September 18, 2011
Medication Reminders Via Facebook
Susan McClellen, University of iowa children’s Hospital
A Facebook application created by an Iowa hospital reminds young transplant patients to take their medicine.
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Susan McClellen, University of iowa children’s Hospital
A Facebook application created by an Iowa hospital reminds young transplant patients to take their medicine.
To give young transplant patients a friendly reminder to take the medicine that keeps their bodies from rejecting the new organs, the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital is turning to Facebook.
Patrick Brophy, who oversees treatment of kidney disease at the hospital, worked with the technology staff to create Iowa MedMinder. The application creates a pop-up box of all the medications a patient needs to take that day, which appears on his or her Facebook page. Patients click
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