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Electronic Medicine Schedules: A New Way To Remember To Take Your Medicine

by CRoss 30. April 2010 15:10

Why an electronic medicine schedule can help remind you to take your medication. Make it easy for yourself by reminding yourself via text messaging and email, learn free ways to utilize this technology. 

To find a free medication chart scheduling services and reminding services via text and email go to http://www.mymedschedule.com.

With advancements in technology and healthcare, there are also advancements in the way medication and treatment is administered to patients. The whole world is connected these days, and no matter what your age, you are probably connected in some way to others. Diabetics have electronic meters that can tell them their blood sugar with the press of a button. Medical and dental records can be sent over the internet is people move or want to change doctors. There is also an easier way to remember to take your medication.

If you’re a young person that has a disease, it might be hard for you to feel like a “normal” person sometimes. You have to remember what medicines to take and when to take them, and sometimes they can conflict with your plans as a kid or teenager. What if there was an easier way? By creating an electronic medicine schedule, you can be reminded to take your medications with a simple beep on your cell phone. You can discreetly carry the medicine you need in your purse or car, and when your phone goes off, no one will be able to tell whether you’re getting a text message or a reminder to take your meds.

Electronic medicine schedules can be set up on the internet. You can print out a paper schedule if you’re not always by a computer. If you need some help filling out your schedule, you can take it to your local doctor and work together to create a schedule that works for you. Most electronic medicine schedule websites allow you to utilize all the popular social media outlets to keep you healthy. You can join groups on Facebook and Twitter that can give you helpful links about the latest in medical technology and how to stay well.

Even if you only have one medication to take daily, it could be an important one, such as birth control. A daily reminder on your phone or computer will help you to remember to take it. Maybe you work in an office and spend the whole day on the computer. If you have an e-mail reminder that pops up midday, you’ll remember to take your pills, even if you’re up to your eyebrows in important paperwork.

If you’re a caretaker or you have a relative who isn’t into technology, you can create a schedule for them to help them remember to take their medicine. Even if you’re the one creating the schedule, a simple landline call to grandma or grandpa could help them remember to take their medication.

Electronic medicine schedules are all about what works for you. You can choose to be reminded by e-mail, text, or print out your schedule. You can get it in a number of different languages. Some schedules even allow you to post a picture of what particular pills look like, so you won’t confuse any of your medications. With a number of options, electronic medicine schedules are a great way to stay well.

Med-OK-tion

by DBrooten 26. April 2010 15:36
Taking more than 1 type of medication? Confused about how much, of which color, at what time? If so, you or your caretaker, must listen carefully.

TryThisTip.com also says MyMedSchedule is a “fabulous FREE organizational tool for recording and updating all information relating to the administration of medication.” View the whole post.

I found MyMedSchedule.com to be the most important reminder tool that I can use

by DBrooten 1. April 2010 09:45

“As a new kidney transplant recipient, I found MyMedSchedule.com to be the most important reminder tool that I can use to adhere to my doctor-prescribed medication schedule. It is now my duty to follow my doctor’s orders to the letter if I want to keep my new kidney from rejecting. By having the assistance of a well organized printed schedule, I can follow it to the letter.”

—Jeffrey P. Lerer
San Ramon, CA.

MyMedSchedule Goes Camping

by DBrooten 1. April 2010 09:28
Camp Twin Lakes is an Atlanta, GA based network of camps providing life-changing programs for kids with serious illnesses, disabilities and other challenges. We're happy to hear that MyMedSchedule helps fulfill that mission. Nyleta Wallace, Director of New Camp Programs, says “I have been using MyMedSchedule for our campers for several years and cannot thank you enough! It is a blessing to our camp people!”