Introducing PillSafe

Pill Manufacturers

Manufacturers have spent billions of dollars reformulating time-release pills to deliver drugs slowly, even when crushed. Despite these valiant efforts to increase safety, the underlying issue remains. With the current packaging solutions, patients still have immediate and full access to the drugs. Without restricted access, manufacturers will always be vulnerable to litigation. 

Physicians

PillSafe can help doctors protect themselves from liability by ensuring medication adherence and preventing patient overdoses. When patients have access to more than the prescribed dose, they can medicate based on their perceived pain level rather than the scheduled dosage. The device’s pill timer can also decrease a patient’s overall usage by up to 25 percent. Doctor offices requiring monthly pill counts for addictive medication prescriptions can trust PillSafe to precisely track missed pills. Knowing with certainty that the device prevents patients from diverting their medication, doctors can better manage prescriptions to ensure the lowest possible dose of potentially addictive substances. 

Governments

One of the biggest challenges is getting accurate information in real-time. We are one step closer with PillSafe. Cities, counties, and states can verify that medications have arrived safely to the intended recipient. With endless possibilities, PillSafe is futureproof. Our creators can include additional features that aid governmental reporting. 

Patients

According to a Mayo Clinic study, approximately half of all patients never realize the full benefits of their medication because they don’t adhere to their prescriptions. With reminders and theft deterrence built-in, PillSafe can increase medication adherence and enable people to live healthier, happier lives. 

Insurance Companies

Every day, approximately one thousand Americans receive treatment in the emergency room for misuse or abuse of prescription opioids. In addition to those ER visits, insurers pay billions of dollars for hospitalizations due to overdoses or harmful side effects. Even with non-addictive medications, lack of compliance can have devastating impacts. By ensuring compliance, PillSafe can prevent these events and significantly reduce insurer costs.

Payers can also contain costs by requiring members to purchase their prescription drugs through the mail, knowing that the device will keep the medication safe and secure while in transit. Mail order, or home delivery, can save up to 25 percent compared to big-box, brick-and-mortar pharmacies with higher overhead costs.

Pharmacies

Both mail-order and brick-and-mortar pharmacies have had to defend themselves against claims of negligence. Many of the pending lawsuits have cited pharmacies for failing to recognize, investigate and report suspicious behavior. PillSafe can help pharmacies keep track of customer medications, helping them identify misuse and abuse. By doing so, they can refuse to fill questionable prescriptions, report them and avoid liability. 

Counterfeit Medications & Pharmacies

Counterfeit pain and anxiety medications have become the latest challenge to managing additive medications. Because the pills are made to look exactly like prescription medications such as Xanax, oxycodone, Percocet, Norco, etc., patients don’t know that the counterfeit medications they purchase contain fentanyl, which is cheaper and more potent than other drugs.
 

The developers of PillSafe believe that if all potentially additive medications were distributed in a known secure tamper-proof, adult-proof bottle, that cannot be duplicated by nefarious pill-mills, the accidental acquisition of counterfeit pills could be reduced.