NACDS Urges "One Document Solution" to Provide Patients with Useful Medication Information

Healthcare Packaging
June 30, 2011

In response to the Obama Administration’s request for ideas to streamline federal regulations, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on improving patient medication information (PMI)...a 2009 report by the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) found that poor medication adherence cost roughly $290 billion a year in additional healthcare costs...“NACDS remains committed to working with the Food and Drug Administration to advance a ‘One-Document Solution,’ said NACDS President and CEO Steven C. Anderson, IOM, CAE. “The development and implementation of a ‘One-Document Solution’ is an important patient safety recommendation and should be a top priority.”

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