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Hero — We've simplified medication management
Hero manages every part of your loved one's medication, so they never miss a dose again.
The device sorts and dispenses doses at the push of a button
The app reminds you to take your pills.
Hero Fill delivers meds directly to your door
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@davetisch Thanks David. Much appreciated. At one point we had plans for many bells and whistles but our user conversations and testing suggested that we should take a simpler approach at least for now. Excited to add even more to the experience (where it's really helpful to the user) as we move forward.
looks like it will be a cool product; especially for elderly people.
It's similar to a device that I have. HERO is kind of an electronic version:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0...
I commend your attacking a worthwhile problem, drug adherence.
I do believe that the adherence solution of the future that no-one is currently building or researching is a cheap pharmacokinetic verification tool that would allow doctors to reward adherence. We have no way today to detect if someone has taken their meds.
That's the next big breakthrough.
Maybe something exists on the frontier of electroplethysmography.
There's quite a few companies who track inventory counts on drug prescription refills as a proxy for knowing if a patient has taken their meds. This is only half the battle.
From a gerontology perspective, there's a large number of drugs that require different temperature settings. I'm curious about the design process for this device and how you approached the average distribution of drugs that a patient is taking.
@kalvepuri , which patient population are you targeting?
This is awesome. In my teens I peaked at 18 pills a day and was super unmanageable. Hero also looks absolutely beautiful, being able to have it out in the open is really great, way less awful then leaving out bottles and bottles of pills. You feel self conscious as a younger person with all those meds.
@thatmattgardner Thanks! It's so true, and a real shame that medicine, something that benefits our health enormously and is part of our daily routine, is relegated to the "tedious chore that I don't like to talk about" category.
Like the concept very much. Adherence being a very heavy issue now, and in the years to come.
Dispenser filling and Hero programmation could be an impossible challenge for elderly, however.
Would suggest to add remote-programmation by pharmacy over wi-fi, and dispenser tray preparation at pharmacy, sealed at pharmacy, ready to be placed in the device, to avoid
- confusion between pills (when you're 90, green or blue may be the same)
- confusion / misconfiguration of dispenser through app screen or device rotary wheel / screen.
@johnrwhaley Unlike most pre-orders product launches, we already have our entire supply chain, tooling, and development process done. Fulfilling orders will start this summer!
This is really great. Maybe I'm one of the lucky ones but I only take 1-2 pills / day, so it's a little overkill. I've tried NFC tags, reminders, alarms, DO buttons, none seem to really work for me.
"Let’s make people healthier by making medicine smarter." - good slogan but I'd prefer "Let's make people healthier by making them more educated and less stressful. Then pills will mostly disappear" :)
It reminds me of multi-billion research of cancer treatment but it turns out eventually that cancer is actually and mostly a suppressed immune system disease because of environmental, social and psychological conditions (as well as diabetes, depression, high blood pressure, etc).
Anyway, cool solution, it's awesome for some cases.
@antonsekatski That's a really good point Anton - a huge part of the problem is that meds are stressful, stale, scary. We wanted to make something intuitive that is a simple and fast part of your day. Experience and psychology are so important.
@kalvepuri I love this concept - the design is beautiful and well designed. Curious - is there a weight-sensor underneath the pill cup that's used to verify the pills have in fact been taken? Or, is it a proximity sensor - once the cup is removed from the base, it registers as taken?
Hero Solves the "did I take that or did I mean to take that...or did I take it yesterday?" issue. I also like the access code, and wouldn't mind biometric recognition down the road. My 8-year old prides himself on breaking into my iPad and phone. "Ha, Mom, I guessed your new password." I wouldn't want my little digital lock picker to get medications.
@runningdmc Great idea. HERO also lets you know by app/text if it's been unplugged, in case your little digital lock picker is strong and tall enough to grab it from the kitchen counter!
@kutakdogan I noticed people are asking for refunds on your crowdfunding campaign and nobody from your company is responding. Any updates you can share?
@michaele_harrington We've had a very small number of requests for refunds due to the delay in launching, but we've addressed those customers and hope that everyone is as excited as we are for HERO to launch in spring 2018!
We have apps and devices to track pretty much everything these days. With HERO we wanted to build a simple and delightful way to track medicine and supplements.
HERO is a smart appliance and mobile app that stores, dispenses and manages vitamins and medicine for you and your family.
Here are some of our favorite HERO features:
• Dispense your medicine on schedule or on demand at the push of a button
• Store up to 10 different types of pills -- any size, any shape
• Receive notifications when it is time to take your pills, whether you’re at home or on the go
• Receive alerts about loved ones, so you don't have to wonder if Mom took her pills this morning
• Share HERO with your whole family, while still keeping your own pills safe and secure
• Know if you are running low and order refills
HERO ships Summer 2016 and we’re accepting pre-orders starting today. As a special thank you, we're offering Product Hunters a special $50 discount.
Thank you for the support. Let us know what you think...
@kalvepuri Can you please let me know the best way to get in touch. I would love to feature Hero in an upcoming article.
@michaele_harrington Hi Michaele! The best way to get in touch with us is hello@herohealth.com or +1-929-260-HERO (4376). Thank you for your continued interest in HERO!
Can we use this for Skittles? :)
All joking aside guys, great work. I can see this being very handy for people. Best of luck.
@dannyfiorentini M&M's too. And Junior Mints. Basically the last three years have been about taking Pez dispensers to the next level ;)
Some medicines should be maintained at room temperature and should be air-tight .How do you handle this inside the hero dispenser ?
@karthrenkarajan This is something we are thinking about for the future, but currently we don't address airtight compartments.
@aemholland You're spot-on! These were our number one goals when designing HERO. The current user experience of taking and tracking vitamins/meds is just plain awful. HERO is here to fix that. Thanks!
Hello!
I think your product is going to help so many PEOPLE!
However I have an alternative use case you may want to consider..
I have a friend who has a really sick dog and he complains that it's a full time job administering meds..
This leads me to conclude that your product will help people keep track of PET medications as well! ;)
I know this is a small niche market..
But I hope this was still beneficial for you to read! :)
Thanks,
Jaswinder Brar
You guys hit the nail on the head with the alerts about loved ones. That may be the biggest reason these things become popular.
@bizstoryteller Thanks. We think so, too. Several of us here at HERO have personal experience with loved ones who need extra monitoring, and believe that feature especially could really improve the lives of not only those taking vitamins and medicine, but the people who care for them as well.
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