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Free Medication Reminders App: Dr. Redona Hafizi, TOM Medications
No email, no name, not even a login is required when signing up.
You just start using the app so you don’t forget to take your meds.
Wait, what?
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- a free medication reminders app
- why people don’t adhere to therapies
- how patients control what they share and even earn money
- and how pharmaceutical and insurance companies can listen better to patients and support them with real-world data in cardiovascular, alimentary tract, metabolic diseases such as diabetes, nervous system conditions such as depression, and more
My guest, Dr. Redona Hafizi is a co-founder and Head of Pharma at TOM Medications. With a PhD in industrial pharmaceutical science, she’s an expert in pharmaceutical insights. And guess what, they’re absolutely fascinating.
TOM Medications is a Swiss startup that developed an app – for patients and with patients–to remind them to take their medications. The app is free. And already now, there’s a plethora of real-time patient data, valuable to pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
Here’s when you can learn more about TOM:
https://www.tommedications.com/
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Dr. Redona Hafizi and TOM Medications
00:01:14 The Actual Profits of Using the App
00:02:28 Setting Up the Medication Reminder App
00:13:41 What Medication Adherence Means
00:27:03 Iterating and Growing the App by Listening to Users
00:32:27 Helping Pharma Be More Patient-Centric: Real-World Data, But Faster
00:41:52 Checking for Double Medication with Insurance Companies
00:47:20 Scaling Up to Make the Healthcare System More Patient-Centric
00:50:58 Thank You, Follow TOM Medications
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