Patient compliance has always been problematic, especially when the patient has to manage multiple medications. Using technology to help ensure that patients use the right medication at the right time isn’t a new idea, but with computerization and communication technology advancing rapidly, new ways to do so keep emerging. According to a recent article in iMedicalApps—an independent online medical publication for medical professionals, patients and analysts who are interested in mobile medical technology and health-care apps—a Google search for medication reminder apps turned up 272 options. The article noted that 109 of the apps were free. (However, only 33 of the 272 were available on both the Google Play and iTunes app stores.¹)

Here, we profile a number of these apps, and Rohit Krishna, MD, an associate professor of ophthalmology and director of glaucoma at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, who helped to create the popular app Eye Handbook (Cloud Nine Development, Overland Park, Kan.), shares some of his thoughts on this topic. Read more.