For two healthcare organizations, care transitions began to improve when they focused less on readmissions data and more on their patients. Retooled patient handovers — a subtle but significant shift in terminology from 'patient handoff' — and recorded discharge instructions were...
Mango Health, a Rock Health startup focused on using gamification principles to tackle medication adherence, launched its titular app after months of beta testing, a 16-week pilot, and not a small amount of hype. The company has raised $3 million so far.
Medication adherence is considered to be a $290...
Medication adherence is a huge problem, and it’s one that seems solvable. People fail to take the pills prescribed to them for many reasons, but one of the biggest is forgetfulness, especially among elderly patients who take a lot of medications and can easily become confused.
Pillboxes have always...
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Last month, Vitality made their GlowCap pill container caps available for direct-to-consumer purchase from CVS. The company has also been quietly developing a new product, the Vitality GlowPack, a customizable pouch which provides similar functionality to the GlowCap. The advantage to the GlowPack is...
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Physicians have strong feelings about mobile apps tied to EHRs, according to a January 2013 online survey by eClinicalWorks. Results from the survey, taken by 2,291 healthcare respondents and including 649 physicians, show providers want their patient engaged and see clear benefits in health outcomes...
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For one reason or another, as many as half the patients in the United States don’t take the medication that is prescribed to them at a cost to the US healthcare system of $290 billion a year in waste. That’s according to NEHI, formerly known as the New England Healthcare Institute, which...
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