13% of Health Care Costs Due to Poor Adherence

At least according to a report from the New England Health Care Institute. They provide a very good review of the literature that makes the case that improving medication adherence may be the most valuable approach to improving patients' quality of life and lowering overall costs. I particularly like that they included more approaches than just lowering patient pay. Technology now allows us take action to help more patients at a much lower cost. For example, SilverLink combines decision support and communication systems while ValueOptions PharmaConnect identifies over 8,500 alert types and notifies the patient's trusted advisor (their own physician).