Prescription Labels For The Blind

The medicare prescription drug improvement and modernization act of 2003 mma required that the secretary of health and human services undertake a study on how to make prescription pharmaceutical information including drug labels and usage instructions accessible to blind and visually impaired individuals.

Prescription labels for the blind.

Prescription label information will be spoken out loud. The drugstore giant worked with the american council of the blind to design and test out the new feature. A customer who needs talking labels in their local walmart store should contact the pharmacy. Based on rfid text to speech technology scriptalk talking prescription labels are designed to help you better serve your patients who are blind visually impaired or print impaired.

Learn more join the ever growing list of national chain and private pharmacies ensuring their patients safety and medication adherence with accessible labels. Walmart and sam s club set standard for providing accessible prescription labels across u s. The company continues to offer scriptalk talking labels through its mail order pharmacy and at selected walmart stores. Walmart and sam s club are deeply committed to accessibility and medication safety for their blind visually impaired and print impaired pharmacy patients.

Under section 904 of the act the us access board which is comprised of representatives of the visually impaired community and the pharmaceutical industry was tasked with creating and publishing best. To enhance their commitment walmart and sam s club pharmacies provide en vision america s scriptalk audible i e.