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CVS taps a design legend to reinvent the prescription label. Next stop: the pharmacy.

October 18, 2017

Kuang C. Fast Company. October 4, 2017.

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Complicated systems often require more than one change to improve their safety. Poor patient understanding of prescription labels and medication dispensing processes at retail pharmacies contribute to medication errors. This news article discusses a strategy that began with color-coded labels and led to a retail pharmacy implementing redesigned pill bottles that provide an overall prescription regimen.

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