“As they age, millions of Baby Boomers will develop chronic medical conditions like heart failure, diabetes and arthritis. They will, as a result, end up taking complex medical regimens as prescribed by their physicians. Heart failure patients for example, usually end up taking digoxin, a diuretic or two, potassium supplements, anti-arrhythmic drugs, beta blockers and so forth.
Of course, many people will develop several chronic diseases. For them, it’s not unusual to end up taking 8 to 10 medications per day, or more. Some of these medications should be taken once per day, others twice or more. Some should be taken with food, others without. And these medications have an annoying tendency to interact with each other, sometimes in dangerous ways.”
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers, 16 December 2009
Although I agree with the general idea in this post, unfortunately the Cumbler article does not have an abstract and a review by prof. S. Zalman does not mention the use of EHR or PHR in the survey.