Medical Assistant Compliance
Based on multiple research studies on medical assistant jobs, up to 90% of all patients make unintentional errors in taking their medication, resulting in annual hospitalization costs of $47.4 billion, according to the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The National Pharmaceutical Council says that the failure to properly take prescription drugs results in $100 billion a year in unnecessary medical expenses and medical assistant jobs productivity in the U.S. alone, and another $50 billion per year in lost pharmaceutical sales.
InforMedix, based in Rockville, Md., links patients and health care providers through interactive communications technologies. Bruce Kehr, MD, chairman and president of InforMedix, is a practicing physician and the principal inventor of the company's technologies.
Medi-Monitor serves as the patient's PMA by alerting them to take their prescriptions, and features an interactive graphic screen which provides them with detailed information about their medications and health. It then asks patients to enter information in response to a series of questions about their medications, side effects, drug interactions, quality of life, and general health. The collected data can then be automatically uploaded by a built-in modem to the InforMedix communications center for analysis. Reports are then sent to the patient's physicians, pharmacists, or other healthcare professionals, and can include early warning signals if a patient's condition is worsening. The patented devices were invented by Bruce Kehr, MD, a national authority on medication compliance technology. InforMedix commissioned Logix, an award-winning product development and manufacturing company, to produce the Medi-Monitor. Logix has developed hand-held electronic products for Sharp Electronics, Hewlett-Packard, and other Fortune 500 companies. Smart Design, which has developed products for Johnson & Johnson, Timex, Cuisinart, and Oxo International, was responsible for the ergonomics of the Medi-Monitor.
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