Jun 14 2006, 9:30 AM EST
News source: Business Wire
Wizzard Software (OTCBB:WIZD) and its subsidiary, MedivoxRx Technologies, are pleased to announce that MAVC Health and Wellness Inc. will distribute Rex-The Talking Prescription Bottle in Canada. Located in Toronto, MAVC Health and Wellness Inc. is a leading provider of high quality, value-added health and wellness programs and products, specializing in a wide range of memory improvement related programs. MAVC is a leader in developing healthcare programs and has become a well known and respected distributor in North America.Rex-The Talking Prescription Bottle is a valuable assistive device for individuals who are elderly, blind, vision impaired, illiterate or who for any reason have difficulty reading or understanding their medication labels. Rex verbally identifies bottle contents through the simple push of a button, and also allows the user to hear recorded medication instructions or any other important message about their medication.
MAVC will distribute Rex-The Talking Prescription Bottle and its fully automated text-to-speech technology to pharmacies who will then dispense medications in Rex to their customers who can benefit from this assistance. The pharmacy technology allows pharmacists to electronically record the label information to the bottle in a natural-sounding, computer-generated voice and works in conjunction with the pharmacy's current software and data. As the pharmacist sends the label information to the printer, the label information is captured by the Rex software, converted into speech and recorded into the bottle.
MAVC will also distribute Rex Starter Kits which can be purchased directly by the consumer for personal use as well as Rex Refill Kits which contain additional bottles. The Starter Kit includes a custom-designed, easy-to-use bottle recorder with a microphone that allows verbal recording of information into the bottle. Thus, the consumer can record their own bottles in addition to obtaining their prescriptions in bottles recorded by the pharmacist. The patient or a patient's helper can then use the bottles for over the counter medications, vitamins, etc. As with bottles recorded by the pharmacist, to playback the recorded information, the users simply press a button on the base of the bottle and listen to the message.
The Rex product line is available directly from MAVC and through the MAVC website, www.memoryresource.com, a unique web site that combines products, programs and services targeted toward improving the quality of life for those with cognitive impairment diseases.
"Our company's mission is to improve the individuals' quality of life with our value-added products and services with unique features. We consider Rex the Talking Bottle to be one of our leading products," said MAVC Health and Wellness Inc. president Paul Aiello.
Aiello points out that there are more than 4 million seniors in Canada, a rapidly growing population, many of whom have difficulties reading or understanding their medication instructions. Specifically, Statistics Canada estimates that by 2016, 16% of all Canadians will be aged 65 and over, a population numbering almost 6 million.
Aiello also acknowledges that the bottle is valuable to many groups, including illiterate, visually impaired and cognitively impaired individuals, as well as for those whom language barriers can create a problem.
"Another important feature of Rex is that it is adaptable to different languages," said Aiello. "Canada is a very multicultural country, with a huge immigrant population; therefore Rex's adaptability to multiple languages is quite beneficial."
While Canada's official languages are French and English, non-official languages are also widely-spoken in Canada, with 5,470,820 people listing a non-official language as a first language. Among the most prevalent non-official first language groups are Chinese (853,745 first-language speak
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