Beyond synchronization into true adherence:
Statistically proven, the MedHere Today™system gives pharmacists all tools necessary to create a true MTM based adherence program.
MedHere Today™Studies have shown:
• 30% increase in generic utilization for enrolled patients
•$1.87 increased average margin per prescription for enrolled patients
•Increase in prescription volume by an average of 29 prescriptions/patient/year
Non Adherence Is Costing Your Pharmacy and Puts Your Patients At Risk
With “medication adherence” being talked about everywhere among health care professionals, it’s on everyone’s radar.
Medication adherence has been a continuing problem for as long as anyone can remember. More recently, though, with the rising costs of health care the impact of non-adherence has risen to crisis level in the national health care system. More and more people are looking for ways to address the problem.
But you feel the effect much closer to home. As more of your patients take fewer doses and wait longer between refills… your patients are increasingly at risk...and you are losing a big chunk of business.
Since medication non-adherence is now costing everyone, (Bruce Roberts former Executive VP of the NCPA said “adherence is a $290 billion problem") several approaches to the adherence problem were bound to emerge. Thousands of independent pharmacy owners like you are waking up to the fact that somewhere between 20% to 35% of their sales and profits are being lost because of missed refills due to poor adherence. What’s worse, these losses aren’t from competition or external forces. You’re losing business from your own patients!
What To Do?
The most simplistic approach is just to “synchronize” the patient’s prescriptions. Synchronization means having all of a patient's prescriptions ready on the same day. This is accomplished by "short filling" prescriptions to have the tablet count run out on the same day. This is certainly more convenient for some patients, and to some extent, the pharmacy.
Prescription synchronization is a positive step forward. It demonstrates that pharmacists are addressing the important issue of medication adherence.
If Only “Sync” Was The Answer
But it’s not. The “convenience” of getting all the medications at one time solves only one of the eleven factors causing non-adherence, and it’s not the major cause.
For the patient, the problem goes deeper than simply getting prescriptions all at once. Just because the patient walks out of the pharmacy with all their prescriptions is no guarantee that the patient will take the medications as directed, finish the doses, or even remain on a maintenance medication. Research has shown this.
According to studies by Pfizer, NIH, and numerous others, a shocking 29% of patients will not finish their doses, and 22% won’t take them at all. Cost, confusion, doubting the efficacy of the medications, poor prescriber communication, and other human factors make up the biggest barriers to adherence.
“Simply a better way to practice pharmacy”
There is a system that addresses all of the causes of patient non-adherence. It is MedHere Today™. It works; and there are years of hard data to prove it.
- Studies have shown a 35.6% increase in the number of prescriptions filled for patients enrolled in MedHere Today™
- MedHere Today™ addresses all causes of non-adherence through improving availability, lowering costs, and maintaining communication with patients and providers.
- Studies have shown that adherence increased from 78% to 92% for patients enrolled in MedHere Today™
- MedHere Today™ patients can see lower out of pocket expenses & higher rates of adherence at the same time
MedHere Today™ began with a working title of “Mind Your Medicine” in 2006. Two pharmacist-owners of an independent pharmacy in rural Missouri noticed that by making prescriptions more available and working more closely with their patients in regard to their medications (in classic MTM practice) that their patients were becoming more adherent and some reporting better outcomes.
In the intervening years, their approach to medication non-adherence has caught the attention of industry leaders from major pharmaceutical manufacturers to wholesalers, pharmacy organizations and many independents.
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After continual refinement and systematizing the processes and procedures, MedHere Today™ has arrived as clearly the most effective method of addressing medication non-adherence in the United States.
“Simply a better way to practice pharmacy” describes the MedHere Today™ medication adherence system. The MedHere Today™ system will teach you step-by-step how to implement the most comprehensive adherence program in existence today. We will show you how to add significant prescription volume, improve pharmacy operations and work flow, all while making a big difference in your patients’ lives.