New software could help people with multiple prescriptions

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With $25000 in VentureLab funding from the Georgia Research Alliance Dr. Kent Guion associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Allied Health Sciences is working with an independent consultant to test and market a program that allows patient ...
With $25,000 in VentureLab funding from the Georgia Research Alliance, Dr. Kent Guion, associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Allied Health Sciences, is working with an independent consultant to test and market a program that allows patients to print out a "calendar-type" listing of their current medications. The goal is to help them remember often-complicated prescription schedules. Credit: Medical College of Georgia

Multiple prescriptions can be confusing: knowing which pill is which, when to take what medication and what pills have special instructions.


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