Medication List

MEDICATION REMINDERS

CAREGIVING

Caring for loved ones is easier and more accurate with ZibdyHealth.

Caring for loved ones at home – whether they are recovering from a hospital stay, or have chronic medical conditions – can be a real challenge. The caregiver must keep track of the patient’s medications, allergies, treatment schedules, appointments, as well keeping an eye out for danger signs.

Monitoring for interactions between complex medical regimens and over the counter treatments for symptoms, such as Tylenol for a headache or Nyquil for a cold, is another key task. Caregiving is often a full time job – a huge task when trying to also maintain a day job.

ZibdyHealth can coordinate many of these issues in one simple easy to use application. The caregiver simply links his or her account to the patient’s account within ZibdyHealth.

The caregiver can maintain the patient’s medications list, check drug-drug interactions for the patient, initiate (and receive if appropriate) reminders for the patient’s medications, as well as record details for upcoming appointments.

If the patient must have his or her vital signs checked regularly (ie blood pressure, blood glucose), ZibdyHealth allows these to be quickly and simply recorded with an automatic time stamp. ZibdyHealth again makes recording all of this simple, and also allows the caregiver to quickly produce reports – in either pdf format or BlueButton+ (EHR) format to give to the doctor.

ZibdyHealth really is the ideal caregiver’s assistant! Blog

TRANSITION OF CARE

Syncs Medical Data Between All Transitions Settings

• Hospital to Sub-Acute Facility
• Ambulatory Clinic to Senior Care Facility
• Hospital to Home

Works Across Health States Transitions

• Curative Care to Palliative Care/Hospice
• Personal Residence to Assisted Living Facility

When a patient moves from one care situation to another, it is vital that all the medical info moves with them. ZibdyHealth makes this easy.

It is common for a patient to move from one care provider to another. Consider an elderly patient who has suffered a stroke. Initially they are cared for in a specialist stroke unit at a hospital, but as they recover will move either home to their family or to a rehabilitation facility. It is vital that all relevant information moves with them.

ZibdyHealth allows the patient’s care givers to record all information – including medications, reminders for these, and even diet details, in the patient’s ZibdyHealth account. Detailed medical information can be downloaded in BlueButton+ format, directly from the Hospital’s computer system. This means that the patient’s medical history will travel with them after the transition. Blog

DRUG INTERACTIONS

Prescription drugs are now the No.1 accidental killer in the U.S. — CNN

“Among 2712 patients aged 65 years or older recruited at hospital admission, 1642 (60.5%) were exposed to at least one potential DDI and 512 (18.9%) to at least one potentially severe DDI. Among 2314 patients discharged, 1598 (69.1%) were exposed to at least one potential DDI and 1561 (24.2%) to at least one potentially severe DDI.” — http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24038765

ZibdyHealth helps you identify potentially harmful interactions between the drugs you are planning to take such as prescription drugs, over the counter drugs, herbal or vitamin products, and the drugs you are currently taking. It automatically checks new medications for interactions with your current medications list – even before you buy them if you scan them in the drug store.

In addition, the components (active ingredients) within different medications can often be the same – leading to the possibility of overdoses. ZibdyHealth checks for this as well.

ZibdyHealth can help reduce medication errors such as omissions, duplications, dosing errors and drug-interactions during transition of care. It will help all caregivers know patient’s medications.

FAMILY MEDICAL HISTORY

Family medical records, at your fingertips.

It happens every time you visit the doctor’s office: they want your complete family medical history. Do you always remember everything about each person in your family?

If your father or mother had a particular health issue, odds are you may have it too. Likewise, our children may face the same issues as they grow older.

ZibdyHealth lets you track each generation’s response to medications, which ultimately gives you a map to what medicines are likely to work for you and your children. This can save a lot of trial and error – which itself is a waste of time and money, and causes unnecessary suffering.

Smarter, more efficient health care. It’s about time! Blog

TREATMENT RESPONSE

Build an archive of your responses to medication

Without your own medical history or your family medical history, your physician has to work like a detective to diagnose your illness and find a starting point to treat it. Take the example of an individual diagnosed with high blood pressure whose physican has to choose a drug(s) from more than six classes of medication. According to the Mayo Clinic,

“Sometimes finding the most effective medication – or combination of drugs – is a matter of trial and error”.

With records of responses to treatments available as part of your shared family medical history, your physician has a much better starting point in finding you the most effective prescription for your condition.

Mayo Clinic on “High blood pressure (hypertension)”. URL accessed July 23, 2012.

CONSOLIDATE YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS

Transfer your Medical Information from Doctor to Doctor, or Hospital to Hospital in a secure electronic format using ZibdyHealth.

The transfer of Electronic Health Records (EHR) requires a private secure system that can also maintain the integrity of the information. BlueButton+ is a standard developed by Medicare and the Veterans Administration which allows this type of medical information transfer. This ensures interoperability of your healthcare data.

ZibdyHealth lets you produce reports of your data in the BlueButton+ standard, as well as bring hospital BlueButton+ documents into your own ZibdyHealth account.

This means you can accurately let your doctor or hospital stay up to date with any OTC meds you have taken, or any treatment you have received from care providers in different systems or places (e.g. emergency care). This simple secure system, will help to make sure your care providers are making decisions based on “all” of the available information. Blog

TELEMEDICINE

Telemedicine is much more effective if the doctor has access to your medical history when he is evaluating you. For online and video consultations, making this information available simply and quickly is critical.

ZibdyHealth has a built in sharing feature which will let you share all or part of your medical history with any doctor anywhere regardless of what technology you are using to communicate with this doctor, whether it is an online app, video conferencing such as Skype or our favorite, good old phone.

A quick scan of your records during a e-consultation will provide tremendous insight to the physician on how to tailor his or her consultation to be useful and efficient.

ZibdyHealth communicates with most EMRs allowing you to consolidate your medical data. Therefore you can build and organize your entire medical history in one place than decide what information and for how long you would like to share it based on your needs. You can share your data for the duration of the online visit and stop sharing with single click after your call or visit is finished. Blog