Marilyn Standifer Shreve is a pioneer in using technology-assisted healthcare to expand the clinician’s voice and reach beyond the walls of traditional practice settings and into a patient’s everyday life. In the past few years, surveys indicate that when it comes to technology-assisted healthcare (telehealth), 70% of patients are comfortable communicating with their healthcare… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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,… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
Published in Managed Health Care Connect on September 23, 2016 Thomas Morrow MD Having officially reached Medicare age, I am amazed that the focus of virtually every conversation with my older friends when we get together is about health, doctor visits, surgical procedures, and medications. It is also interesting how many people talk about their… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading