Six examples of what different drug QR Barcodes look like. The number of black dots in each corresponding square-shaped QR Barcode relates to the number of characters in the doctor’s instructions. Scanning these QR Barcodes with the Our Pills Talk Medication Safety App will speak out these embedded doctor’s instructions, otherwise known as “sigs”.
SERETIDE ACCUHALER
NEXIUM HP7
PANADEINE FORTE
TRANSIDERM NITRO
NUELIN SYRUP
MINIRIN NASAL SPRAY
EPIPEN
BACTROBAN CREAM
How the prescription labels appear when the pharmacist prints this out during the dispensing of the patient’s prescription. Both labels are placed on the patient’s medication.
The Our Pills Talk Medication Safety App QR Barcodes are also printed out on the patient’s repeat prescription form, in the right vertical column. This will provide support for the patient by speaking out which drugs and how many repeats are still available for dispensing.
Several QR Barcodes can be printed out down this column to provide different helpful information to the patient, providing added confidence with their medications.
Information contained in each relevant QR Barcode includes:
- Doctor’s Instructions, including
- drug name
- patient’s name
- how to take the medication
- date of dispensing
Examples below of what is contained in Our Pills Talk Medication Safety App QR Barcodes:
- Information in “1” (below) will be spoken out by scanning “2” with the Our Pills Talk App
- Medication Organiser Summary information, “11”, embedded in the Our Pills Talk Medication Safety App QR Barcode “2a”.
Our App Wins Prize
The Our Pills Talk Medication Safety App has won first prize in the "Enabling System Change" category of the NSW government's Apps4NSW competition.
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