The BHS
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Bridge Health Solutions (BHS) is pioneering advanced medication adherence solutions through its innovative platform that combines smart dispensing technology, mobile applications, and comprehensive care integration.

The Medication Challenge

• Studies show that 50-60% of patients with chronic illnesses miss doses, take the wrong doses, or drop off treatment within the first year.

• Approximately 10% of hospitalizations in older patients are considered avoidable through improved medication adherence.

• Poor adherence contributes to more than $500 billion in avoidable healthcare costs annually in the United States alone.

• Nonadherence is associated with 125,000 potentially preventable deaths each year in the United States alone.

• BHS has created several platforms to solve the problems associated with medication non-adherence for a wide range of markets, including people dealing with chronic illness, elder care and hospital-at-home initiatives.

Introducing Remy

The Remy Platform:

• Ideal companion to remind-me when to take my medications and confirm what has been taken.

• Uniquely handles real-time tracking for various types of medication (liquids, inhalers, pills).

• Supports and monitors as-needed medications.

• Supports remote setup and control, empowering professionals to manage medication adherence.

• Reduces medication errors and early doses through warning systems.

• Facilitates seamless medication reconciliation.

• Provides reminders and secure tracking for vitals from Bluetooth-enabled health devices (e.g., blood pressure monitors).

• Enables remote monitoring and telehealth functionality.

• Designed to support robust analytics.

• Supports tracking caregivers and PSWs, producing reports on timely medication care.

The Remy App

• The Remy App is a patented reminder app designed to ensure users follow through on reminders. Users scan a QR code or barcode to confirm they have taken their medication.

• It is a medication companion, designed for ease of use and gentle but firm medication reminder model

• Reminders can be customized to be sent multiple times via the App, SMS, or email to both users and their caregivers.

• If action on a reminder is missed by a user, caregivers can be alerted so they can follow-up.

• Scanning can also be used to track caregivers and PSW support to ensure expected visits are happening and medication support is consistent and reliable.

Remy Supports The User In Many Ways

• With carefully designed screens and menus the user is taken through all the stages of consumption and confirimation.

• Confirmation through barcode and QR code scanning helps to ensure medication are in hand and increases the likelihood that consumption will be performed.

• Additionally they can also provide feedback and broad indications of their health that day after taking a medication.

• Patients can review their upcoming schedules and review their past consumption history to confirm whether they have taken their medications or not.

The Remy Multi-Dose Dispensers

The team at Bridge Health Solutions have also created several prototypes and reference designs for multi-dose dispenses.  Each design also comes with a working prototype that demonstrates the power of this unique platform of products. 

  MAIN FEATURES

• Medications supports include blister packs and strip pouch packaging, prepared by pharmacists, with minimal setup required by the user.

• Medication is kept in a tamper-detecting dispenser accessed by fingerprint, key, or RFID badge.

• The dispenser also reminds users about inhalers and liquid medications and tracks use through RFID tags.

• The user is alerted via the dispenser, text, or email when it is time for their medication.

• If the user misses their medication, caregivers can be alerted allowing them to provide support.

• The dispenser automatically records readings from Bluetooth health devices like blood pressure monitors.

• There are also designs and a prototype for BHS's Nova single-dose dispenser.

• Nova is designed to support adherence for clinical trials where medication non-adherence can greatly increase costs (from $15,700 per participant in phase 1 trials to $26,600 in later phases).

• Nova also supports better adherence for high-cost medications like oral cancer therapies (which can cost up to $40,000 per month) and antiretroviral therapy (which can cost up to $9,000 per month).

• Nova is designed to prevent abuse of high-risk medications like pain killers, the use of which can lead to addiction and overdose.

• The patented reference designs and prototypes are integrated IoT chips and do not require extra technology like cell phones or Wi-Fi connections.  They stay quietly connected to the server at all times ("always-on-always-connected").