Tech Vital to Medication Adherence

E-Health Europe
January 4, 2010

Information technology has a vital role to lay in cutting medication-related errors and improving medication adherence among older people, suggests a recent report.

The report says that of the 3 billion medication prescriptions issued each year in the US, 12% are never picked up by the patient and 40% are not taken correctly....

Published by the US Centre for Technology and Aging in Oakland, California, the report says "widespread use" of technology aimed at older people has the potential to save thousands of lives and billions of dollars....The New England Healthcare Institute has meanwhile estimated that $290 billion in healthcare costs could be avoided if medication adherence were improved...

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