Louise Clinton, Pharmacist at Bourn Hall Clinic, says “There seems to be an app for everything now and we are waiting with interest to trial the new Merck Serono Fertility Patient iPhone App which promises to make remembering when to take your meds easier.”
Merck Serono is a major developer of fertility drugs and has recently introduced the Gonal-F® (follitropin alfa for injection) pen which is used by patients to self administer ovarian stimulation drugs. Although this injector is much easier to use than previous devices, it still takes a bit of getting used to.
Louise explains that every Bourn Hall Clinic patient is shown how to use the injector but there is so much information to take in when you are going through IVF treatment that it is easy to forget something.
The app provides instructions for the use of the pen and a calendar to help remember when to take the medication and the next appointment.
“At Bourn Hall Clinic we always demonstrate the pen and provide a DVD and information leaflet, but as more people get accustomed to using smart phones it will be interesting to see how 
many will prefer to use an app.”
The Merck Serono Fertility Patient iPhone app is to be launched at the BFS Annual Meeting in Leeds on 6th January 2012.
Courtesy : Bourn Hall Clinic Blog, Posted Date : Jan 6, 2012
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