Microsoft has released Windows Mobile 6:

BARCELONA, Spain  Feb. 12, 2007  Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Windows Mobile® 6, the newest version of its mobile software platform. By improving usability and adding support for Microsoft® Office features previously available only on PCs, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 delivers to the small screen a familiar and rich experience that meets the needs of work and life while on the go, all with a single device.

Smart phones running Windows Mobile 6 are expected late this year. Currently, Smart Phones running Windows Mobile work with the OncellRx medication reminder service. Smart phones with Windows Mobile 5 include:

• Alltel Palm Treo 700wx
• Cingular 2125
• Cingular 3125
• Cingular 8125
• Cingular 8525
• CN3 Mobile Computer
• HP iPAQ hw6920/hw6925i-mate JAQ
• MC9097-G mobile computer
• Motorola Q
• Palm Treo 700w smartphone
• Palm Treo 700wx smartphone
• Palm Treo 750
• PPC 6700 (Alltel)
• PPC 6700 (Sprint)
• Qwest Pocket PC 6700Q
• Samsung BlackJack from Cingular
• Samsung SCH-i730
• Sprint IP-830W
• Sprint Moto Q
• Symbol MC70
• T-Mobile Dash
• T-Mobile MDA
• T-Mobile SDA
• Verizon Wireless PN-820
• Verizon Wireless XV6700

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Pharmacy Times Highlights OnCellRx.com Cellphone Medication Reminders

In “Strategies and Tools for Promoting Medication Adherence”, Pharmacy Times highlighted the OnCellRx.com cell phone medication reminder system as a “personalized voice and e-mail medication reminder service“.  Ameliatek’s sister product OnTimeRx.com for PDAs and smartphones was also recognized as an “advanced” dosing alarm.

Pharmacy Times recognized the serious threat medication adherence failure poses to patients:

Medications work only when patients take them as prescribed. Unfortunately, patients very often skip doses or take them at the wrong time. Nonadherence rates averaged 71% and ranged as high as 97% in >70 studies where patients’ dose taking was monitored electronically. Similarly, a review of 14 studies of patients’ dose timing showed that <41% of people consistently self-administered prescription drugs on the schedule set by their prescriber.Elderly patients and those with serious psychological problems (the very patients who are most at risk for suffering adverse consequences from poor medication adherence) are particularly likely not to follow dosing instructions.

and listed the 3 most common reasons people need medication reminders to help them taking their medications properly:

They are taking several different medications and multiple doses per day

They must refill prescriptions frequently

They have trouble affording their drugs

as well as the most common solutions proposed to help people improve their compliance:

• Simplify drug regimens
• Arrange for longer, 90-day supplies of medications
• Suggest substitutions of lowercost therapeutic equivalents for expensive brand name products
• Educate patients about how their medications work
• Instruct patients on how to administer doses
• Follow up with patients on whether they are using their drugs and whether they are experiencing any problems

OnCellRx.com is the only advanced, cell-phone and pager medication reminder service included in the comprehensive review of products to improve patient compliance and adherence. Our complete web-based management console, which enables you to manage your medication reminders easily and without any forms, approvals, or paperwork, instantly and immediately from anywhere on the Internet, makes OnCellRx the clear choice for remote medication compliance prompting.

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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.

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Complicated Medication Schedule: OnCellRx

You need to take your medication on schedule. How will you remember? There are many ways to remember things… you could tie a string around your finger as a reminder. Every time you see it, you are reminded of the thing you didn’t want to forget. Simple, right?

But what if the thing you didn’t want to forget was a very complicated multi-medication regimen, which includes IFs and ORs and UNLESS conditions, such as WITH FOOD or NOT WITH FOOD? That would require a lot of strings on your finger(s).

OnCellRX.com uses your cell phone to notify you on a schedule. It prompts you, with details, about taking your medications.

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