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	<title>AmeliaTek Medication Compliance</title>
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	<description>"Medication compliance - Pill Reminders"</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>10 Ways to Remember to Take Your Meds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Torrico</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Tips &amp; Tricks</category>

		<category>Medications</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another way to &#8220;keep it routine&#8221; so it&#8217;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 very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Older is Getting More Expensive for America</title>
		<link>http://www.ameliatek.com/32/getting-old.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Torrico</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Independent Living</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The State of Aging and Health in America 2007
A report out of the Centers for Disease Control &#8220;The State of Aging and Health in America 2007&#8221; says that the aging of America is getting more expensive for America.
The cost of caring for aging Americans will add 25 percent to the nation’s health care bill by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My favorite non-compliant patient story</title>
		<link>http://www.ameliatek.com/11/healthy-win.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Torrico</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Medications</category>

		<category>Patient Adherence</category>

		<category>patient compliance</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors Paid More if they Talk to their Patients</title>
		<link>http://www.ameliatek.com/31/physician-reimbursement.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.ameliatek.com/31/physician-reimbursement.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Medications</category>

		<category>Patient Adherence</category>

		<category>patient compliance</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Effective January 1, 2007, the Centers for Medicare &#038; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medication Mistakes Common and Costly for Older Adults</title>
		<link>http://www.ameliatek.com/30/medication-errors.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.ameliatek.com/30/medication-errors.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Torrico</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Medications</category>

		<category>Patient Adherence</category>

		<category>Patient nonadherence</category>

		<category>patient compliance</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Windows VISTA: for &#8220;Mature Audiences&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ameliatek.com/29/windows-vista-seniors.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.ameliatek.com/29/windows-vista-seniors.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Torrico</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Healthcare Tools</category>

		<category>Independent Living</category>

		<category>patient compliance</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the launch of Windows Vista in Las Vegas last month, Microsoft has begun a series of focus groups in preparation for the launch of a selection of Seniors PC Offerings in the near future.
AmeliaPlex, Incorporated is pleased to announce that OnTimeRxR for Windows has been selected by Microsoft to be included in their latest Generation-Specific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the Compliance Tools?</title>
		<link>http://www.ameliatek.com/28/health-tools.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.ameliatek.com/28/health-tools.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Torrico</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Healthcare Tools</category>

		<category>patient compliance</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every major health related website talks about Compliance, because compliance it is a well-documented waster of healthcare dollars. In my opinion, those sites could and should be doing so much more. 
None of the major disease-specific sites I checked offer effective or useful compliance tools. - other than the usual list of some general ways to remember to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dropping Statins shown to Raise Heart Attack Risk</title>
		<link>http://www.ameliatek.com/27/statins-compliance.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.ameliatek.com/27/statins-compliance.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Torrico</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Medications</category>

		<category>patient compliance</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAME Compliance Study: Federal study of Adherence to Medications in the Elderly</title>
		<link>http://www.ameliatek.com/26/fame-compliance-study.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.ameliatek.com/26/fame-compliance-study.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Torrico</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Healthcare Tools</category>

		<category>Patient Adherence</category>

		<category>patient compliance</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Rick Lange, Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical Center presents a podcast(mp3) which mentions the blister pack compliance study I covered here on December 9th. In that podcast, Dr. Lange calls it the FAME Study, for &#8220;Federal study of Adherence to Medications in the Elderly&#8221;. Like I did here, Dr. Lange noted the high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Blister Packs Solve the Medication Compliance Problem?</title>
		<link>http://www.ameliatek.com/25/blister-packs.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.ameliatek.com/25/blister-packs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Torrico</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Medications</category>

		<category>patient compliance</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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