Teenage Cell Phone Use: Teens will use OnCellRx

When we first created a medication reminder system, we acknowledged that the long term mission of medication reminders at your fingertips depended on the availability of convenience technologies. None of us doubted the vision of personal, date and time-based devices in everyone’s pocket. After all, we’ve had wrist watches for hundreds of years and Dick Tracy showed us that wrist watches would someday carry video and more. The bigger question we all had was when would “someday” come, and when should we start developing the medication alert systems that would utilize it. Cell phones have now taken the place of wrist watches for many people and can do much more than even Dick Tracy may have imagined.

The United States government thinks the cell phone is a NOW opportunity for medication alerts to improve compliance and adherence and has begun exploring the possibilities.

A few years ago we moved onto the Palm Personal Digital Assistant platform, because Palm devices were quite frankly revolutionary in their utility as a hand-held, portable, date/time based convenience technology. Soon Handspring joined the PDA market, and we’ve worked hard to advance along with the business world as they started adopting the PDA as a convenience device. OnTimeRx has been available since 2000, and is the best selling, most advanced and easiest to use medication reminder system available. The basic Palm has advanced considerably since then, almost to the point of extinction as a stand-alone device, but OnTimeRx continues to keep pace with all of these advancements.

Everyone knew PDAs needed to incorporate cell phones into their toolset before they provided enough convenience for a large portion of the population. OnTimeRx® software now operates on all Palm PDA devices, including the combination devices like the Treo series Palm OS smartphones, and it is now available for Windows Mobile PDAs and Windows OS smartphones as well.

The Palm and Windows Mobile cell phones still take center stage for the ultimate hand-held convenience device, very close to those once envisioned by Dick-Tracy as future technology. However, with billions of new cell phone-users added to the world every year, the cell phone is rapidly overtaking the basic PDA as a primary utility device.

Have you seen Verizon’s announced deal with YouTube? It’s just the beginning. YouTube is a favorite among US teens, and US teens carry cell phones. Teens consume ringtones and subscribe to data plans. Teens also take medications, and understand how personal technologies not only enhance activities of daily living, but in many cases define them. Text messaging, picture messaging, and now web content have a super high adoption among teens.

OnCellrx is a cell phone based medication reminder system that delivers alerts and medication-related messages via the cell phone system. It carries the tremendous depth of knowledge about medication compliance and adherence from over 10 years of OnTimeRx research and development, and it is working and available now. If you have a cell phone, we offer a free medication reminders via our trial program.

Teens take medications, and teens suffer issues with adherence and compliance. Teens use cell phones. It’s only logical that Teens will use OnCellRx, The future is now, and now the US government is paying attention.

AmeliaPlex works with researchers, scientists, and allied health professionals to empower patients and increase compliance, helping to make adherence an achievable activity of daily living. We bring medication alert technology to populations of interest. If you have an idea or any interest at all in learning how you might utilize OnCellRx, or contribute to the momentum of our history of compliance enhancement through smart technology, we would love to hear from you.

Contact Susan Torrico at AmeliaPlex.