Breaking news on compliance
Medicinal Cannabis Review Highlights Dilemmas Facing Healthcare Professionals published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Nurses have a responsibility to respect and support patients who use cannabis for medicinal purposes, but must stay within the law and follow professional guidance at all times, according to a research review in the September issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing...
Bleeding In Cirrhosis Patients May Be Reduced By Adherence To Practice Guidelines published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Compliance with practice guideline-recommended treatment for cirrhosis is associated with a reduction in first esophageal variceal hemorrhage (EVH; bleeding), according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. Cirrhosis is a condition in which the liver is permanently scarred or injured...
Gold Standard/Elsevier First To Launch State, Federal Controlled Substance Drug Schedules, Helping Ensure Safe, Compliant Prescribing And Dispensing published
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Gold Standard/Elsevier, developer of drug databases and medication management solutions, announced the availability of its new Alchemy State and Federal module, the first and only database to offer both state and federal controlled substance drug schedules...
Thomson Reuters Expands CareNotes® Patient Education System To Support 15 Languages published
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Thomson Reuters has expanded its Micromedex CareNotes patient education system to include coverage in 15 languages...
Henry Ford Health System Partners With Rexam And Med Time Technology To Remind Patients To Take Prescription Medication "As Prescribed" published
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
A leader in healthcare, Henry Ford Health System will introduce at its hospitals and pharmacies "The Pill Timer," representing a "breakthrough" designed to improve treatment outcomes and reduce adverse drug events often resulting in costly hospital admissions due to poor medication management by patients...
Elsevier Promotes Medication Safety And Compliance Via New MEDcounselor Languages With Consumer Medication Information In 12 Foreign Languages published
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Gold Standard/Elsevier, a leading developer of drug information and medication management solutions, announced the launch of MEDcounselor Languages, a module that provides trusted MEDcounselor consumer medication information in 12 foreign languages...
CVS Caremark Behavioral Change Research Partnership Presents Ongoing Research At Center For Disease Control Symposium published
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) said that preliminary findings from ongoing research about how consumers make health care choices shows that if a consumer is proactively presented with a decision to select automatic versus manual refills before they fill a prescription, they are twice as likely to choose the automatic option than those who are asked after receiving the prescription...
New Micromass Study Shows Metabolic Mindset™ May Be A Valuable Weapon In America's Battle Against Obesity published
Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Behavioral researchers at MicroMass Communications have identified a metabolic mindset™ that could be the key to helping physicians, nurses and other healthcare educators successfully influence patients with type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol to adopt healthier lifestyle changes such as losing weight, eating better, getting more exercise, and giving up cigarettes...
The Role Of New Technologies In Enhancing Compliance To Be Discussed At 7th Annual Patient Adherence & Engagement Summit, October 19-20, Philadelphia published
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Peter Mansell reports on how compliance and personal monitoring technologies can help pharma firms better tailor their offerings to different patient groups. New technology is the lifeblood of drug development. But there is also a parallel stream of technological innovation that addresses how drugs are taken, managed, and monitored in the marketplace...
One In Four Stroke Patients Stop Taking Medication Within Three Months published
Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:00:00 PDT
A quarter of stroke patients discontinue one or more of their prescribed secondary stroke prevention medications within three months of hospitalization for an acute stroke, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the December print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
Improved Drug Coverage Under Medicare Associated With Increases In Antibiotic Use published
Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:00:00 PDT
Antibiotic use appears to have increased among older adults whose prescription drug coverage improved as a result of enrolling in Medicare Part D, with the largest increases for broad-spectrum, newer and more expensive drugs, according to a report in the August 9/23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
Interactive Health Solutions Launches New Program With Physicians To Reduce Medical Costs published
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:00:00 PDT
According to Interactive Health Solutions, Inc. (IHS, interactivehs.com), 63% of adults have not seen a doctor within five years. In order to help battle ever-rising healthcare costs, IHS announced the introduction of Physician Link™ this week a revolutionary program connecting members to their physician, and wellness team, through an integrated communication process...
