Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014
Medsnap ID Now Available to GNYHA Services and Essensa Healthcare Members

GNYHA Services, Inc. and Essensa, Inc., leading group purchasing organizations serving acute care, alternate care, and non-healthcare markets, have added MedSnap ID to their portfolio of technology offerings. MedSnap ID is the first smartphone-based computer vision solution to address the time-consuming and error prone task of patient medication history taking. Using an iPhone® camera and durable Snap Surface, MedSnap ID automatically Snaps an image of a patient’s pills. MedSnap ID then identifies all of the pills on the Surface, including generic, brand name and over-the-counter medications, and screens them for interactions and other safety issues. Clinician users can create a customized patient medication list with detailed instructions, pictures of each pill, and additional pertinent information appropriate for either patients or other clinicians. Medication lists can be printed, sent to providers or caregivers, or automatically imported into Electronic Health Records.

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Tuesday, April 8th, 2014
Medsnap Launches Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Security Solution – Medsnap Verify Services

According to The World Health Organization 10 percent of medicines globally – and over 30 percent in some developing countries – are counterfeit, resulting in poor patient outcomes and decreased consumer confidence in pharmaceutical therapy. To help combat this public health crisis, MedSnap has developed MedSnap Verify Services which uses proprietary computer vision technology to verify the authenticity of a set of pills in seconds using only an iPhone camera and a Snap Surface. The convenience of the solution allows verification to be performed across the supply chain, including at the point of individual patient dispensation. MedSnap Verify Services is offered to pharmaceutical manufacturers to complement their existing supply chain security initiatives. MedSnap launched Verify Services today at LogiPharma 2014, the leading end-to-end supply chain meeting for life science and pharmaceutical industry professionals that focuses on strategic and tactical improvements that can be implemented across the globe.

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Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Medsnap to Demonstrate M-Health Application and Tool that Improves Accuracy of Medication History

Medication history taking is a critical part of each clinical encounter, and understanding what a patient is actually taking can be difficult to assess in a busy clinical setting. MedSnap ID is an innovative clinician tool that – in a matter of seconds – uses an iPhone camera, downloadable app and Snap Surface to identify the most complex patient pill regimens, while determining potential harmful drug interactions. MedSnap will demonstrate its m-health technology, which improves efficiency and accuracy in patient medication history taking, at the HIMSS14 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Fl.

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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Viva Health, Inc. Leads U.S. Health Insurers with Adoption of Medsnap ID

VIVA Health, a member of the UAB Health System, has adopted MedSnap ID, a mobile medication safety technology that will allow its care managers to identify the medications a patient is taking and determine potential harmful drug interactions with a snap of an iPhone® camera. MedSnap ID uses computer vision technology to quickly identify an entire patient medication regimen including generic, brand name, and over-the-counter medications.

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Tuesday, August 13th, 2013
Cullman Regional Medical Center Deploys MedSnap ID Enterprise Solution

According to a recent report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, more than $200 billion is wasted each year in the U.S. due to suboptimal medication management. Focused on addressing this threat to patient care, Cullman Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Cullman, Ala., a recipient of Hospital & Health Networks’ 2012 Most Wired Innovator Award has become the first hospital in the U.S. to deploy the MedSnap ID Enterprise solution in many patient care areas of the healthcare facility.

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Wednesday, July 10th, 2013
MedSnap ID App Launches As World’s First Computer Vision Powered Prescription Medication Identification Service

According to a recent NEHI report, outpatient medication errors and non-adherence are the largest drivers of preventable readmissions, contributing to approximately $290 billion in unnecessary healthcare spending in the U.S. annually. To address these costly adverse outcomes, MedSnap, LLC., introduces MedSnap ID, a mobile technology solution for clinicians, health systems, hospitals, clinics, ACOs, pharmacies and home health providers. MedSnap ID eases the burden of medication reconciliation with mobile computer vision technology that makes patient medication regimen assessment a ‘new vital sign’ by quickly identifying entire sets of patient pills and screening for drug-drug and drug-disease interactions.

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Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
Med-Entrepreneurs Use Computer Vision And Smartphones To Address The Human And Economic Impact Of Medication Errors And Non-Adherence

MedSnap, LLC, a healthcare informatics company that has developed mobile application solutions to improve medication adherence and safety, today introduces the MedSnap Pill Mapping Project, a healthcare initiative designed to visually map the identities of thousands of prescription pills. The Project, which utilizes a mobile application and smart phone, allows a clinician, patient and/or caregiver to capture and reveal a set of pills’ identities in seconds.

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