Marisa Torrieri, Physicians Practice
“By now, you’re probably well aware that e-prescribing offers financial benefits — not the least of which includes meeting Stage 1 of CMS’ meaningful use incentive program. But did you know that e-prescribing is also linked with improved patient outcomes and medication compliance rates?
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Ross SE et al, J Med Internet Res, 13(3)
BACKGROUND
Adverse drug events are a major safety issue in ambulatory care. Improving medication self-management could reduce these adverse events. Researchers have developed medication applications for tethered personal health records (PHRs), but little has been reported about medication applications for interoperable PHRs.
OBJECTIVE
Our objective was to develop two complementary personal health applications on a common PHR platform: one to assist children with complex health needs (MyMediHealth), and one to assist older adults in care transitions (Colorado Care Tablet).
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Eric Wicklund, mHIMSS
“One of the critical challenges to the successful adoption of patient-centered healthcare is ensuring that the patient adheres to his or her medication requirements. This means taking the right mediation in the right dose at the right time, with the right outcomes.
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Andrew Hough, The Telegraph
“The tiny edible microchip records precise details of medication programmes through a monitoring “receiver” patch attached to patients’ shoulder or arm.
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Steve Connor, The Independent
“An American biomedical company has signed up with a British healthcare firm to sell digestible sensors, each smaller than a grain of sand, that can trigger the transmission of medical information from a patient’s body to the mobile phone of a relative or carer.
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Zolfaghari M et al, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2012
Aim.
To compare the effectiveness of two methods of follow-up: short message service and telephone follow-up on type 2 diabetes adherence for three months.
Background.
Using telemedicine approaches may preserve appropriate blood glucose levels and may improve adherence to diabetes control recommendations in diabetic patients.
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AnneryanHeatwole, MobileActive.org
“We recently attended the mHealth Summit 2011 to learn more about the latest developments in the mobile health field. The conference brought together developers, practitioners, NGOs, representatives from corporate industries, and government officials to discuss the current state and future of mobile health.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“A project that aims to increase medication adherence in seniors via text message reminders has been awarded a $77,150 mobile health grant.
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Laura Landro, Wall Street Journal
“When it comes to medicine, as many as half of Americans don’t stick to their regimens. They fail to fill about 20% to 30% of prescriptions written by doctors, don’t take drugs as directed, and don’t refill medications when they run out.
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Sheela Philomena, MedIndia
“People using an integrated healthcare system with electronic health records linked to its own pharmacy more often collect their new prescriptions for diabetes, cholesterol and high blood pressure medications, finds study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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KP News Center
“People who receive medical care in an integrated health care system with electronic health records linked to its own pharmacy more often collect their new prescriptions for diabetes, cholesterol and high blood pressure medications than do people who receive care in a non-integrated system, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Patients who receive medical care in an integrated healthcare system with EHRs linked to its own pharmacy are more likely to fill new prescriptions than patients in a non-integrated system, according to a Kaiser Permanente study.
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Petrie KJ et al, British Journal of Health Psychology, 2011
Objective.
While effective preventative medication is readily available for asthma, adherence is a major problem due to patients’ beliefs about their illness and medication. We investigated whether a text message programme targeted at changing patients’ illness and medication beliefs would improve adherence in young adult asthma patients.
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Sahm L et al, Pharmacy World & Science, 31(6)
OBJECTIVE
Low levels of adherence to medication are commonly reported in chronic medical conditions. Empirical evidence suggests that patients are willing to accept pharmacist interventions to improve adherence. This study aimed to assess the levels of self-reported adherence to antidepressant medication in the community and to investigate the acceptability of text message reminders to self-reported unintentional non-adherers.
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PRNewswire
“Of the 428 participants analyzed thus far, the study showed an increase in adherence from 51 to 67% with daily glaucoma therapy using a MEMOTEXT adherence solution integrated with Microsoft HealthVault.
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CMIO
“Medication orders in an EHR can enhance clinicians’ ability to estimate medication adherence, but identifying definitive medication orders is a challenge, according to a brief published online first in the Journal of the American Informatics Association.
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Carroll NM et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2011
We developed an accurate and valid medication order algorithm to identify from electronic health records the definitive medication order intended for dispensing and applied this process to identify a cohort of patients and to stratify them into one of three medication adherence groups: early non-persistence, primary non-adherence, or ongoing adherence. We identified medication order data from electronic health record tables, obtained the orders, and linked the orders to dispensings.
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HealthCanal
“Text messaging and adolescents don’t always mix well, but researchers at National Jewish Health hope text messages can spur teenagers to take their asthma medications more reliably.
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Sara Jackson, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Giving teens iTunes cash in return for taking blood glucose measurements via a smartphone app seems to be working in a new pilot project at the University of Toronto. FierceMobileHealthcare caught up with lead researcher Dr. Joseph Cafazzo to get some early results of what he’s calling an “exciting” mHealth trial.
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Mahmud N et al, Technology and Health Care, 18(2)
Healthcare delivery in the rural developing world is limited by a severe shortage of health workers as well as profound communicative and geographic barriers. Understaffed hospitals are forced to provide care for patients that reside at a great distance from the institutions themselves, sometimes more than 100 miles away. Community health workers (CHWs), volunteers from local villages, have been integral in bridging this patient-physician gap, but still lose enormous of amounts of time in transit between hospital and village.
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