The September/October edition of the Saturday Evening Post includes Keep Treatment on Track: Medication Management Goes High-Tech, an article by Jennifer Fink about patients using cost effective tools like MyMedSchedule to help improve their health.

The story introduces Greg Duggins, a 55 year old liver transplant patient and describes the difficulty of maintaining a complex medication schedule. That's where MyMedSchedule comes in:

Duggins uses a free system called MyMedSchedule.com, which includes an online list of his meds (with pictures) and text message reminders sent directly to his cell phone. “I didn’t know a multivitamin from a steroid,” Duggins says. “The list the nurses gave me had brand names, but the stuff I had was in generic names. MyMedSchedule literally held my hand until I understood what drug was what.”

Duggins shared his user name and password with his sister, Linda, just in case. “That way, if anything happens to me, she knows what drugs I’m supposed to be taking,” Duggins says. He can also print out reports to share with his health care providers.

We'll add a link to the story when it is added to the Post‘s website. In the meantime, you can read the portion about MyMedSchedule here (PDF).