Kathleen Cleary takes a look at tools that help folks keep track of their parents' health from long distance. For checking on their medications, she recommends:

“[MyMedSchedule] provides reminders to take your medicine, schedule refills, and renew prescriptions. This organization offers schedules of medications and dosage amounts for yourself and family members. This eliminates the need to take your pill bottles to medical appointments.”

The Boston Foundation for Sight takes a look at health apps for mobile platforms in this recent article. Their take on MyMedSchedule:

“A scheduling tool that is easy to create, read, and update for maintaining medication schedules. Email or text message reminders can be set as well as refill notifications.”

Read the article here. 

The Caregivers Corner blog endorses the selection of MyMedSchedule as the 2011 Caregiver Friendly Award Winner:

“MyMedSchedule.com is an online program that allows caregivers, patients, or anyone on multiple medications and vitamins to stay organized and remember to take their meds. It allows its users to create, save, print and revise a medication schedule with medication pictures, times-to-take, quantity and purpose. It also offers daily and weekly checklists, large-font size, wallet-size, both in English and Spanish, and reminders to refill medications and take those meds at certain times. MyMedSchedule is also available with iPhone and Android.”

“THIS IS A PROGRAM I HAVE USED MYSELF AND LIKE IT VERY MUCH!” 

 CancerHawk is a blog and resource center devoted to helping cancer patients and their caregivers find useful tools, support groups, and information. It was created by Robyn Stoller after losing her husband to cancer. “My goal is to help anyone touched by cancer find the information they need to make informed choices,” writes Robyn. “Educate... Advocate... Empower.”

In her latest post, Robyn talks about the complex medication regimens faced by many cancer patients, and mentions how MyMedSchedule® can help:

“Wish I had known about MyMedSchedule.com though... a FREE website that allows users to build personalized medication schedules. You enter the information and MyMedSchedule creates a chart to help you remember when to take your medications. And you can even set it up to receive email, text or mobile alerts as well as prescription refill reminders. Really amazing FREE resource to help cancer patients (or any patient for that matter) and their caregivers!!!”

Read the whole post at CancerHawk.com.

Donna Brooten joined Stephen Furst and Lori Hartwell on the Kidney Talk podcast produced by the Renal Support Network:

Remembering what meds to take, at the right time, and making sure you have adequate supply can sometimes be daunting. Donna G. Brooten describes an online medicine management system, MyMedSchedule.com, that will help you stay on track and provides personalized print outs (you can receive text messages too) of your medication regimen. Be on top of your medicine management and dazzle the docs.

Listen to the interview here.

Caregiver.com is pleased to announce that MyMedSchedule.com, a medication organizer and medication reminder program, is a recipient of the 2011 Caregiver Friendly Award.

(PRWEB) June 22, 2011

MyMedSchedule is a recipient of the 2011 Caregiver Friendly Award, recognizing the free online program for its ability to help caregivers and patients with their medication compliance.

The Caregiver Friendly^® Awards are presented by Today’s Caregiver magazine. Today’s Caregiver magazine and caregiver.com, launched in 1995, are published by Caregiver Media Group, which also produces the Fearless Caregiver Conferences.    

“The average caregiver is responsible for over $40,000 in health related expenditures each year, in either personal or directed funds” Says Gary Barg, Today’s Caregiver magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, “This award is designed to help family caregivers recognize and reward those organizations who care for them in as committed a manner as they care for their loved ones.”

Medication schedules include color pictures of pills, times to take them, quantity, and purpose.

MyMedSchedule.com is an online program that allows caregivers, patients, or anyone on multiple medications and vitamins to stay organized and remember to take their meds. It allows its users to create, save, print and revise a medication schedule with medication pictures, times-to-take, quantity and purpose. It also offers daily and weekly checklists, large-font size, wallet-size, both in English and Spanish, and reminders to refill medications and take those meds at certain times. MyMedSchedule is also available with iPhone and Android.

About MedActionPlan

Since 1981, MedActionPlan CEO Tim Peters has specialized in creating innovative health education programs that increase patient understanding. But improving patient awareness is just a start toward improving adherence. In 2005, MedActionPlan introduced the next step: a web-based tool that helps the healthcare provider to quickly create, document and print a personalized medicine schedule—a MedActionPlan—for each patient. In 2007, MyMedSchedule was introduced, allowing patients and caregivers to create their own medication charts and reminders.

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Fab Over 50, a website “where women of substance share their style,” takes a look at MyMedSchedule and the ways it can help prevent medication errors.

The post points out that failure to take medications as directed results in many lives lost and up to $290 billion in additional medical costs per year in the U.S. MyMedSchedule can help solve that problem. The article quotes Dr. Kay Johnston of San Angelo, TX:

 “When I asked my patients what medications they were taking, often they’d refer to a jumble of handwritten notes, or nothing at all. When you’re taking 5-10 different pills, that’s just not a good idea. Now I give new patients the mymedschedule.com web address on a little card, and tell them to go home and use it. Hopefully, they’ll use it, and take the schedule to their other doctors as well.”

Read the whole post at Fab Over 50. 

The April 2011 What’s Next in Health newsletter from Microsoft® promotes MyMedSchedule as an ideal tool to create, save, and print easy-to-understand medication charts and schedules. MyMedSchedule partners with Microsoft HealthVault™ and Google Health to help patients keep a complete medication record. 

Thanks to these partnerships, MyMedSchedule users can import their medications from, or export their complete medication list to these personal health records.

Savvy Senior columnist Jim Miller shows off some fool-proof solutions for keeping track of your medications in this video segment.

“Companies that offer such services include mymedschedule.com, which provides free medication reminders via text message or e-mail. Their website can also help you make easy-to-read medication schedules that you can print out for your mom to follow.”