RxNT’s ePrescribing and electronic health record solutions incorporate FLAVORx-recommended taste options for pediatric liquid medications, helping pediatric prescribers improve outcomes by promoting better patient adherence. To date, the RxNT and FLAVORx partnership has provided pediatric prescribers over 1.4 million opportunities to flavor liquid and suspension medications from the point of patient care.

Chronic Disease is a long-lasting condition that can be controlled but not cured. Acute illness is any illness characterized by signs and symptoms of rapid onset and short duration. Both chronic and acute illness affect the population worldwide. Understanding the incidence and prevalence of certain conditions in specific populations is extremely helpful, especially when we think about the who, what, why, and how of patient counseling. Educate yourself so that you can better educate your patients!

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New app for iPhone aims to improve adherence to pediatric medications and simplify the road to wellness by giving parents and children the ability to choose the taste of their liquid medicine digitally. Doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians can also use the app to better engage with their patients and improve outcomes.

I recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Judging a Pill by Its Color.” It addressed the fact that consumers make a lot of assumptions about medication simply based on the color of the tablet or capsule. That got me thinking about all the colors we have come to take for granted in the world of pharmacy and medicine. What if the color, size or shape of the pill altered a customers medicine adherence? Color is all around us and I think we make many assumptions about the significance of what certain colors mean or imply when we see them.