Here is an update that I thought would interest you and your readers. As you know, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is currently offering talking prescriptions to our nation’s visually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dean Steacy, who is blind, shows an array of medications he takes daily. He is lobbying Rexall to provide audible prescriptions ...

Wegmans is offering the ScripTalk system that allows blind or low-vision patients to hear important prescription label information audibly, ensuring their medication independence and safety. The chain ...

Essentia Health, a 14-hospital system based in Duluth, Minn., launched a free tool March 26 to verbalize prescription labels. The app, ScripTalk, uses text-to-speech technology to recite drug labels ...

Prescription labels can improve medication safety, according to a study conducted by Issues & Answers Network for En-Vision America, a company that provides ScripTalk Talking Prescription System to ...

CVS Health has announced it will now offer ScripTalk talking prescription labels as well as braille and large print labels through its mail service pharmacy to CVS/caremark members who are blind or ...

I’ve heard from a veteran friend here in North Carolina that he can get talking prescriptions from the VA hospital. He gets his prescriptions with an special electronic label. They also gave him a ...

The tool, called ScripTalk, uses text-to-speech technology to verbalize prescription labels for patients who cannot otherwise read them. ScripTalk relies on an electronic tag that Essentia pharmacists ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NORMAL, Ill. — A talking prescription label to organize the many medications visually impaired patients often ...

For millions of people, reading prescription information on a medication container can be difficult or impossible due to vision impairments. But the details on those container labels can be critical ...

Midwestern food and drug chain Hy-Vee has rolled out “talking” prescription drug labels from En-Vision America to aid visually and print-impaired patients. En-Vision’s ScripTalk labels are now ...