{"id":16253,"date":"2010-09-13T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T23:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/forget-your-meds-kent-man-has-a-way-to-remind-you\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T06:00:30","slug":"forget-your-meds-kent-man-has-a-way-to-remind-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/forget-your-meds-kent-man-has-a-way-to-remind-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget your meds? Kent man has a way to remind you"},"content":{"rendered":"
Have you ever been on medication, and it seems that you can never remember to take it on time?<\/p>\n
Aneel Robinson knows the feeling.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d always be forgetting to take my medication,\u201d the Kent resident said.<\/p>\n
In fact, after continuously forgetting to take his blood-pressure meds, Robinson, a devoted entrepreneur, decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n
Figuring other people were in same dilemma as him \u2013 people with busy lives who may not always be near a clock \u2013 Robinson developed his own business, devoted strictly to getting people to take their medicine on time.<\/p>\n
By simply signing up online or by phone, medication takers will receive a reminder call from Robinson\u2019s business, telling them it\u2019s time to take their medications.<\/p>\n
If they\u2019re on another phone call, or don\u2019t pick up the first time, Robinson\u2019s automated service, called Daily Pill Calls, will redial them up to three times. They also can receive reminder phone calls up to five times a day, for different medication times. Daily Pill Calls can contact people either on their cell phones, or their land-line phones.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a simple principle, and that is why Robinson is optimistic it will catch on.<\/p>\n
His business partner and former wife Deborah Robinson, echoes the sentiment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to do something to say, \u201chere\u2019s a reminder so you can stay on track,\u201d she said, noting the service is not only helpful to seniors, who may have many medications and may be forgetful, but also clients such as women who take birth-control pills, or people for whom mental-health medications must be taken at specific times, or else their symptoms become far worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have too much to do,\u201d said Aneel Robinson.<\/p>\n
He developed the business from his own home, purchasing the minutes of automated time from another company, but creating a custom voice-message element.<\/p>\n
The fee for the service varies depending on the number of calls the client needs from Daily Pill Calls. The service also doesn\u2019t require a contract, meaning the customer can use it, or discontinue it, whenever they feel it appropriate.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re also touting the service for other needs as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not just for pills,\u201d Deborah Robinson said, noting the service can be used a reminder for doctor appointments or other can\u2019t-miss events in a person\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could see it expanding to anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thus far, Aneel Robinson said they have a couple of hundred subscribers, entering their second month on the market.<\/p>\n
In the future, they also are hoping to be able to reach people with text messages, and to develop calling cards, so that people can purchase the service on behalf of others who need it, much as an adult child might do for a parent who wants to remain independent.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the first business venture for Aneel Robinson, who smiles and professes he\u2019s got \u201cabout 1,000 ideas a day.\u201d<\/p>\n
He produces informational videos that he sells to distributors, who in turn sell them to libraries in the U.S. as well as Canada. They can tackle all kinds of topics – from how to earn a GED to one he is currently working on, involving CPR for pets.<\/p>\n
A musician with indie inclinations, Aneel Robinson also did a radio show broacast in the United Kingdom, from his Kent home.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s also hoping to put some of that musical expertise to work with his call service, injecting some holiday music into the pre-recorded phone calls that his clients will receive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be doing the singing,\u201d he said, with a grin.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
LEARN MORE<\/p>\n
Daily Pill Calls<\/p>\n
On the Web: www.dailypillcalls.com<\/p>\n
Or call: 866-532-6855<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you ever been on medication, and it seems that you can never remember to take it on time?
\nAneel Robinson knows the feeling.
\n\u201cI\u2019d always be forgetting to take my medication,\u201d the Kent resident said.
\nIn fact, after continuously forgetting to take his blood-pressure meds, Robinson, a devoted entrepreneur, decided to do something about it.
\nFiguring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":16254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16253"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}