Mobile Patient Medication Adherence is Aim of Cleveland Startup

MedCity News
March 8, 2011

Technology alone can’t solve the problem of patient adherence to medication instructions, but it’s a fairly safe bet that it can help.

A 2009 report from NEHI, formerly the New England Healthcare Institute, found that patients failing to take medications as prescribed leads to poorer health, more frequent hospitalization, a higher risk of death and as much as $290 billion annually in increased medical costs.

With such a huge dollar figure hanging out there, it’s no wonder that a number of technology companies are developing software aimed at helping mobile-phone using patients better follow their physicians’ instructions. One such company is Cleveland’s Access Mobility, which has developed a mobile patient adherence system it calls CellepathicRx.

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