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Improving Medication Adherence with a Cell Phone

By Kathryn Brown | Thursday, October 30th, 2008

“Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them.” This quote, by the former Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, M.D, appeared in a New England Journal of Medicine article on drug therapy and adherence.

There are many reasons (cost, inconvenience, forgetfulness, unpleasant side effects) why patients don’t take their medicine. Medication adherence has become an issue of great concern within the health community, especially as we get older as a nation. So in this spirit, Verizon recently launched what it refers to as the Pill Phone — a new technology that allows people to make sure they keep to their medication regimens and help family members keep to theirs.

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