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Pharmacy Students Taught Improved Medication Adherence and Holistic Health Services Through Program Incorporating InforMedix's Med-eXpert(TM) System
ROCKVILLE, Md., July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InforMedix Holdings, Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: IFMX) is pleased to announce that Auburn University's
Harrison School of Pharmacy has successfully incorporated InforMedix's
Med-eMonitor and Med-eXpert Systems into its teaching curriculum, to teach the
role of the community pharmacist in ensuring proper medication adherence and
holistic health management and consulting. Acting as a "community pharmacist,"
a team of pharmacy students and their advisors evaluated pharmacy early
practice experience patients for potential benefit from the Med-eMonitor smart
pillbox and Med-eXpert information system, which provides real-time,
customizable, actionable information on the medication adherence and health
status of chronically ill patients. They selected a woman taking 14 different
medications, who is taking these medications to treat congestive heart
failure, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, chronic pain, and to reduce her
risk of stroke. In addition to monitoring the adherence for each of the 14
medications, the patient is being monitored for general health status, and for
any changes to her prescribed medication regimen. Benefitting from the urgent
alerts being sent from Med-eXpert to the student pharmacist and family members
who worked together to ensure that the patient remained adherent to her
medication and that her health remained stable, the patient also took her
Med-eMonitor with her on vacation to maintain these benefits while away.
The Med-eMonitor and Med-eXpert Systems received strongly positive reviews
from the patient, her family members, and pharmacy faculty members at Auburn's
Harrison School of Pharmacy. Auburn University has an international reputation
for evaluating and teaching how cutting edge technology can enhance the
practice of pharmacy, and the role of the pharmacist as a consultant in
holistically evaluating and advising patients with respect to their
medications and health.
Bill G. Felkey, Professor of Pharmacy at Auburn University, commented,
"For some time now I have incorporated the Med-eMonitor and Med-eXpert Systems
into my presentations on cutting edge tools to be used by pharmacists to
enhance their consulting capabilities and professional identity. It is truly a
closed-loop solution that has stood the test of time. The next step was to
actually deploy InforMedix's medication adherence and health status
information solutions live in our teaching environment to provide hands-on,
real-time experience for our pharmacy students. I am pleased to report that we
have been highly satisfied with both the Med-eMonitor smart pillbox and
Med-eXpert Information System in linking together the patient, family members,
and pharmacist to optimize her health and medication adherence, and provide an
important and central role for the pharmacist. Med-eXpert's real-time alerts
have provided valuable information to enable the pharmacist to provide
targeted interventions to improve the patient's medication adherence and
health status."
Bruce A. Kehr, M.D., CEO of InforMedix, noted, "We are privileged that the
internationally renowned Harrison School of Pharmacy at Auburn University
selected our Med-eMonitor and Med-eXpert Systems as part of their teaching
curriculum, and that their levels of satisfaction were high. This supports an
important commercial role for our Med-ePhone, Med-eMonitor, and Med-eXpert
information solutions in independent and chain drug stores, to enhance the
practice of pharmacy, and enable pharmacists to more effectively support the
medication adherence and health status of their consumers."
About InforMedix
InforMedix provides its patented Med-eXpert(TM) information system
providing real-time, customizable and actionable information on the medication
adherence and health status of chronically ill outpatients.
Two portable appliances are used by patients to follow their medication
and care plans, and to record and transmit medication adherence and health
status information to the Med-eXpert System. The Med-eMonitor(TM), a portable,
interactive, "smart pillbox," which stores and/or manages up to 25
medications, while tracking patients' adherence to their medications and care
plans, and The Med-ePhone(TM), which prompts, monitors and records medication
adherence and health status assessment delivered to patients over mobile
phones and landlines using Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRS).
Mission-critical information can be uniquely customized for each customer's
and patient's needs at both individual and population levels to more
effectively and efficiently reduce healthcare costs, improve health outcomes
and increase patient satisfaction. InforMedix Solutions consistently achieve
medication and care plan adherence rates of 90% or more across multiple
chronic disease populations, as documented by academic medical center trials
and peer-reviewed journal articles. For more information, visit
http://www.informedix.com.
About Auburn University's Harrison School of Pharmacy
The James I Harrison School of Pharmacy is proud to be a part of the
Auburn University family. Situated in east centralAlabama, Auburn University
is not only the largest university in the state ofAlabama, but is
consistently the highest ranked university according to U.S. News and World
Report. For the 2002-2003 academic year, the magazine ranked Auburn 43rd among
the nation's top public universities. This is the 10th consecutive year that
Auburn has been ranked among the nation's finest public universities.
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