RxCalendar - A "meaningful use" Health Information Technology so powerful it's reshaping an entire industry - Not taking medications correctly = $290 billion per year.

The RxCalendar - Automated Medication Calendar is a patent pending calendar-formatted medication instruction sheet. Produced by a patient's prescription, it bears icons of the medication the patient is to take, overlayed on a calendar grid to indicate the days on which the patient is to take it.

The RxCalendar is an application for producing a calendar format medication instruction sheet. It includes a software application that interfaces with the pharmacy's existing prescription system. When the RxCalendar interacts with the computer prescription system by entering the prescription information and pressing a "Fill Prescription" button on the graphical user interface screen, that same act causes the RxCalendar application to obtain the prescription information from the prescription system and use it to produce (e.g., to print) a calendar format sheet to which a patient can refer to more readily understand the medication instructions. The sheet can be used by the patient to supplement conventional materials, e.g., medication container bearing a conventional instruction label.

The prescription information, including information identifying the one or more medications that the patient is to take, and information indicating when the patient is to take each medication, is translated into graphical depictions that are overlaid on the calendar grid. Thus, a graphical depiction identifying a medication is placed within each day on the calendar on which the patient is to take that medication. Additional graphical depictions overlaid on the calendar grid in this manner can include the time of day at which the patient is take the medication and how the patient is to take the medication. The graphical depictions include icons or actual photographic images.

In filling a prescription for medications, a pharmacist typically enters the information from the prescription into a computer-based prescription system. The system aids the pharmacist in filling the prescription, i.e., dispensing the medications, and prints a label to be affixed to the medication container. The label generally includes instructions directing the patient when to take the medications and how to take the medications. For example, a patient may be directed to take a specified pill twice daily for seven days and to take the pill orally with water and a meal.

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Low health literacy has been shown to lead to inaccurately or incompletely following prescriptions for medication. One solution to the issue is to bridge the communication gap with visual aids that would be available to patients when they receive their prescription from the pharmacy, Since all prescription data is in electronic format, the Automated Medication Calendar application converts the data that is typically appears on a bottle label to a 8.5 X 11 chart with visual instructions that would illustrate how and when the medication should be taken.

The prescription information, including information identifying the one or more medications that the patient is to take, and information indicating when the patient is to take each medication, is translated into graphical depictions that are overlaid on the calendar grid. Thus, a graphical depiction identifying a medication is placed within each day on the calendar on which the patient is to take that medication. Additional graphical depictions overlaid on the calendar grid in this manner can include the time of day at which the patient is take the medication and how the patient is to take the medication. The graphical depictions include icons or actual photographic images.

The patent-pending Automated Medication Calendar is available for licensing for integration with other applications such as android, iphone applications, google health, interactive voice response systems and more. Contact us today!