Are Smart Bottles the Solution to Medication Non-Adherence?
A brief look at the cost and generated data related to smart medication bottles By definition, adherent patients commit to a complete process of filling prescriptions, picking up the medications, taking every dose of the medication and request for a refill, until the healthcare provider…
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…