Digital Health news and innovation in the pharmacy space. Focused on startups and recent developments that will impact pharmacists and the profession. Demos and related reviews of products in the digital health space. Views are my own and not representative of my employer.
I recently discovered Popit. It’s a great idea but the sensors don’t work for me as I have my medication in dossette boxes. It is just not compatible with those. Having said that, the accompanying app is brilliant for reminding me to take my meds without the £45 sensors. Just market the app guys. I wouldn’t mind paying for it. It’s a lifesaver.
Great content. Some feedback. I feel it can get rambly at times. I think adding timestamps and labeling the content that you're covering in the description can be helpful for viewers
When some wannabe pharmacists were promoting pharmacists giving vaccines I knew what would happen: this extra duty would just be added with no extra hours of help. The interruptions of stopping to give shots , the increased workload promotes fatigue and the resulting errors. These wannabes seem to have gotten control of the APHA, which is why I quit my membership years ago. They won’t be content until they are performing Pap smears and prostate exams in between filling prescriptions! Pharmacists can definitely be replaced to automatic fill robots and technicians. Don’t waste your time going to pharmacy school!
I use a TKL at home (as I like to game) but with working from home becoming the norm, have recently invested in one of these as I have to use excel quite a bit. Its great looking little thing but has some terribly glaring issues. 1) Most importantly, the layout is different from a numpad on a standard keyboard - which lends to a not insignificant learning curve if you are used to using a standard full-sized keyboard. 2) Keycaps are flat profile - which makes it a lot harder to rely on just touch. Mechanical keyboards have differential height and sculpting on rows to make it easier to find the right key quickly and without needing to look at your keyboard. Even my crappy laptop keyboard has a bump on the "5" key on the centre to help you find where you are on the numpad. With time, you get used to it but it still is a bother and slows down data analysis/manipulation/entry. Its also a bitch if you ever have to switch back to a normal layout numpad as learning the layout messes up your muscle memory. The weird custom layout and size of the keys also means that you can't just thrown on standard cherry profile or oem keycaps either. 3) It comes with only clicky blue switches, without quieter linear or tactile options. I love clickly switches and (contrary to the given wisdom) even use them for gaming at home, but they are definitely not office friendly - which is a shame for such a portable device. The fact that it is bluetooth means that (unlike most mechanical numpads) you can use them with a laptop without taking up a usb port (which have become as rare as hens teeth on current ultrabooks). Unfortunately its also one of the only bluetooth mechanical numpads out there.
Is there a snooze swipe feature For taking the medicine ?To turn off the alarm; but take the medicine at the intended time. As could understand putting the device near the kitchen/living room but not wanting to wakeup the entire household in process. Does it come with a ethernet port for weak wifi ?
As found although pill drill does help a-lot. But when wifi fails/plays-up it does make it confusing on whether you are to take your medicine.Or feature in swipeing to early to turn off the alarm when getting up in the morning confusing with alarm with time for medicine as the buildings living room/or kitchen is as long way from where I sleep or am asked to stay. To ensure one doesn't wakeup other people in the building/house unintentionally.
TIL in 1917 Malaria was used as a treatment for Syphilis. It would burn the syphilis out of the system and was known as "Pyrotherapy." While the patient then had Malaria, this was a far less lethal disease than syphilis and was considered less painful to die from. trend.financesheff.site/today-i-learned/til-in-1917-malaria-was-used-as-a-treatment-for-syphilis-it-would-burn-the-syphilis-out-of-the-system-and-was-known-as-pyrotherapy-while-the-patient-then-had-malaria-this-was-a-far-less-lethal-di/
Studying for the new Medication History Certification for techs, and focusing on adherence measures. Watching videos and listening to explanations helps so much, thanks for posting this info!
Hi, your talk was great. I'm a current P1 student at one of the top 10 colleges in USA for pharmacy programs and I've a couple of questions. 1) does being from a top pharmacy program help in job prospects? 2) I plan on doing a residency because I'd like to specialize in a field (something like BCACP, BCPS), then progress to teaching. This is also because I'd like to participate in a clinical setting, how would you advise? 3) What is the pay like for pharmacy professors? 4) What do you think the future looks like for someone like me? if I'm trying to gauge ahead of time and do things that can specifically help me stand out better- how would you advise?
Thank you! I think a top school may help for recognization and brand awareness, but would say it's the connections there that may help. I often think school is beyond the grades you make, but also the the hands you shake, and if faculty or the program has good connections, find them and leverage it. This may also really help for a residency pursuit. Pay is all over the place, but AACP has data out. Will depend on ranks (assistant vs associate vs full) which may vary by region. Overall I would give a broad estimate of 90K-100K starting out with then raises based on merit and promotion over the years. I would say watch the current landscape based on how the schools do, especially post-pandemic.
Thank you for those tips. If I start on wordpress using a free domain (.wordpress) and then after some time if my posts are successful can I then actually buy a domain ?
Good question! I think you can transfer the material over one way or another. The biggest thing is if pages are indexed and will be maintained after changing a domain.
Awesome video! Great to hear your insights and breakdown of each of the different categories in healthtech. With everything going on at the moment, what is your view on the overall healthtech industry?
Thank you! I think this pandemic is a major shakeup and those that can figure out how to navigate a likely changing consumer expectation of health delivery will have a better shot compared to those that were just trying to fit into the current/past medical paradigm.
Looking forward to seeing some more of your videos!!! I think that you deserve way more views. Did you ever think of using smzeus . c o m?! It’s a handy tool to help you grow your RU-vid following.
This might be a bit random, but I also just purchased this item (and the dot keyboard!) and I see there are non-numerical alternatives on the calc--page up, page down, arrow keys, delete) but I can't figure out how to use these. Pressing 0/fn only seems to work when using + or - to change the backlight, or the 1/2/3 bluetooth functions... what am I missing??
I did not see this! So, looking into it I see on their Kickstarter page this: "Short press the ‘CALC’ key to switch to calculator mode, and with a short press of ‘NUM’ key, you can switch between Number Pad Mode and Keyboard Mode. Super convenient and versatile." But, testing it in a Word or Excel document I cannot get it to work. I'll try playing around and see if it's a different combination.
@@TheDigitalApothecary Ok, so I've tried this since you pointed it out, and it's not working for me either. When I'm in Finder or anything similar which involves choosing from a vertical list, I get *something* at least, I can jump around a bit, but not in any pattern I can figure out (eg down arrow takes me to the very top, then does nothing for a few presses, then takes me halfway down, then goes up one at a time before stopping again). Part of me thinks it has to do with my computer not understanding the non-numerical keys. I tried turning off the keyboard as well, but that didn't do anything
The Digital Apothecary Here's the reply: "Thanks for purchasing our product. About the Digit Number Pad the Edit key, Our settings should be based on the settings of the MAC system, but the Apple system does not support setting the numeric keypad to up, down, left and right, PgUp and PgDn, Home, Del, Enter. This can only be used on Windows systems."
