About RememberItNow!
Pamela Swingley, Founder
Our Story
Bob & his health
Pam Swingley built
RememberItNow! to remind her
father to take the right medication,
at the right time and in the right
dose…
and to include family members in
his care.
About RememberItNow!
Who we are.
• Private company, headquartered in Orinda, CA
• Founded in 2009, launched March 2010
• SaaS application, developed in PHP, MySQL database
• RememberItNow! Mobile (HTML 5) for any smart phone
• Management team: Deep experience in enterprise software &
web application development.
• Early buzz
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Much sleeker and easier to use than
Google Health or Microsoft HealthVault.
Who We Sell To
61 million adult Americans take multiple medications.
We empower people to take control of their health
• Healthier patients
• Improved medication compliance
• Peace-of-mind for caregivers
• Better health background for doctors
• Reduced health care costs
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Without the proper meds, I zone out and I am not as
productive. The reminders have improved my job
performance.
Ray, diabetes patient, salesperson, father
The astonishing state of
healthcare costs
Healthcare $$ = Employers’ Nightmare
90% of companies pay a portion of their employees premiums.
76% of respondents believe health care costs take
as much as 10% of business revenues.
TriNet Q3 HR Trends Survey
Employees Feel the Pain Too
Increased cost-sharing squeezes workers.
Premium increase
Wage increase
Wellness Programs = Hope
Many companies offer, but participation is low.
More than two-thirds of employers are
expected to expand wellness and disease
management programs in 2010.
Our take on
employee wellness
Medication Reminders
Right medication, right time, right dose.
Text or email
reminders
81% of adults in the U.S. take at
least one medication during the
week; 27% take at least five.
Noncompliance is Rampant
Nearly 50% of the time medications are not taken as prescribed.
Failed to Take Rx Drugs
I forgot to take them 64%
I had no symptoms or the symptoms went away 36
I wanted to save money 35
I didn’t believe the drugs were effective 33
I didn’t think I needed to take them 31
I had painful or frightening side effects 28
The drugs prevented me from doing other things I wanted to do 25
Nobody reminded me to keep taking, or to refill prescription 20
I had difficulty getting the prescription filled 20
The drugs tasted or smelled unpleasant 19
I had difficult opening the bottle or swallowing the drug 16
I was confused by all the drugs I had to take 15
The Cost is Mind Boggling
Annual U.S. costs due to incorrect use of medications.
Physician Visits Prescriptions
$177.4 billion ($13.8 billion) ($3.5 billion)
Nursing Home
Admissions
($32.8 billion)
ER Visits Hospital Admissions
($5.8 billion) ($121.5 billion)
J Am Pharm Assoc. 2001
Employers are Concerned
Medication compliance is among the top health objectives.
Nearly 9 in 10 employers rate medication
The Benfield Group, LLC
compliance as an important objective in managing
employee health.
Employers Are Taking Action
Current methods are not very sophisticated.
95% of employers are taking action to The Benfield Group, LLC
improve compliance.
Reminders Work
Studies reveal higher compliance and lower medical costs.
Study Reminder Type Results
Group Medication reminder Compliance
Pediatric liver transplant
* Text to smart phone With reminders: 69%
recipients
Without: 48%
Rejection Episodes
With reminders: 2
Without: 12
Adults with sun exposure Weather info & sunscreen Adherence
reminders With reminders: 56%
* Text to smart phone Without: 30%
Medication reminder Compliance
Asthmatic patients
* Text to smart phone With reminders: 81%
Without: 70%
Avg. Monthly Medicaid Costs
Diabetic patients Medication reminder
Reminders: $949
* Text to beeper
Without: $1233
Wait, there is more!
Maintain a Personal Health Record
Centralized health information for better care.
Create a Care Community
Connect patients, family, healthcare providers.
Doctor
Family & friends
Home care
Assisted
Patient living
In the past 12 months, 65.7 million
people in the U.S. have served as
unpaid family caregivers to an adult or
child.
- AARP, 2009 report, Caregiving in the U.S.
What do you get?
How much?
Where are you headed?
RememberItNow! Mobile
Medical information, anytime, anywhere.
How it Works
One account. Many devices.
In the cloud.
Compatible with:
Windows Macintosh Mobile Text SMS
Pricing
Ask about
our group
discounts!
Ad-supported
Support
We’re easy to reach when help is needed.
Phone & email Online FAQs
Account sharing/support
system
Support view
Client view
How we’re different
We Started with The Patient
Personas were the foundation of our development.
meet meet Phi
Janelle
A Better Way to do eHealth
Here’s what they told us.
• Keep it simple
• Self-evident navigation, pre-designed reports, high interactivity,
common sense, one main action per page
• Work the way I want
• Flexible reminder setup, access from any browser, mobile application,
single or shared account
• No hassles
• Robust free version, 30-day free trial, no contract, no software to
download, no questions asked cancellation, comprehensive online FAQ,
phone support too.
• Less is best
• Just right feature set
• Listen to me
• Twitter, Facebook, blog, newsletter, exit survey
• Keep it secure
• Tier one hosting – 2 servers with firewall protection, app is run on
HTTPS, account timeout, audit trail
Contact us for a demo!
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More About Us
• Follow us on Twitter
• Prezi – Introducing RememberItNow!
• Prezi – Patient-centric Philosophy
• Prezi – New way to work
• Watch our story - video
• Website
• eMail: pswingley@[Link]
Reference
• National Council on Aging – Center for Healthy Aging
• National Council on Patient Information and Education
• Study: Boomers to Flood Medical System
• Prescription Drug Compliance a Significant Challenge for Many Patients, [Link]
/Harris Interactive
• Protecting U.S. Citizens from Inappropriate Medication Use, ISMP paper.
• The Institute for Safe Medication Practices
• Preventing Medication Errors Quality Chasm Series
• Patterns of Medication Use in the United States, 2004, Slone Survey.
• National Family Caregiver Community (NFCA)
• The National Alliance for Caregiving
• The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media
• Employer medication compliance initiatives study (Benfield)
• Costs of Non-compliances, Align Map
• Behind the Numbers; Medical Cost Trends for 2009, PwC
