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CVS Health Corp. said Monday that it is now offering braille, large-print and audio prescription labels, a move to expand its services for visually-impaired customers.
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Hy-Vee, Inc. announced Friday that talking prescriptions labels are available in 26 languages to visually- and print-impaired patients.
CVS also has options for Braille and large-print labels on prescription bottles available as well. The CVS Pharmacy app includes Spoken Rx, which lets users hear their prescription labels read aloud.
CVS Pharmacy is expanding an in-app feature for visually impaired patients, which reads prescription information out loud, to all of its nearly 10,000 U.S. locations.
Spoken Rx adds to the existing braille, audio, and large-print accessible prescription label options already available through cvs.com.