iRxHelper: Refill Alerts and More

This iPhone app aims to do the thinking for you when it comes to prescriptions. iRxHelper, produced by Mountain View, CA-based JAZ Software Solutions, gathers data on yours and your family’s medication histories, and streamlines communication on the subject with your healthcare provider or pharmacy. The $1.99 app tracks your pill count estimates, gauges your refill dates, and notifies you as they’re approaching.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.