More than half of consumers lack confidence in their ability to properly take new medications as directed, according to a survey released by DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing and patient medication management solutions. Among the consumers who had concerns about taking new medications correctly, two-thirds blamed their anxiety on a lack of time with physicians at the point of care.Survey BackgroundThe online survey of 200 consumers was 40 percent male and 60 percent
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Sempre Health and UPMC Health Plan Expand Program to Improve Adherence for Critical Medications
Sempre Health, a solution for advancing behavior-based pricing reductions for medication adherence, and UPMC Health Plan, which is part of UPMC, the second largest integrated health system in the U.S., today announced an expanded collaboration to improve affordability and adherence for critical medications. Starting this week, Sempre Health and UPMC Health Plan will now make additional medications available to even more members and products lines to impact members’ outcomes.Prevalence of
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Sempre Health Raises $8M for Behavior-based Healthcare Pricing Platform
Sempre Health, a San Francisco, CA-based solution for behavior-based healthcare pricing, today announced it has raised $8M in Series A funding led by Rethink Impact with participation from Social Capital and others. The company plans to use the funding to further build out Sempre’s two-sided network of payers and pharma manufacturers. Unlike traditional coupons and vouchers, Sempre works with multiple healthcare stakeholders to dynamically adjust a patient's co-payment based on individual
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Allscripts Taps MedAware to Eliminate Prescription-based Medication Errors
MedAware has been selected by Allscripts patient safety and save lives. This is significant as new interoperability challenges arise created by an all-digital healthcare system. In the US alone, 1.5 million prescription errors per year result in injury or death. Nearly every organization has an EHR and physicians are being bombarded by huge stores of patient data. Allscripts has selected MedAware as its partner to put this data to work – to achieve meaningful interoperability and improve care
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Hackensack Invests in Home Care Robot, Pillo Through $25M Innovation Fund
Hackensack Meridian Health, today announced it has invested in Pillo, an AI-powered home care robot companion that empowers patients to better manage their health at home, connecting them to caregivers and family members. The investment marks the first product funded through Hackensack Meridian Health’s $25 million innovation program to support the improvement of health care delivery. The health network’s novel incubator has vetted many products and strategies to streamline care delivery, reduce
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How the Internet of Things is Revolutionizing Medical Adherence
Every day, doctors and medical researchers are challenged to find new, improved drugs and courses of treatment for chronic disease. But, what if the answer to improving health outcomes for many patients was simpler than developing new drugs? What if it was as simple as ensuring more patients stick to their treatment regimens?Medical non-adherence is a massive challenge all over the world. According to the World Health Organization, half of patients in long-term treatment for chronic illnesses
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Catalia Health Raises $4M to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Robot to Increase Medication Adherence
Catalia Health, a San Francisco, CA-based patient care management company that provides an effective, scalable, AI-powered patient engagement platform has announced a $4M lagniappe funding round (French Cajun for "a little something extra") led by Ion Pacific to power the rollout of Mabu, the cute, AI-enabled personal healthcare robots to patients. The funding builds on the company’s $2.5M seed extension raised earlier this year and a $1.25M seed round led by Khosla Ventures. The startup plans
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Medisafe Unveils “Safety Net” Feature for Additional Safeguard for Medication Adherence
Non-adherence varies from medication to medication and, until now, non-adherence and potentially fatal drug-to-drug and drug-to-lifestyle interactions were nearly impossible to prevent. Today, Medisafe, a medication adherence platform, has announced a feature that tracks individual usage patterns to help predict and plan for medication non-adherence pitfalls before they happen.Medisafe’s new feature, Safety Net, powered by IoT technology company Neura, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to
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Medisafe Launches Free Med Adherence Grader Tool for Pharma Products
Medisafe, a Boston, MA-based medication adherence platform has announced the launch of Adherence Grader, a free data insights tool for the healthcare community interested in tracking medication adherence.Now available at AdherenceGrader.com, the tool gives pharmaceutical brands, researchers, caregivers, journalists and other interested parties across the healthcare continuum instant access to how well Medisafe users adhere to alternative medication regimens on a relative basis.Adherence Grader
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United Healthcare, DrFirst Launch App to Tackle Med Adherence with Drug-Price Transparency
The high cost of prescription drugs is one of the top causes of patient medication non-adherence, resulting in avoidable emergency department and hospital admissions, as well as longer term poor patient outcomes. With the transition to value-based care finally becoming a reality, this challenge must be addressed — and quickly — by leading healthcare organizations. To address this critical issue, UnitedHealthcare and DrFirst has announced the launch of PreCheck MyScript, a new app that delivers
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