Janet Wright, FACC, was recently asked to be a guest blogger on the Disruptive Women in Health Care blog for an ongoing series on medication adherence (soon to be an e-book!). She writes,

Over decades of practice in cardiology, I had a first-hand view of the challenges patients face in adherence – an inability to afford the prescription to an incomplete understanding of a med’s value or benefit to overestimating the risk to unclear directions or complex instructions on how and when to take the drugs. ... Successful medication adherence is not a failure on the part of the patient to take their medication, but rather a failure on the part of the health system – including patients, their providers, the reimbursement structure, the insurance companies, etc. – to make it easy and worthwhile for the patient to take his or her medicines. 

She concludes:

Successful patient medication adherence is not just about the patient taking his or her medication – it’s about the health system working together to allow the conditions to exist to enable the patient to take his or her medication.

Check out her full post on the Disruptive Women blog and leave your thoughts on Rx adherence below. 

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