Archive for the ‘Adherence’ Category

Each life-impacting disease today has its set of highly engaged e-patients or “optimized me’s” (as  Christine Kraft calls them). These patients do everything that is possible and imaginable to improve the quality and access to health care for the patient communities they serve.

They are of essential importance in influencing other patients’ behaviors and attitudes. [...]

Patients go online to find out whether it is worth it to adhere to their treatment. This presents a complete mind-shift in pharma’s thinking about adherence - especially in light of social media.
Patients’ decisions are going to be driven by a mix of hard facts and emotions. The article “Patient adherence-it’s all in what you [...]

Adherence is a behavior that is driven by a positive frame of mind. It is the decision to take your medicine as your doctor told to, because you believe it will improve your health. It is also an act that implies that you care about your health and well being.
I believe that participation in social [...]


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The Internet holds the power to profoundly change the way healthcare is delivered. Millions of patients, caregivers and physicians turn to the Internet every day to look up the latest information on important health topics and find support from like-minded people.

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