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Drug Adherence: A Straightforward Personal Commitment Based On Choice
The following guest post on the subject of drug adherence is written by Joyce A. Cramer. Joyce is Associate Research Scientist at Yale University School of Medicine as well as President of Epilepsy...
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Drug Adherence: Using Social Cognitive Theory and a PRECEDE/PROCEED Framework
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...
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Adherence: Working Across Our Boundaries
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...
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Medication Adherence and Medicare’s Part D Prescription Drug Program
Mary R. Grealy is president of the Healthcare Leadership Council, a coalition of chief executives of the nation’s leading health care companies and organizations. She is also the author of Prognosis:...
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Got Meds: Drug Adherence for Young People with Chronic Medical Conditions
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...
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Medication Adherence Requires a Team-based Approach
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...
View ArticleA healthcare and medication organizer that could help medication adherence
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...
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Improving Adherence with the Help of Pharmacies
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...
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Just a Spoonful of Sugar: How Healthy Gaming Can Support Drug Adherence
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...
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Medication Adherence: Bring on the “Carrots.” Hold the “Sticks”
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...
View ArticleNote to New Readers
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...
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Drug Adherence Tools That Meet Patients Where They Are
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...
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Five Opportunities for Our Health System to Improve
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...
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Payment Reform: A System-wide Solution to Medication Adherence
The following guest post — part of Disruptive Women’s drug adherence series — is written by Valerie Fleishman, Executive Director, New England Healthcare Institute. Patient adherence represents a rare...
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Drug Adherence Throwdown: Disruptive Women Take on America’s Other Drug Problem
Between October and November 2009, Disruptive Women in Health Care analyzed the issues surrounding Drug Adherence and issued a series of posts from a variety of viewpoints and perspectives. In addition...
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Bending the health cost curve by spending more on Rx: adherence can lower costs
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. For every $1 spent on health care in the U.S., 10 cents goes to prescription drugs, 31 cents goes to hospital care, and 27 cents goes to professionals (doctors, dentists, and...
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July 4 ‘To Do’ List: Make Picnic Salad, Gather Beach Toys, Gas-Up Car, Take Meds
By Glenna Crooks. On June 20, New York Times writer Tara Parker-Pope wrote about how FICO, the company with the scores that describe our credit worthiness, has developed a new FICO Medication Adherence...
View ArticleCampaign on Drug Adherence Marks One Year Anniversary
by Sally Greenberg. Last month the Script Your Future campaign, which is increasing public awareness of the importance of medication adherence, marked its one year anniversary with the help of numerous...
View ArticleHelping patients do the work: Minimally disruptive medicine tries to...
My 50-year old husband is an insulin-dependent diabetic who, over the years, has accumulated an array of chronic health conditions: his thyroid has failed, his cholesterol is high, and his...
View ArticleAnthony’s Story: Using a Collaborative Community to Increase Patient Compliance
Sitting with my morning coffee yesterday, I came across the same article many of us did about young Anthony Stokes, a teenager in Atlanta, who after being told that he had six months to live, was...
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