Our adherence packaging can play a significant role in helping patients better adhere to their medication routines.

Improved patient adherence can result in cost savings across the entire healthcare industry, while also creating efficiencies for doctors and pharmacists, and providing tangible health benefits to patients.

Adherence is increasingly being recognized as a key to improved health outcomes and health care cost savings.

An April, 2010 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine states that, “We’ve known for some time that improved adherence can lead to improvements in health outcomes and reductions in health care spending. What we haven’t known is where to start.”

 

Our adherence packaging can serve as a simple and scalable way to help improve health outcomes.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that only half the U.S. population takes their medications as prescribed by their physicians. And half of all patients with chronic diseases stop refilling prescriptions by one year*. As we know, patients who do not follow their medication regimens cost the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $290 billion a year, or 13 percent of total healthcare expenditures.**

Our packaging ensures product integrity and incorporates anti-counterfeiting technology to address issues that are estimated by the World Health Organization to cost $35-$44 billion in damages to the global pharmaceutical trade. We do extensive consumer research to assure design and improved safety and medication delivery over basic vials.

*Healthcare Quarterly, 8(1) 2005:65-70

**according to the New England Healthcare Institute

 

Related links

The Importance of Medication Adherence
Center for Health Transformation: healthtransformation.net
This white paper discusses the problem of patient non-compliance with medication, and best practices and solutions.
Read the white paper.