New Device Safeguards Against Medication Errors At Home

Patients suffering from chronic illness such as diabetes, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and depression, can take six-to-nine different medications a day - oftentimes more. Skipped doses, misinterpretation or labels, or confusion over what pills to take at what time can be fatal.

Larry Shusterman, DO, an internal medicine and geriatrics physician and a former pharmacist, has created a way to stop medication mismanagement through the Medi-Sure Medication Dispensing System, an automated device programmed by a pharmacist and used in the patient's home.

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