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I don’t know if a pill reminder app rises to the level of importance where a critical alert is needed. There are only five apps on my phone, out of over a hund
by os2warpman 1y ago
I don’t know if a pill reminder app rises to the level of importance where a critical alert is needed.
There are only five apps on my phone, out of over a hundred, that use critical alerts.
PulsePoint, if someone near me is having a heart attack
Messages, if one of my kids is in trouble
Health, if I am having a heart attack
Home, if my smoke alarm is going off
ActiveAlert, my fire department’s dispatch notification app, which will tell me where to drive the ambulance if someone is having a heart attack
If I’m in a darkened theater and someone nearby needs cpr, my house is on fire, or one of my kids is in trouble I want the phone to make a sound.
I want someone else’s phone to make a sound if they get those notifications, too.
If it’s time to take their atorvastatin I don’t give a shit their phone better stay shut the hell up.
If someone’s calendar app slipped through the cracks and got permission to issue critical alerts, THAT is the problem, not the fact that a pill reminder app can’t.
- Martinussen 1y agoIf I miss the dosing window by more than an hour or so it'll either ruin my sleep or ruin my day after lunch, I have responsibilities and can easily lose track of time for an hour or two while working or in meetings, so the iOS medication reminders are very useful to me personally, at least. edit: though if I remember or see the initial reminder and log it, it obviously won't go off with sound. If it pings, I've basically always already forgotten.
- xattt 1y agoWith all due respect and without knowing your clinical history at all, this level of sensitivity to a statin probably warrants a review of your med with your provider.
- xtajv 1y agoNo it doesn't. Some of us are just like, really particular about schedules. (The internet is full of weirdos, sorry).
- Martinussen 1y agoSorry, maybe/probably should have clarified I meant a different medication - meant to comment more on the general utility.
- BrandonSmith 1y agoNow evaluate a glucometer.
- os2warpman 1y agoBluetooth-enabled continuous glucose monitors are medical devices and have access to critical alerts.
- kalleboo 1y ago> I don’t know if a pill reminder app rises to the level of importance where a critical alert is needed Doesn't that depend a lot on the types of pills a person takes and their mental needs? > If it’s time to take their atorvastatin I don’t give a shit their phone better stay shut the hell up. I have it on good authority that some people's phones even make sounds when they get something as trivial as a phone call
- TZubiri 1y agoBut not in dnd
- worthless-trash 1y agoJust because you don't have to roll for initii....