medication adherence

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• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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

• 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

• National Consumers League – National Medication Adherence Campaign

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 127
  As Robin illustrated in her post , poor medication adherence results in poor health outcomes for millions of Americans, and costs billions of dollars in increased medical costs.  When three-quarters of Americans concede they don’t take their prescription medications as directed, we are faced with a public ...
  3 weeks ago

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