Doctors Warn That Using Domestic Spoons To Give Children Medicine Increases Overdose Risk published
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Parents are being urged not to use domestic spoons to give children medicine after a study found significant differences in capacity. A parent using one of the biggest domestic teaspoons would be giving their child 192 per cent more medicine than a parent using the smallest teaspoon and the difference was 100 per cent for the tablespoons...
Younger Breast Cancer Patients Most Likely To Discontinue Treatment, Study Finds published
Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:00:00 PDT
About half of breast cancer patients do not take their medication for the recommended period of time, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, USA Today reports (Szabo, USA Today, 6/29)...
Getting Patients To Take Their Asthma Meds published
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Armed with the right information, physicians can play a stronger role in ensuring asthma patients don't waver in taking drugs proven to prevent asthma attacks, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit...
Programs Try Cash Incentives To Get Forgetful Patients To Take Meds published
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The New York Times reports on a new approach to getting patients to take their medications consistently: financial incentives. "One-third to one-half of all patients do not take medication as prescribed, and up to one-quarter never fill prescriptions at all, experts say. Such lapses fuel more than $100 billion dollars in health costs annually because those patients often get sicker...
Health Care Quality Issues: The Disconnect Between Patients And Experts published
Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:00:00 PDT
The Kansas City Star: Improving "health literacy" could help improve patient outcomes and quality. This literacy is "the limited ability to understand the technical jargon, the orders, the prescriptions and the forms coming from doctors, nurses, pharmacists and insurance companies...
How Personalised Outreach Can Boost Adherence published
Tue, 25 May 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Kate Reid, general manager of Atlantis Healthcare UK, outlines the benefits of an individualised approach to non-compliance. "Current research suggests that 50 per cent of patients are non-adherent," says Reid. "More worrisome is the fact that 60 to 70 percent of these patients are deliberately non-adherent...
Consumers Roundup: More Patients Choose High-Deductible Plans; Many Neglect Doctors' Medication Directions published
Mon, 24 May 2010 02:00:00 PDT
A number of news outlets explores consumer health issues. The (Milwaukee) Business Journal: "The number of Americans enrolled in high-deductible health plans has risen to more than 10 million but still represents a small portion of the insurance market, according to a report from insurance group America's Health Insurance Plans...
Irregular Medication Use Puts Seniors At Risk For Falling published
Thu, 20 May 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Older adults increase their chances of falling by not taking their medications as directed, according to an article in the latest edition of the Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological and Medical Sciences (Volume 65A, Number 5)...
Survey Reveals Reasons For Quitting Bladder Medication published
Sat, 15 May 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Nine out of ten patients who discontinued their overactive bladder (OAB) medication said it was because it didn't work as expected or they couldn't tolerate it, according to research in the May issue of the urology journal BJUI...
Experts Try To Fix Problem Of Millions Who Don't Adhere To Prescriptions published
Tue, 11 May 2010 03:00:00 PDT
The Boston Globe: "It is a common conundrum in doctor's offices, clinics, and hospitals across the nation: patients who do not take their medication as directed. It's true for people with high cholesterol, low calcium, diabetes, and asthma. It's even true for patients with the AIDS virus and those who have received life-saving replacement organs...
RealMed To Ease Client Transition To 5010 And ICD-10 Compliance published
Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:00:00 PDT
As medical professionals are keenly aware, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has established timelines for implementation of 5010 Standards by January 1, 2012. These standards cover all electronic transactions including eligibility, claims, claim status, and remittance...
Vitality Selects M2M Module For GlowCap Cellular Connectivity Enabling Medication Adherence Programs published
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Telit Wireless Solutions, Inc., the U.S.-based mobile technology arm of Telit Communications (AIM: TCM), announced that its GE864-QUAD M2M module was selected by Vitality, Inc. as the cellular connectivity module in the company's intelligent pill bottle caps, called GlowCaps. Vitality GlowCaps provide individualized feedback programs that help people improve prescription adherence...
PRISYM ID's Medica Greatly Simplifies FDA And MHRA Compliance published
Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:00:00 PDT
PRISYM ID Limited announced the launch of a new product that allows life science companies to review, validate and record their product labels quickly and efficiently while allowing greater collaboration across the process...
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