Rx Safes Offers Grant Writing Services to Potential Clients

Rx Safes, Inc., a company specializing in biometric security for prescription drug access, has announced an ingenious new initiative to help gets its products to clients: It will provide them with the services of a grant writer. Non-profit organizations will be able to use Rx Safes’ grant writing services to craft professional and persuasive grant applications for government funding to help them purchase Rx Safes’ RxDrugSAFE product.

RxDrugSAFE is essentially a lock box designed specifically for the storage of prescription drugs. It features biometric technology that requires users to scan their fingerprints for access, permitting access only to those who are authorized. The idea is to provide a useful tool in the ongoing effort in America to combat prescription drug abuse, shifting the focus from ‘take-back’ programs aiming to retrieve stolen drugs to what the company calls the “first line of defense” – making sure the drugs can’t be stolen in the first place.

Speaking in a press release, Rx Safes CEO Lorraine Yarde asserted that even though ‘take-back’ efforts help to get some drugs out of the wrong hands, “there are still billions of pills in homes used by patients with chronic conditions or recovering from injuries and these remain unsecured and easily accessible to young children and teenagers.” She added that “Rx DrugSAFE offers a viable solution to prevent unauthorized access to these dangerous drugs while still maintaining convenient access for the prescribed patient.”

While the concept of a biometric lock box is not new, few have specifically targeted the safekeeping of prescription medications. Last fall Omnicell won a contract to provide a biometric locking system for a North Carolina medical centre’s medication cabinets, for example; but generally this kind of technology has so far proven most popular in deployments such as securing data centres. Given the increasing preponderance of such systems, however, and government’s increasing interest in the technology, Rx Safe’s grant writers may be able to find a number of sympathetic readers.

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March 26, 2015 – by Alex Perala