exploration into the world of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease is a captivating read for anyone affected personally or professionally by the devastating disease. The writings reinforce the fact that there IS someone inside a person with dementia, a human being first and foremost, that deserves to be treated respectfully and is worth the trouble of doing what it takes to communicate with effectively.
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