AmeliaTek Medication Compliance

A few days ago I posted about how Doctors are to be paid extra for taking time to talk with their patients, and I suggested that Big Pharma would be wise to help bring independent living technologies like OnCellRx.com to their customers, so patients would be better able to actually benefit from the expensive medications they are buying. At a mere $0.50 per day (or less!) a service like OnCellRx seems like an excellent value-add for an expensive life-saving pill.

Now we see a report with hard data supporting my suggestion:

LONDON (Reuters) – Worldwide thousands of people taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are suffering unnecessary heart attacks because they are not complying with the recommended treatment, Dutch researchers said on Thursday. The researchers estimate up to 9,000 European and 7,000 American statin users have heart attacks that are avoidable.

According to the research:

“Getting users to stay on statins and to use them persistently saves lives, and doctors must get over to patients the message that complying with treatment is essential,” Dr Fernie Penning-van Beest, of the PHARMO Institute in Utrecht, said in a statement

In the study, half of the 60,000 statin medication patients stopped taking their medications during the two year test period. They weren’t supposed to; they failed to remember or skipped or for some reason didn’t follow the medication schedule. And the patients who fully complied with the prescriptions, taking the drugs at the proper times routinely? A 30 percent reduction in hospital admissions for heart attacks compared to that non-compliant group. A separate study had already estimated that every year up to 400 statin medication patients in the Netherlands suffered avoidable heart attacks.

So people are buying expensive medications that help prevent heart attacks, but for some reason a large number of them are failing to take their drugs properly, and suffering avoidable heart attacks. We know why. They need to be reminded. We want to remind them. We want to bring them OncellRx.

But we need help from pharmaceutical companies, doctors, pharmacists, family members, and everyone else who can see the benefits and help get OnCellRx.com working for the patients who need it. Is that you?