Technology
WAKE 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 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 MorePATIENT ENGAGEMENT–The New Call to Action for Clinicians
Marilyn Standifer Shreve is a clinical pharmacist who led California’s efforts to become the first state to implement policies and regulations that authorize electronic transmission of prescriptions (e-prescribing). Over the last ten years, there has been much discussion within the healthcare industry about patient-centered care or improving the experience of patients. However, in a 21st…
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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