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MedSmart
Taking your medications on-time is as important as what medications are being taken. With MedSmart on your side, you no longer have to worry about missing a dose, taking the wrong dose or skipping a dose altogether.
Organize : Remind : Dispense : Monitor
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Facts and Figures - Non-Compliance An Avoidable Epidemic
MedSmart is a break-through product designed to address one of the biggest problems in healthcare – non-adherence. Classified as “the world’s other drug problem”, non-adherence to medication regimens accounts for more than 10% of older adult hospital admissions and one out of four nursing home admissions, resulting in over $100 billion in expenditures each year in the US.
Of the patients prescribed medications in the United States it is estimated that:
- a third take all of their medications as prescribed
- a third take some of their medications
- a third do not take their prescribed medications at all
More Facts on Non-Compliance
- 23% of caregivers reports problems with medication management(1)
- Costs of non-compliance is over $100 Billion to US Health Care Delivery System (2)
- 11.3% of all elderly hospital admissions were due to medication non-compliance (3)
- More than 125,000 Americans die as a result of failure to follow their prescribed therapeutic regimen(4)
- Only 50% of the people typically follow their doctor’s orders when it comes to taking their prescription drugs (5)
- Family Caregiving in the US”, National Alliance for Caregiving/AARP, June 1997
- Levy S. Beep: Drug Topics, www.drugtopics.com 1999
- Col N Fanale JE, Kronholm P. The role of medication noncompliance and adverse drug reactions in the elderly.., Arch Intern Med, 1990
- Rodgers PT, Ruffin DM, Medication non-adherence, Manager Care Conference, 1998
- World Health Organization, 2003
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