Medication Adherence
Predictive Analytics=Patient Empowerment
For people with high cholesterol or diabetes, adhering to a medication treatment plan is more than a good idea, it can be essential to their health. Simply prescribing medication and lifestyle changes and expecting a person to comply does not assure health improvement. Achieving improved patient health outcomes can require much more than gentle reminders…
Read MoreWAKE UP! Patients Want Better Access to Mobile Health and Telehealth Tools
According to a recent Pew Internet report, roughly 77% of Americans now own a smartphone. Entrepreneurial strengths will be increasingly important in a rapidly changing healthcare environment of the 21st Century that focuses on the use of “Health IT” to employ tailored communication that effectively engages patients to take an active role in managing their…
Read MoreHere’s to a Technology-assisted HealthCare system “JAILBREAK”
Marilyn Standifer Shreve is a clinical pharmacist who believes that at the heart of our United States healthcare system there must be a relentless effort to improve every American’s health and to sustain their wellness. When it comes to patient-centered care, we have done little in the U.S. to harness or leverage the astounding progress…
Read MoreA PUBLIC HEALTH EPIDEMIC
Marilyn Standifer Shreve is a pioneer in using digital, mobile and interactive technologies as powerful tools to engage patients to take a proactive role in managing their treatment regimens and medication therapies… resulting in lowering the growth of health care costs and improving patient health outcomes. Americans are dying in record numbers from heart disease,…
Read MoreCould a smart toothbrush replace your GP?
Originally published on Friday Nov 25, 2016 on nzherald.co.nz by Liam Dann. We are fast approaching a future where your bathroom mirror and your toothbrush will give you a full health check first thing in the morning, says Michael Gillam, a Silicon Valley based health IT strategist who was in New Zealand last week for…
Read MoreMedication Non-Adherence… A 290 Billion Dollar A Year Challenge
Marilyn Standifer Shreve is a pharmacist who is helping todays clinicians employ ADHERENCE TECHNOLOGY to expand their voice, reach and care beyond the walls of the medial office, pharmacy, hospital and other traditional practice settings. The Problem—the What’s: The health care system in the United States is in crisis. One of the of greatest health…
Read MoreOptimizing Patient Health Outcomes—The How’s:
The World Health Organization (WHO) Adherence Report findings indicate that increasing the effectiveness of Adherence interventions may have a far greater impact on the health of the population than any improvement in specific medical treatments. WHO research supports former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop’s mantra that: “drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take…
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