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From Missed Doses to Safer Practices: Technology Can Ease Medication Management

Written by Laura Kelley | November 08, 2024

For those taking multiple medications and their caregivers, at-home management is one of the most challenging parts of daily life. Missed doses, taking doses at the wrong time or taking too much of a medication can have dire consequences. Pharmacists say new technologies are helping to prevent errors and easing medication management for everyone.

Below, Laura Kelley, Office of Communications media relations professional, speaks to Joseph Saseen, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, CLS, associate dean for clinical affairs and professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, about how technology is changing the pharmaceutical industry.