mHealth- Advances, Knowledge and Patient Engagement

the problem

Patients don’t take their medications as prescribed for a variety of reasons: the pills are too expensive, they have unwanted side-effects, they forget due to advanced age or other factors, or they’re just not sure about the instructions.  While ideally, patients who are confused or experiencing side-effects would discuss the matter with their provider, that doesn’t always happen.  It’s a gap in care that holistic, patient-centered accountable care is trying to bridge, and mHealth is increasingly becoming an easy way to do