Gallery: This App Could Finally Get People to Take Their Medicine

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    PillPack, a service that sends packaged doses of medications in the mail, now has an app.
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    The app is a medication reminder app, with a few additional flourishes. The first: PillPack's comprehensive database means that you simply log in to the app, and your medications will auto-populate. No data entry required.
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    Once all your prescriptions are listed, you create "packs." This groups all the pills you take at, say, 8 a.m. in one place.
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    PillPack founder TJ Parker says he took more design inspiration from organizational apps like Mailbox or Sunrise, the calendar app, than he did from the healthcare industry.
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    Parker is building more context-awareness into the app to make it more intuitive. As of now, users can create a location-based alert, so, say, arriving at the office prompts a notification.
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