ID My Pill

ID My Pill's mission is to improve medication adherence and safety. Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) are injuries that happen due to medication errors, such as the incorrect medication prescribed or the wrong dosage taken. It is estimated that 12.2% of all patients that visit a hospital in the United States will experience some form of ADE [1]. In fact,... patients that experience an ADE have 50% higher rates of further hospitalization, 20% higher outpatient visits, and double the median healthcare costs [2]. Lastly, medication errors account for over 3.3 million injuries and deaths each year, costing up to $16.4 billion [3, 4]. The automatic and reliable identification of pills within images is a promising method to help physicians, patients, and emergency responders to reduce the number of ADEs. Not only could a physician ensure they are prescribing the proper medication, but the patient could later confirm that the pharmacist had indeed given them the correct tablet. Similarly, in an emergency situation where paramedics are responding to a prescription drug overdose, they could identify the drug using the ID My Pill iPhone app and potentially administer another drug to reverse the overdose. Most importantly, reading the name of the medication off the dosage bottle does not guarantee that the pill inside the bottle is indeed the that medication. ID My Pill is dedicated to prescription drug safety. In order to reduce medication errors and improve medication adherence, the ID My Pill iPhone app allows you to snap a photo of any prescription drug using your built-in iPhone camera and identify it immediately.Read More