Medisafe

Medication reminder app that tracks doses and prompts patients through complicated treatment regimens.

At a glance

Headquarters: Boston, United States
Founded: 2012
Business model: B2B2C
Products profiled: 1
Operating markets: Israel, United States
Sources cited: 2
In the library since: 16 September 2026

What it does

Medisafe reminds people to take their medication, records whether they did, and can notify a family member when a dose is missed. It was started in 2012 after the founders' father accidentally took a second insulin dose.

Read the full description

Adherence is one of the least glamorous problems in healthcare and one of the most consequential: a medicine not taken produces no benefit, and the reasons it is not taken are usually mundane rather than clinical. A reminder app is a modest intervention aimed squarely at the mundane cases.

The company describes its business as working with pharmaceutical manufacturers on support programmes for patients taking specific therapies, rather than charging the patients using it. That funding structure is worth knowing when reading anything the app recommends, and it is the company's own account of how it earns.