This is how Sound Meds works: is ensured by the typographic printing of a QR code mark. One click photo from smartphones and tablets on this symbol, generate a link to listen aloud
Monday 23 March 2015 – Corriere Adriatico.it
ROME – Those who cannot read the drug leaflet will now be able to listen to it: an informative sound module, associated with the packaging of pharmaceutical ophthalmic products, is the first experience of this type in the world and has been adopted in Italy by a Sicilian company, the Sifi, out of three products on the market these days.
The new sound illustration system of the Sound Meds product (all made in Italy) is ensured by the typographic printing of a QR code mark. A photographic click on this symbol from smartphones and tablets generates a link to listen verbally, correctly and clearly for the patient, to all the information necessary for the correct intake of the drug. Furthermore, the accessibility system allows you to view the leaflet in web and pdf format on the screen of your device, with the possibility of enlarging the reading characters. Around 500,000 adverse events occur every year in the United States - according to research by the Institute of Medicine - as a result of misreading the package inserts of pharmaceutical products.
In Italy, a survey by Altro Consumo found that "understanding the contents of the information leaflet should be a way to safeguard one's health, but the obstacle, as mentioned, is legibility" with foreseeable consequences on the person, not able to correctly learn useful information.
