Patient Care


Management System Helps Patients Follow Drug Schedules
A prototype medicine management system geared toward the elderly features a touch screen and a camera for reading bar codes on drug packages, as well as accompanying programmable pill-boxes that can remind users when to take their pills. More...23 Dec 2009


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