{"id":45703,"date":"2024-11-07T13:58:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=45703"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:05:31","slug":"ios-18-health-app-medications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/07\/ios-18-health-app-medications\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 18: Health App Medications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2024-10-28-Health-App-Medications.html\">Joe Rosensteel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2024-10-28-Health-App-Medications.html\">\n<p>It doesn&rsquo;t list interactions for things that are <em>not<\/em> in the medication app, like vitamin supplements, antacids, NSAID painkillers, etc. All of which had very clear, urgent warnings in the prescription paperwork, but because they aren&rsquo;t the two medications in the app there&rsquo;s no warning.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Despite being able to OCR the prescription info, there&rsquo;s nothing to OCR the side effects info and log that.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I needed to take it once a day but the number of pills started high and tapered off twice over the following days. The app lets you put in a dosage to schedule, but I couldn&rsquo;t find any way to vary it over time.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This was also a drug that should be taken with food, but there&rsquo;s not a &ldquo;hey, eat something&rdquo; notification you can configure to come up before it&rsquo;s time to take the drug. The antibiotic should <em>really<\/em> not be taken at a time anywhere near when you&rsquo;re going to eat certain things, or even have most vitamin supplements, so I also have to mentally track when I do those things too.<\/p>\n<p>Another quirk is that the notification to take your medications comes through on the Watch without mention of which medication you need to take[&#8230;] It&rsquo;s also <em>always<\/em> plural, even if you&rsquo;re only taking one medication at 1:00 PM, which is confusing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/ios-18\/\">iOS 18<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/21\/better-medication-tracking\/\">Better Medication Tracking<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"ios-18-health-app-medications-update-2025-06-04\">Update (<a href=\"#ios-18-health-app-medications-update-2025-06-04\">2025-06-04<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@jgordon\/114619955938869341\">John Gordon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@jgordon\/114619955938869341\"><p>Apple&rsquo;s med app is a typical Apple product - pretty looks, does 80% of what you need, drops you off the nearest cliff.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rosensteel: It doesn&rsquo;t list interactions for things that are not in the medication app, like vitamin supplements, antacids, NSAID painkillers, etc. All of which had very clear, urgent warnings in the prescription paperwork, but because they aren&rsquo;t the two medications in the app there&rsquo;s no warning. 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