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iGuard
Meridian At Home is proud to have partnered with iGuard, an online healthcare service that helps monitor the safety of your medications (including prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, nutritional supplements and herbal extracts).
By registering with iGuard, you will receive FREE updates via email, including:
- A personalized safety report checking your medications for potential side effects, treatment duplication and drug interactions
- Automatic medication safety checks that scan your drug list for the latest drug-drug and drug-disease interactions
- Clinically reviewed safety alerts and recalls that emerge for your medications
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About iGuard Safety Checks
If you have ever tried learning about safety from the insert provided with your medication, you know how difficult it is to read the fine print. iGuard helps you work out which medications you need to watch out for using their risk rating system.
Where do these ratings come from?
iGuard employs a team of doctors and pharmacists to generate risk ratings based on a drug's prescribing information. Their patent-pending, risk rating process involves three steps:
- Their pharmacists use prescribing information and clinical trial results to identify information on serious side effects
- Their physicians assign a Risk Rating based on the likelihood and severity of the side effects
- The final risk ratings also take into consideration how many patients have used the drug, and how long it has been around for
About iGuard Safety Alerts
The clinical team at iGuard continually looks out for new information on the safety of your medications, sending out a short email to you when recalls or alerts arise that could impact your safety. iGuard Drug Safety Alerts contain:
- A summary of the new safety information
- An electronic link to the original source for more information
- A pharmacist written explanation of what the information might mean for you
Where does iGuard get its information from?
iGuard closely monitors regulatory authorities such as the FDA, communications from pharmaceutical companies, and peer-reviewed journals to identify emerging safety information. Their clinical team carefully reviews this information (and any supporting evidence) before sending out a personalized alert to you. Their sources include:
- Food and Drug Administration (US)
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (UK)
- Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia)
- Drug Manufacturers
- Independent Researchers