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Consumer Information Regarding Solid Dosage Form IDs.
Parent Information Meant For RX Or OTC Medication IDs.
By FDA regulation, every doctor prescribed, controlled substance, over-the-counter, veterinary and holistic drugs and a increasing variety of tablets, capsules, and soft gels in these classes are required to bear a image or emboss with which its identification can be made. All these distinguishing marks are collectively recognized amongst drug information professionals as imprints. The Food and drug administration has dictated the markings but made no provision for cataloging imprints nor searching catalogs for them.
There have been many pill identification databases produced since the first one was introduced in 1974. The first databases contained a collection of the alphanumeric data as well as the physical properties. Searches are done by an simple string search.
Others have images in books. These resources are not complete, are cumbersome to identify a pill, and are obsolete the same day they were printed. Due to space limitation, and availability, the number of photos of pills is consequently incomplete. In addition, whether the database is in hard copy or the most recent web based, the sad fact is that the pictures are not searchable. Today, with more than 20,000 imprints in the U.S. marketplace, locating a single image from thousands and thousands is a daunting undertaking.
Computer, and later web based data sources, cataloged only alphanumeric information in addition to color, shape and scoring. All competitive databases fail to catalog any logo graphics that may be a part of the imprint. The search mechanisms often consist of a simple match of the alphanumeric details, along with other descriptors like the color, shape and scoring. Any logo graphic is simply discarded in any competing database.
A search of this kind often results in dozens, occasionally over one hundred, possible matches and the user must select the final choice by finding the closest match. Even when the final choice is made, the imprint details are often incomplete simply because no logo image details are integrated into the results screen. This results in the consumer wanting to know if he has discovered his pill or not.
Because uncertainty in selecting the imprint occurs, the most effective tablet and capsule imprint databases understands that mistakes can be easily made when allowing the user to make the final selection when all the imprint features may not be present.
The solid dosage form identification database producers have continued to tweak flawed methodology for incremental improvements in the state of the solid dosage form identification art. But they failed to come up with a good remedy to this problem. Subsequently, any effort to make an identification with competitive databases are neither uncomplicated nor definitive.
It was clear a new paradigm is exactly what was needed.
Drug Identity Information first identified three recurring challenges in the drug identification field:
1. Having to select from a list of products where the user must make the final choice, consequently taking the chance of being wrong.
2. Not having all the information in the imprint displayed to verify the selection made is correct.
3. Unavailability of an ID caused by incomplete databases.
To solve the problems, solutions were first characterized:
To positively and particularly declare the ID, each search of an imprint database must lead to a unique solution.
To confirm that the ID is correct, all the information of the imprint must be recorded and exhibited as confirmation.
To achieve confidence in making an identification (ID), the database must be all-inclusive.
These three criteria were utilized to set goals that would distinguish the Pill ID .com process from other vendors of information in the market. The first objective is achieved by the implementation of our patented process that sets the rules by which both the imprint is cataloged and the user ultimately makes the identification. This also means that a pill identification done on www.pillid.com leads the user to a definitive outcome every time.
The second goal is accomplished by displaying the confirming color, shape and scoring of the dosage form is displayed confirming the pill identification. The display also notifies the user of a potential duplicate imprint when there is one.
Lastly, the third objective is attained by the fact that Pill ID.Com utilizes the most comprehensive database available.
The patented pill identification system is currently available at http://www.drugid.info
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