Retail pharmacies are evolving beyond dispensing medications. Today’s patients expect added value, better support, and tools that help them stay consistent with their prescriptions. Offering a simple, effective solution like Meticap can enhance your service while creating a new revenue stream.
Meticap is a practical pharmacy cap with timer designed to improve medication tracking directly on prescription bottles. It helps pharmacies deliver better patient outcomes while increasing retail opportunities.
Medication non-adherence remains a major issue affecting patient health and pharmacy performance. Patients often forget whether they have taken their medication or when the next dose is due.
This leads to:
Meticap for pharmacy is a pill vial cap that isn’t just easy to use, but also fits the industry-standard 1-Clic® prescription 1-Clic®vials found at Walgreens, Walmart and many other pharmacies around the world. The cap allows its users to keep track of the day and time of their last dose taken or next dose due. As it is already fits onto their prescription vial, it is easier to keep track of multiple medications and keeps the meds with their original labels and warnings and is reusable forever. Secondly, this cap is completely mechanical, with no digital display, batteries, or alarms. This makes it convenient to operate, regardless of your technological expertise, and it doesn’t cause any kind of alarm fatigue or issues with charging or changing batteries. Being mechanical, it has a simple mechanism of twisting dials, which makes it easier for pharmacy staff to demonstrate the usage in a few minutes, without many complications.
A simple timer cap for a prescription, Meticap provides benefits for both pharmacists and consumers:
Meticap’s pharmacy cap with timer has another advantage that it is available in a retail-friendly design, you do not need to transfer the pills into a different packaging, unlike in most organizers or pill dispensers. Rather, the cap itself will fit into the original 1-Clic vial.
Secondly, the bottle has a reusable design, so once your pills finish and you have bought another prescription, you do not need to buy a separate cap. Simply detach it from the old bottle and attach it to a new one. Their affordability allows consumers to have a separate cap for each of their prescriptions thus eliminating the need for other pill organizers altogether.
Meticap doesn’t demand and special packaging or pharmacy workflow changes. As a service upgrade for a surcharge, you can adhere the cap to the actual prescription for the customer, or you can sell it separately, as it can be easily attached by consumers. You can also demonstrate its usage to customers when providing instructions on dosage which could take under five seconds with Meticap’s “TAKE, TWIST, TURN” instruction mantra.
Meticap is a unique, enticing, convenient and clever product so it is easy to promote and educate to patients. Its mere offering can be a differentiating service to your customers over your competition. You can consider the following:
It has a simple mechanical feature that shows the day and time for the next dose due or the last dose taken. It doesn’t feature a timer lock, as its dials are nicely indexed into grooves inside the plastic cap to prevent accidental turning. These same grooved indexes also give the patient the sensory response of audibly hearing and feeling the manual changing of the dials.
Meticap is better than a smart cap. This is because not only are they easier to install into standard 1-Clic® vials, but they are also easier to use, making it easy for pharmacists to demonstrate the usage with minimal guidance. Meticap doesn’t add much to or complicate your regular workflow, unlike smart caps which require a skilled technology person.
Unlike disposable organizers, a reusable pill cap, such as Meticap, attaches to the original vial itself and most importantly, to the original labeling and dosage instructions. One doesn’t need to shift the medicines from the vial to additional containers. This reduces the amount of effort required, packaging waste, and allows for longer usage, making it a cost-effective and sustainable option.
Meticap is a simple and effective tool for medical adherence. Pharmacists can demonstrate how to use it within five seconds with “TAKE-TWIST-TURN”. It is a simple and easy-to-explain tool that doesn’t affect your workflow, and improves customers' medication timing and supports safer use. This means enhanced patient trust and retail engagement. Additionally, with the reimbursement rates to pharmacies on meds dropping drastically each year, Meticap offers a logical and seamless revenue generating upcharge opportunity with essentially no change. This tool alone could be a key element for increasing customer acquisitions in your advertising.