Patient noncompliance is as old as the practice of medicine itself. Throughout history, providers have struggled with getting patient to adhere to the prescribed plan-of-care, often with little success. In these times the problem has been greatly amplified by the advent of complex, costly drug therapies, the emergence of a complicated and fragmented health care delivery network, and the typical difficulties patients face navigating through their daily lives.
Patient noncompliance, defined as a patient's failure to follow an agreed-upon prescribed plan of care, is a significant health problem, costing the U.S. healthcare system upwards of $177 billion annually. With more than half of all patients assumed to be noncompliant, over 125,000 deaths each year are attributed to poor adherence. Twenty-one percent of all prescriptions are never dispensed, and 40% are never refilled.
AssistMed’s Patient Adherence Solutions are designed expressly to empower stakeholders to extend and maintain continuous influence over the ambulatory patient, delivering personalized care instructions, promoting medication compliance and persistency, facilitating variance monitoring and timely interventions, reducing operational costs, and improving outcomes and revenue predictability.
Adherence to a variety of critical-care elements is addressed, including medications, self-care procedures, exercises, appointments, and data collection. Capabilities include:
- Care plan provision and optimization
- Adherence reminders
- Persistency and Rx refill management
- Patient journaling
- Incentives and Rewards
- Variance monitoring
- Secure, encrypted Patient/Provider communications
AssistMed is proud to offer the following software solutions that may be used in either a stand-alone or integrated mode:
Clinication™ is AssistMed's flagship adherence management system, a robust Web-based application which integrates patients, providers, and nonprofessional caregivers in support of continuous care-plan adherence.
CellPly™ is a pure mobile-phone-based environment, which provides complete portability of adherence management services, on virtually any data-enabled cell phone model.
ServPly™ is a suite of adherence management web services which utilizes SOAP protocols and XML-based messaging in provisioning secure, encrypted adherence-related transactions.