We found the pharmaceutical remedy.
We are pharmacists who believe everyone should have access to the medication they need, regardless of financial status. Our mission is to solve the financial and environmental problems of prescription waste by legally collecting unused, good condition prescription medication to share with patients who could not otherwise afford it. By treating extra medication as a resource and through partnerships with lawmakers, providers, advocates, pharmacists, nonprofits and patients, we strive to ensure no patient in need goes without.
Our Values
1. RemediChain strives to solve the financial and environmental problems of prescription waste.
No viable prescription drugs should be wasted while a patient goes without lifesaving medications.
2. Price should not prevent patients from accessing the medications they need.
We help connect unused, unexpired medications from patients who don’t need them with patients who do.
3. Make prescription donation and reuse an accessible and acceptable practice across the world.
RemediChain has made great strides in making prescription donation legal in the United States, and we are actively working to make dispensing those drugs legal nationwide. Eventually, such a program can and should be global in nature. Read about our organization’s efforts towards these changes here.
How RemediChain works:
1. Tennessee law allows anyone in the United States to legally donate a variety of unexpired,
unused, and good condition medications to RemediChain at its Memphis facility.
This includes pills, patches, inhalers, injectables, over-the-counter medications, prescription drugs and specialty medications.
2. RemediChain’s inventory of donated medication is safe.
Every donation is inspected by a licensed pharmacist prior to being logged into inventory. Only unopened, unexpired drugs in good condition are accepted. Drugs that do not meet RemediChain’s standards are appropriately destroyed.
3. Qualifying patients will receive their medications fast.
Qualification is based on the patient’s specific needs, their resident state laws, and a complete financial picture. Many RemediChain patients have insurance but struggle to afford the necessary
co-pay on pricey prescriptions or can’t wait on lengthy prior authorizations.
News About RemediChain.
July 6th, 2018
Fedex Institute of Technology joins:
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/money/business/development/2018/07/06/fedex-instituteannounces-partnership-pharmaceutical-company/764353002/
October 30, 2018
Memphis Business Journal Article “Memphis company, university develop blockchain plan
for pharma innovation.”
https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/2018/10/30/memphis-company-university-develop-blockchain-plan.html
November 1st, 2018
Lipscomb University joins consortium
https://www.lipscomb.edu/news/new-collaboration-use-blockchain-technology-improveprescription-care-underinsured-patients
November 1, 2018
MedScape Article “OK to give leftover chemo meds to needy patients in TN”
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/904221
November 6, 2018
APhA Article
https://www.pharmacist.com/article/memphis-company-university-develop-blockchain-plan-pharmainnovation
December 12, 2018
High Ground News Article “Good Shepherd Pharmacy uses new technology to facilitate
medication sharing across the U.S.”
https://www.highgroundnews.com/features/GoodShepherdBlockchain.aspx
January 1 2019
MedScape Article- “Allow docs to recycle chemo pills already” (Phil comments)
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/907406
February 5, 2019
Drug Topics Article “RemediChain to connect patients with costly meds”
https://www.drugtopics.com/view/remedichain-connect-patients-costly-meds
April 30 2019
MedScape Article- FDA Blockchain Pilot “Cancer drug recycler chosen for FDA pilot”
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/912383
July 7, 2019
University of Memphis joins consortium
https://www.memphis.edu/mediaroom/releases/2019/july/remedichain.php
August 16, 2019
Fox 13 News Story on RC- 4 minutes
https://youtu.be/aRy0wIykiUc
September 26, 2019
Memphis Business Journal- Innovation Award
https://memphismagazine.com/business/2019-innovation-awards-remedichain/
October 7th, 2019
Proto Magazine, Massachusetts General Hospital “What Blockchain could do”
http://protomag.com/articles/what-blockchain-could-do
October 17, 2019
Nashville Hashed Health presentation (audio)
https://hashedhealth.com/phil-baker-meetup/
January 1, 2020
Harvard Business Review (Business Case Study) “Good Shepherd Pharmacy and Remedi-
Chain: Will this blockchain deliver donated drugs to needy patients?”
https://store.hbr.org/product/good-shepherd-pharmacy-and-remedichain-will-this-blockchain-deliverdonated-drugs-to-needy-patients/NA0613
January 13th 2020
Forbes Article “The circular economy and sustainability powered by blockchain”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/01/13/the-circular-economy-and-sustainabilitypowered-by-blockchain/?sh=7f395f22b8cf
February 5, 2020
MedScape Article- “Groundbreaking cancer drug recycling at major U.S. center”
(Phil comments)
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/924809
February 21,2020
MedScape Article- “Recycling of unused oral cancer drugs endorsed by ASCO.”
(Phil comments)
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/925527
April 17, 2020
CoinDesk Article “5 ways blockchain tech can help us during the pandemic”
https://www.coindesk.com/five-ways-blockchain-tech-can-help-us-during-this-pandemic
March 10, 2020
MedScape Article- “Text #FlipYourScrip to easily donate unused drugs.”
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/926524
March 31, 2020
Blockchain Research Institute “Reclaiming medication on the blockchain”
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/remedichain/
August 24, 2020
Tuskegee University joins consortium
https://www.tuskegee.edu/news/tuskegee-university-first-black-college-to-join-remedichainmemphis-based-blockchain-consortium
December 9, 2020
Cal Fussman Podcast, “Hey, Everyone, Phil’s got free drugs”
https://www.calfussman.com/podcasts/2020/12/29/hey-everyone-phils-got-free-drugs
April 26, 2021
Leftover Pills are Saving Lives: The Promise of prescription Drug ‘Recycling’
https://www.wknofm.org/news-and-features/2021-04-26/leftover-pills-are-saving-lives-the-promiseof-prescription-drug-recycling
August 4, 2021
A look at far-right militia groups post-insurrection, Recycling Prescriptions
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/04/1024749717/a-look-at-far-right-militia-groups-post-insurrection-recyclingprescriptions
August 15, 2021
“Flip Your Scrip”
https://fullmeasure.news/news/shows/flip-your-scrip-08-12-2021
How to donate unused meds video:
https://youtu.be/1EfeG_t6kjA
We Believe in Memphis Interview
https://vimeo.com/298036816
Healing a broken pharmaceutical industry.
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