Help provided for prescribed medicine's intructions

People who are visually impaired often struggle to take their medications. Many can't read the instructions, and risk taking an overdose, or the wrong medication. In this week's medical report, Doctor Peter Ostrow has details on a high-tech device that can change all that.
What if you had to take several different medications and you couldn't read the labels?
Bruce Carpenter is one of over 400 severely visually impaired veterans in Western New York who have that problem.

Elaine Powers, VA. & WNY Healthcare System coordinates their care. But now there's a device that can read special medication labels and tell patients what to do. Beep, when it clicks like that take tablet as directed in Coumadin Clinic.

So he no longer has to depend on help with every pill.

When his prescriptions are filled, a computer prints a special label that has a microchip embedded in it. The information in the label is read by the machine, and there's more.
"To refill this prescription, call 212."

The V.A. really is in the lead on this technology. They started the program in July and will be offering it to all patients who might benefit.

The device has a bit of an electronic accent, it says Cou-mah-din instead of Coumadin, but it really is easy to understand.

The more help people can get with medications, the better off they'll be.