PillsPlan
Have you ever forgotten to take your medication? Not taking the pills can lead to dangerous consequences, and so you need to take them just in time. Sounds simple, but there are many individuals who need to take a lot of drugs every single day.
Every year the number of people who must take medicine for longer time period increases. Today, every fourth person has some medicine or vitamins prescribed, which affects his daily regime. It’s not an easy task to remember all the information about the number of pills, way or time of consumption. This can negatively affect effectiveness of the medication and, in the worse cases, even put one’s life in danger.
Thanks to our research we have found out that more than 70% of asked people would welcome the opportunity of having an app which would remind them when to take their drugs, since only ¼ of the asked had never forgotten about them.
Pillsplan is not only for ill people or people who forget a lot, but also for doctors, who want to store information about their patients in one place. Even though this app helps to remind people to take their medicine, this app isn’t only an alarm. It contains many important and helpful functions such as notifications, number of pills remaining in one package, history of drugs taken by the user, contraindications and even remind the patient his next doctor’s appointment. The customer will be informed about expiration of his medication, as the chemicals in the drugs may hurt the person if used after the expiry date. Our app has the ability to inform where the closest drugstore is and can even provide the import for an ill patient who might not be able to get up and buy the medicine by himself.
Apart from other similar apps, we provide a very simple way of adding information into the application, the user doesn’t have to set up anything, all that he must do is to scan his prescription paper from his doctor. Similar apps which have millions of downloads provide only notifications with the medications’ names. Most of them are in English and that can cause problems for the patient, as it might be hard even in his mother tongue to understand the information written about his drug.
In the future our plan is to cooperate with drugstores, which we would recommend to our customers and that would make a great advertisement for the cooperating drugstores. It may even become possible to buy the medicine with our application. By working with the drugstores, people will be able to get their medication without waiting, as the drugs will be prepared for them in the drugstore right after the app notifies its user that he ran out of the medicine.
The last thing a sick patient wants to do, is to walk to the drug store, just to buy his medication. Therefore, we would like to provide a delivery service for our users and help them recover quicker. Thus, this app will be able to save lives and make staying healthy easier.