Comment by os2warpman | Hacker News Reader

Comment by os2warpman | Hacker News Reader

I don’t know if a pill reminder app rises to the level of importance where a critical alert is needed.

There are only five apps on my phone, out of over a hundred, that use critical alerts.

PulsePoint, if someone near me is having a heart attack

Messages, if one of my kids is in trouble

Health, if I am having a heart attack

Home, if my smoke alarm is going off

ActiveAlert, my fire department’s dispatch notification app, which will tell me where to drive the ambulance if someone is having a heart attack

If I’m in a darkened theater and someone nearby needs cpr, my house is on fire, or one of my kids is in trouble I want the phone to make a sound.

I want someone else’s phone to make a sound if they get those notifications, too.

If it’s time to take their atorvastatin I don’t give a shit their phone better stay shut the hell up.

If someone’s calendar app slipped through the cracks and got permission to issue critical alerts, THAT is the problem, not the fact that a pill reminder app can’t.

If I miss the dosing window by more than an hour or so it'll either ruin my sleep or ruin my day after lunch, I have responsibilities and can easily lose track of time for an hour or two while working or in meetings, so the iOS medication reminders are very useful to me personally, at least.

edit: though if I remember or see the initial reminder and log it, it obviously won't go off with sound. If it pings, I've basically always already forgotten.

With all due respect and without knowing your clinical history at all, this level of sensitivity to a statin probably warrants a review of your med with your provider.

No it doesn't.

Some of us are just like, really particular about schedules.

(The internet is full of weirdos, sorry).

Sorry, maybe/probably should have clarified I meant a different medication - meant to comment more on the general utility.

> I don’t know if a pill reminder app rises to the level of importance where a critical alert is needed

Doesn't that depend a lot on the types of pills a person takes and their mental needs?

> If it’s time to take their atorvastatin I don’t give a shit their phone better stay shut the hell up.

I have it on good authority that some people's phones even make sounds when they get something as trivial as a phone call

But not in dnd

Just because you don't have to roll for initii....

Now evaluate a glucometer.

Bluetooth-enabled continuous glucose monitors are medical devices and have access to critical alerts.

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