Improving Treatment Adherence Through Digital Health

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Half of people living with chronic illnesses do not take their medications in the way they are prescribed by their care provider, imperiling health outcomes. Several digital health technology (DHT) technology tools have been developed to help, but a lack of patient education complicates efforts. In a new PM Live article, Peter Schueler and Isaac Rodriguez-Chavez of ICON discuss ways to adapt DHT to help boost adherence and improve patient outcomes.

According to the article, “As the patient hasn’t agreed to this treatment plan, a consequence can be non-adherence over time. As an example, published adherence for migraine treatments shows 92.6% of patients are adherent after one month, but that drops to 40.7% after two months, 30.9% after three months and is only 20.8% after six months. A community- based study of initiation rates in chronic disease medications in the US found that 20-30% of patients failed to collect their first prescription.”

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(Source: PM Live, November 28^th, 2022)