{"id":1014,"date":"2012-06-19T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T13:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2012-06-19T09:08:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T13:08:42","slug":"free-talking-prescription-program-6192012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1014","title":{"rendered":"Free Talking Prescription Program, 6\/19\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Walmart now offering Free Talking Prescription Program\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Walmart announced a pilot program offering the ScripTalk Prescription service through Walmart Mail Order and in 3 store locations.\u00a0 SmarTalk is a system developed by En-Vision America, which reads the information on prescription labels aloud.<\/p>\n<p>An electronic chip embedded in the label of the prescription bottle contains the text of the printed label.\u00a0\u00a0A free ScripTalk reader, which can be obtained by calling En-Vision America at 800-890-1180, is used to listen to the prescription information.<\/p>\n<p>This pilot program is the result of &#8220;structured negotiations&#8221;between Walmart,the American Council of the Blind, the American Foundation for the Blind, and the California Council of the Blind.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1014\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart now offering Free Talking Prescription Program\u00a0 Last week, Walmart announced a pilot program offering the ScripTalk Prescription service through Walmart Mail Order and in 3 store locations.\u00a0 SmarTalk is a system developed by En-Vision America, which reads the information on prescription labels aloud. An electronic chip embedded in the label of the prescription bottle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}