AmeliaTek Medication Compliance

Here is another way to “keep it routine” so it’s easier to remember to take your medications. If your prescription says: “Take 1 tablet at bedtime.” When do you take it? Just before you turn the light out? What if you change your bed time? What if you stay up very late one night? Is [...]

At one time I was working in a pharmacy in Gainesville, Florida, and have to mention one favorite experience I had with a patient who wanted his last antibiotic refilled. It had been filled 2 weeks prior, so it was a good bet that he had stopped it too soon. When I asked if he [...]

Effective January 1, 2007, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will increase the reimbursement paid to physicians for the time they spend talking with Medicare patients, evaluating their health, and advising them on preventative care measures. According to a recent statement from [...]

When the doctors followed Medicare patients for a year, they witnessed 129 adverse events caused by patient errors. In half of those cases, the patient error was made after a doctor had changed the medication schedule, medication, or dosage. Also, patients taking 4 or more drugs were twice as likely to make mistakes. Patients on [...]

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 [...]

USA Today recently reported on a study where medication blister packs were used to improve patient compliance. Blister packs are those cards of pills backed with foil that are used by many over the counter cold remedies. In this study the pharmacist tossed aside the normal pill bottles, and combined the patient’s daily medications into [...]

Pharmdgurl over at MySpace “lit up the room” with her real-world post about working in a busy pharmacy. It’s being circulated across the Internet and getting a lot of attention – which is good. It almost sounds like a storyboard for a TV sitcom pilot: Take a pill and chill! Unfortunately her cynical description of [...]

You need to take your meds, and each one of them comes with a set of requirements. But once you have more than a few medications, it can be pretty tough to stick to the proper medication schedule. Luckily here are a few relatively simple tips that have helped many patients handle complex medication schedules, [...]