Personalized intervention from healthcare professionals is the key to close the care loop through mHealth Technology
Why current medication reminder apps are ineffective for improving adherence Using current medication reminder applications alone, without any interventions from healthcare professionals, are ineffective in improving adherence. In a relatively large, 3-month study by Morwaski et al, patients with uncontrolled hypertension were randomized to using…
An end-to-end solution is needed to effectively improve medication adherence – Overly simple and low-cost devices are ineffective
Study of the effect of reminder devices on medication adherence In the REMIND randomized clinical trial, Choudhry et al. (2017) compared the effect of 3 low-cost reminder devices on medication adherence in a 4-arm, block-randomized clinical trial. They conducted the trial among 53,480 participants across…
Improving adherence of a patient would save payers more than $1,000 per year
Case Study for Hypertension and Hypercholesterolemia Diseases Study done by Sokol et al. has shown how improving medication adherence in non-adherent patients would save payers more than a thousand dollars per patients per year. This number is $1,487 cost saving in all-cause healthcare costs per…
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