Healthcare Reform Sets Stage for Better Medication Adherence

Medscape Today
April 8, 2010

The nation's new healthcare reform law, along with the ongoing federal push for electronic health records (EHRs), can help mitigate the costly and dangerous problem of patients not sticking to their medication regimens, according to an article published online April 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine...

In all the talk about death panels and socialized medicine during the recent healthcare reform debate, Americans did not hear much about the often-overlooked issue of Mr. Jones skipping his daily antihypertensive medicine, or Mrs. Smith never filling her prescription for cholesterol-lowering pills. However, the authors of the article — David Cutler, PhD, from Harvard University, and Wendy Everett, ScD, from the New England Healthcare Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts — underscore the enormous clinical and economic fallout from medication nonadherence.

Link to Full Article: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/719953