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The Future of Medication Adherence, Part 1
Medication adherence results in an extra $290 billion in costs, due to unnecessary hospital admissions, doctor visits, and lab tests, as well as impacting quality of life for patients. BioPlus...
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Patient Portals Pay Off
Over the past few years, the number of prescribers using electronic health record (EHR) systems has doubled (from 17 to 34 percent). This is just the beginning, with the 2009 federal Health Information...
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Technology Goals: Connecting Patients, Providers, and Payers
A faster, easier, and more complete flow of information between health insurers and healthcare providers will result in more effective therapeutic outcomes for patients – and a better bottom line,...
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Facing the Next Disaster with Better Technology
As Hurricane Sandy made landfall, many hospitals throughout the region faced the difficult decision of whether to care in place for their patients after their generators failed or evacuate patients to...
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Tightening Health Care Belts, Without Feeling the Pinch
BioPlus TAP App – Therapy Access Portal As it is right now, health care costs account for a shocking 17.6 percent of the United States’ GDP (gross domestic product), according to data from the...
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eReferrals: Streamlining Specialty Access
A few years back, when San Francisco General Hospital administrators took a closer look at patient access to specialty care, they were dismayed to find patients waiting up to 11 months for referrals to...
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Medication Compliance? There’s an App for That
Guest Blog: Joshua C. Vogt, M.D., Rochester, MN Ever have trouble remembering to take your medications? Even with a single daily pill, it’s easy to miss a dose here and there each month. Now imagine...
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I’ll Say It Again: Reminders Work
Taking each and every pill at the right time, every time is not as easy as it sounds. Most patients treating a disease find it hard to remember to take their medications completely in accord with the...
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E-Prescribing: A Prescription For Better Patient Outcomes
Surescripts, which is a nationwide network connecting the computer systems of physicians and pharmacies, recently released their annual report on e-prescribing. This survey offers a snapshot of the...
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The Team Approach
Patients facing serious, complex, or chronic diseases truly benefit from a team of professionals – as well as family and friends – working and rooting for their best possible health outcome. There are...
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The Future of Medication Adherence, Part 1
Medication adherence results in an extra $290 billion in costs, due to unnecessary hospital admissions, doctor visits, and lab tests, as well as impacting quality of life for patients. BioPlus...
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Patient Portals Pay Off
Over the past few years, the number of prescribers using electronic health record (EHR) systems has doubled (from 17 to 34 percent). This is just the beginning, with the 2009 federal Health Information...
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Technology for Better, Safer Care
The United States medical system seems to be spinning its wheels when it comes to patient safety, as Harvard researchers Ashish Jha, M.D. and David Classen, M.D. pointed out a few days ago in their...
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Smoothing the Road for Technology
There is no doubt that electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) improves patient safety and saves time for physicians and pharmacies. So if there’s only an up-side to this technological advance, why...
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Knocking Down Adherence Barriers
It doesn’t matter how good a medication is for treating a disease, it can’t work if a patient doesn’t take it. There are many barriers that can get in the way of a patient complying with their...
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Reaching Across the Cultural Divide
Medication adherence is the most important predictor of patient outcome. Poor compliance to a prescribed treatment plan not only affects the individual patient, but affects the entire healthcare...
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Lose the Lecture
Medication adherence is a well-known problem across the board, but the stakes are even higher with the treatment of certain diseases, such as HIV, hepatitis C, and cancer. How a health professional...
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The Buzz of ‘Patient Engagement’
More informed patients get more involved in their own health care – and that leads to better health. Technology advances make this process of involvement easier than ever, which was the topic of this...
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Getting the Cure to Those Who Need It
Consider these two facts: Chronic infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a life-threatening disease. There are now medications that can cure HCV in most people. So why isn’t this disease already...
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Staying With the Patient
Medication adherence issues account for a significant portion of avoidable health care costs each year, through drug waste, treatment failure, and medical complications. Identifying ways to improve...
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