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Jeff Thompson:
Welcome to Blind Abilities. I’m Jeff Thompson.
Jeff Thompson:
Now, I’ve got some news for you. Walmart and Sam’s Clubs now provide accessible prescriptions, courtesy of ScripTalk from Envision America, and once again, Envision America, bringing us great news for accessibility.
Speaker 2:
ScripTalk is a service that Walmart provides for free for their customers for the visually impaired customer, elderly, anybody who just has trouble reading the font size on the labels. It is a device that they get sent to their home, and it will read their prescription label to them.
Speaker 3:
Prescriber.
Speaker 2:
Very easy to use. Just 30 buttons on the bottom. The customer can mount it to their wall or anywhere they want to place it that’s convenient for them. They will hold the bottle up to the device, press the read button in the middle, and it reads the entire label to them.
Speaker 2:
It also gives them the prescription number.
Speaker 3:
Prescription number 1234.
Speaker 2:
It gives them how many refills they have, warnings, cautions, anything that they may need to know about the prescription.
Speaker 2:
Solutions like this, I think, empower the patient. If we can provide a service for them that can help them at home on their own, then that will save them time. It saves us time, and it gives them a starting point, and then, of course, if they have anything further that they need to know, we’re always available.
Jeff Thompson:
Welcome to Blind Abilities. I’m Jeff Thompson. I’m at the National Federation of the Blind Convention 2019, Las Vegas, Nevada, and I’m at the booth of Envision America. I’m talking to Dave Raistrick. How are you doing, Dave?
Dave Raistrick:
I’m doing great, Jeff. How are you?
Jeff Thompson:
I’m doing great, Dave. It’s good to see you again.
Dave Raistrick:
Yeah, it’s terrific.
Jeff Thompson:
Dave, every time I see you, there’s something new, something exciting happening at Envision America.
Dave Raistrick:
Yeah, you know accessibility continues to happen in this country with regard to accessibility with prescriptions and pharmacies. States like Nevada kind of paved the way for making accessible prescriptions the law. That’s really great that Oregon also has followed suit, and they’ve just passed a law to make accessibility the law. So, an individual can go into a pharmacy, request an accessible prescription, and get it right at their pharmacy.
Jeff Thompson:
Just by asking.
Dave Raistrick:
Just by asking. What we do is we give the pharmacies then the tools to do that, and ScripTalk is the electronic label that they place on the medication. The patient gets their reader for free, and then they can read their medications and get the information spoken.
Jeff Thompson:
And that’s all free for any individual requesting accessible prescriptions?
Dave Raistrick:
Yeah, absolutely. And so, I’ve got a ScripTalk here. I’m going to go ahead and hit the read button, and I’ll play a prescription for you. This is a prescription for John J. Smith.
Speaker 3:
Patient John J. Smith. Medication, Amoxicillin 500 milligram tablet. Instructions take one table three times daily. Quantity, 30. Prescription—
Dave Raistrick:
So, from start to finish, it’s going to read them all that label information, including all the warnings.
Jeff Thompson:
Now Dave, for our listeners, you just simply took the pill bottle. You can place it on top of the script top.
Dave Raistrick:
Yeah, that’s an electronic label that they place on the bottom of the medication. It’s a little one-inch medallion that has the data stored in a microchip, and so the ScripTalk reader is free of charge. That then, we provide to the patient.
Dave Raistrick:
One great piece of news too is that we’re finally coming out of beta for the iOS app too, so you’ll be able to read your ScripTalk labels with your mobile phone.
Jeff Thompson:
Oh, really?
Dave Raistrick:
Yeah, so that’s a really important thing. We finally got Apple to kind of release the API so that we could actually do reading of medications, the ScripTalk meds, right on their own mobile phone.
Jeff Thompson:
So, whether you have one prescription or seven prescriptions, you could just go right through one after the other and sort out all our medications.
Dave Raistrick:
That’s exactly right. And again, you can get the ScripTalk station reader from us for free, or you can use the mobile app, either one, whatever suits.
Jeff Thompson:
Well, that’s independence.
Dave Raistrick:
Yes, that is. Exactly.
Jeff Thompson:
So, that’s really cool that different laws in different states are changing and kind of paving the way, and you guys are right there for it.
Dave Raistrick:
Yeah, every state is continuing to kind of stand on the shoulders of other giants and make accessibility a key feature in their state.
Jeff Thompson:
So Dave, what if someone is living in an area where this doesn’t seem attainable? What would you recommend for them to do?
Dave Raistrick:
Well, I would recommend to kind of reach out to other states that have done it. Again, Oregon and Nevada are really leading the way, and there are several states that are doing the same thing, that are talking to their Congress people, getting a bill enacted, getting it pushed through step by step because it’s just a matter of mobilizing to getting the laws passed.
Dave Raistrick:
So, a lot of people that are doing it, we can provide the support. So, if you give us a call, we can put you in contact with the right people.
Jeff Thompson:
And how do they get a hold of Envision America?
Dave Raistrick:
Absolutely. You can contact me directly. My name is David Raistrick. Our phone number is 800-890-1180. You can look us up the internet, and it’s envisionamerica.com, and yeah.
Jeff Thompson:
We got the ID-Mate here.
Dave Raistrick:
Yes, we do. We have the ID-Mate still, the ID-Mate Galaxy is still out and doing really well. It’s your talking barcode scanner. It’s your friend. It allows you to scan a barcode and speak back all the label information on products that you have in your home or at work.
Jeff Thompson:
All of you business enterprise people, pay attention there.
Dave Raistrick:
Absolutely. Yeah.
Jeff Thompson:
Thanks a lot, Dave. Nice to see you here again.
Dave Raistrick:
Thank you very much.
Jeff Thompson:
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Jeff Thompson:
And most importantly, I want to thank you, the listener. I want to thank you for listening. I hope you enjoyed, and until next time, bye bye.
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