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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Upending the Pharmacy Model

In Wired:   Design thinking it says.  More like back to the economics of labor costs.   Drug companies may like it because will increase compliance in taking the prescription.    " ... A startup pharmacy called PillPack hopes to change this archaic process. For $20 a month, PillPack will deliver prescription drugs to patients with the efficiency of Amazon Prime. Pillpack came to life thanks to a new incubator program at the famed design consultancy IDEO and the core of their service is a small blue box that organizes all of your med into “dose packets,” little plastic baggies marked with the date and time they’re to be taken. A jumble of amber bottles are replaced by an efficient to-do list made of drugs. .... " 

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