(The evriMED dispenser also goes by the name MERM in some markets)
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The evriMED pillbox and software solution is an innovative medication adherence tracking system. A Simple aid for users and a powerful tool for caregivers and healthcare organisations.
Expert Pill Reminder and Monitor (evriMED500 and evriMED1000 , known also as MERM and MERM-RT)
“As treatment supervision alone is not likely to be sufficient to ensure good TB treatment outcomes, additional treatment adherence interventions need to be provided.”
Latest news on evriMED : Smart Pill Device Keeps TB Medication Adherence on Track
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
Link to download WHO guidelines
BENEFITS OF DIGITAL MEDICATION MONITORS
- WHO has concluded that adherence interventions significantly improve treatment outcomes for both DOT and SAT patients.
- Digital medication monitors are a proven-effective adherence intervention, delivering reminders and enabling enhanced counseling and differentiated care.
- Digital medication monitors are highly patient-centric and low patient burden. They permit remote, electronic observation of medication taking by self-administering patients.
- Digital medication monitors should save health system time and money by focusing provider time on demonstrably poor adherers.
- In large, cluster-randomized trials in China, digital medication monitors were shown to significantly improve medication adherence and be well accepted by both patients and provider
TB REACH WAVE 6
The Stop TB Partnership has launched its TB REACH initiative’s sixth wave of funding for innovative and out of the box ideas, strategies, initiatives, and technologies which aim to increase the number of people diagnosed and treated for TB, to decrease the time to appropriate treatment and to improve treatment success rates.
The Stop TB Partnership has launched its TB REACH initiative’s sixth wave of funding for innovative and out of the box ideas, strategies, initiatives, and technologies which aim to increase the number of people diagnosed and treated for TB, to decrease the time to appropriate treatment and to improve treatment success rates.
All details about this call for proposals can be found here: http://www.stoptb.org/global/awards/tbreach/wave6.asp
This wave also includes some special funding for some innovative models of private provider engagement.
