Medication Adherence: A Value Quadrant Opportunity? Part I

The Collaborative Forum
July 27, 2009

I had the privilege of attending an expert round table meeting in Boston yesterday sponsored by the New England Healthcare Institute focusing on the healthcare waste associated with medication non-adherence.  The conference, entitled appropriately: “Thinking Outside the Pillbox – A System-wide Approach to Improving Patient Medication Adherence for Chronic Disease”, was a deep and thoughtful discussion led by Cliff Goodman.  The blue ribbon panel included the likes of Troy Brennan, MD, Chief Medical Officer of CVS Caremark, John Fallon, MD, Chief Physician Executive of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and John Halamka, MD, Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, to name just a few.

The frame-up of the “problem” for discussion was a 2007 report by NEHI updating the cost estimates of poor medication adherence...

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