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• The Diabetes Technology Society: From Algorithms to Adherence

  
  DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog — Authority: 537
  The Diabetes Technology Society held its annual meeting last Thursday through Saturday, which always takes place just about a mile and a half from my house. But guess what? This was the very first year that I found myself on the inside of this exclusive event, participating in a panel (the very last panel of [...]
  2 days ago

• Five Opportunities for Our Health System to Improve

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  The following guest post on the subject of drug adherence is written by Janet Wright , Senior Vice President, Science & Quality, at American College of Cardiology. If the Disruptive Women series on medication adherence has shown anything, it’s that there is a nearly endless number of potential solutions ...
  3 days ago

• Drug Adherence Tools That Meet Patients Where They Are

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  The following guest post on the subject of drug adherence is written by Julie Murchinson , Founder, Health 2.0 Accelerator and Managing Director with Manatt Health Solutions. The tools are coming! The tools are coming! For a while now, tools to manage drug adherence have been developed, many designed to enable ...
  5 days ago

• Taking medicine for HIV proves hard to swallow for many people

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 126
  Highly active antiretroviral therapy has increased the longevity and quality of life for people living with human immunodeficiency virus. But it requires strict adherence in taking the medicine, something that is extremely difficult for many individuals to do.Two new University of Washington studies illustrate just ...
  5 days ago

• Metaphil received ISO 9001:2000 certification again

  
  PinoyBusiness.ORG - Home — Authority: 134
  The Aboitiz company’s Metaphil is once again recommended by TUV SUD for certification maintenance of the prestigious ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System, with design. An ISO certification is sought by most companies because it is a proof of the companies’ adherence to global quality standards and its ...
  6 days ago

• Note to New Readers

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  For those of you who are visiting our blog for the first time, you will notice several blog posts on the topic of drug adherence.  From time to time Disrutpive Women tackles a particularly vexing issue and runs a series of posts that we then compile into an e-book.   If you are interested in an overview of our ...
  1 week ago

• Medication Adherence: Bring on the “Carrots.” Hold the “Sticks”

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  My initial enthusiasm for blogging on the subject of adherence policy “carrots and sticks” faded the more I contemplated the disputes that would arise by suggesting “sticks,” so mostly I’ll – pardon the pun – “stick” to “carrots.” In recent weeks these blog pages have been filled with ways to ...
  1 week ago

• Just a Spoonful of Sugar: How Healthy Gaming Can Support Drug Adherence

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  I’ve always been someone who (pretty much) does what I’m told. When my parents or a doctor told me “Take your medicine”, I complied. However, I remember a number of years ago when I was taking an antibiotic for a bad kidney infection; I started to feel better and I wondered why I should continue to take the ...
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• Improving Adherence with the Help of Pharmacies

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  The following post – part of Disruptive Women’s Drug Adherence Series – is by Stacey Irving of McKesson Patient Relationship Solutions. Poor medication adherence affects all of us in healthcare — it’s a problem that our entire industry is trying to tackle. By many estimates, more than 50% of patients ...
  1 week ago

• A healthcare and medication organizer that could help medication adherence

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  For many years I was a caregiver and advocate for my family and friends. I discovered that taking their medications correctly was one of the main problems.  The struggle occurred mostly because they were often taking multiple medications prescribed by numerous physicians, and using various pharmacies to fill their ...
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• Medication Adherence Requires a Team-based Approach

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  As our population ages the importance of one’s ability to remain independent as long as possible will become even more important than it is today. One of the leading causes for the placement of a frail adult in a nursing home is due to non-adherence to medication regimes. In fact, 10 to 25 percent of hospital and ...
  1 week ago

• Comelec tells late registrants to return on Tuesday

  
  PinoyBusiness.ORG - Home — Authority: 134
  Because typhoon Santi has caused power interruption in some parts of Metro Manila and Southern Luzon, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is making some leeway on its strict adherence to a ‘no extension’ of voters’ registration. The Comelec yesterday said it will allow registrants in its offices who were ...
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• Got Meds: Drug Adherence for Young People with Chronic Medical Conditions

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  If medication adherence is a problem for adults, consider how difficult it is for young people with chronic medical conditions. Alternate flavorings, formulations, and suspensions can help the medicine go down in children.  But what is the solution when taste is not the problem?  One approach we need to take is to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Medication Adherence and Medicare’s Part D Prescription Drug Program

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  If only it were an urban legend that senior citizens in the United States were cutting their physician-prescribed pills in half or ignoring their medications altogether in order to have enough money for food and utilities, but one doesn’t need academic studies to know that this kind of economically-forced ...
  2 weeks ago

• Christian in Somalia Who Refused to Wear Veil is Killed

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 134
  ‘Moderate’ Islamist group had long suspected woman in Puntland was Christian.NAIROBI, Kenya, October 27 (CDN) — Three masked members of a militant Islamist group in Somalia last week shot and killed a Somali Christian who declined to wear a veil as prescribed by Muslim custom, according to a Christian source in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adherence: Working Across Our Boundaries

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  The following guest post — part of our Drug Adherence series — is by Elizabeth Sozanski , who is currently Senior Director, Global Brand Strategy, and is the former Adherence Leader for AstraZeneca. In that role, she was responsible for building the adherence strategy and initiatives in support of 5 largest ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fat Predator

  
  Drop Fat! — Authority: 145
  Promoting successful weight loss through the adherence of an effective weight loss regimen entails several weight loss practices that should be followed earnestly.  Aside from this, a successful pattern of weight loss, as well as a lasting and permanent stance at weight loss, should also include the aid of several ...
  2 weeks ago

• Drug Adherence: Using Social Cognitive Theory and a PRECEDE/PROCEED Framework

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  Last term, my Program Planning for Health Behavior Change workgroup was charged with using theory to help explain a health behavior and design a targeted intervention.  With several MDs in my group, we chose improving warfarin adherence to reduce risk of stroke in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation. 2.2 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taking Medicine For HIV Proves Hard To Swallow For Many People

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 144
  Highly active antiretroviral therapy has increased the longevity and quality of life for people living with human immunodeficiency virus. But it requires strict adherence in taking the medicine, something that is extremely difficult for many individuals to do. Two new University of Washington studies illustrate ...
  2 weeks ago

• Phospholipase B. Virulent factor. Fungal invasion. “… New Zealand albino rabbits covered with contact lenses.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 131
  “To determine the virulence of extracellular phospholipase B (PLB) of Candida albicans in keratomycosis.” 1 Researchers from the State Key Lab Cultivation Base, Shandong Provincial Key Lab of Ophthalmology, Shandong Eye Institute, in Qingdao, Shandong, China; have presented an article titled: “Role of ...
  2 weeks ago

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