A NEW smart device app has been created to assist people with limited vision to increase their knowledge of drugs they are taking.
The "Our Pills Talk Medication Safety App" can read prescription labels out loud and also translate labels into a patient's preferred language, thereby helping anyone with any communication difficulty.
This can include patients who are visually impaired, dyslexic, autistic, elderly, ESL patients and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
The app was developed by pharmacists Steve Cohen, who said the Our Pills Talk Medication Safety App was designed to "fill an unfortunate void in our world" to support the disadvantaged by speaking out to them that they are taking the correct medicines.
The free app can be downloaded onto a patient's smartphone, with the pharmacist generating a personalised QR barcode on the prescription label.
The code is scanned using the phone, with the app then automatically converting the prescription information and instructions from text to speech.
The app also provides an alarm facility for patient reminders - more info at ourpillstalk.com.au.
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