E-Health, Online Pharmacy and Connectivity: Steps Towards Improving Medication Compliance
Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the way your body uses fat. When you have diabetes, it develops resistance to insulin, causing high blood pressure. This requires a strict medication regime to be followed by long-term use of pharmacotherapy. Many patients are prescribed complicated diet routine, exercise, and medication that might even include several pills a day. Although these medications are effective in curing the disease, yet strict adherence to the treatment regimen is the key factor in treatment and its results. The efficacy of the drug can only act if it is properly taken by the patient, but unfortunately, that’s not the case!
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As per the International Diabetes Federation Atlas 2015, approximately 69.2 million Indians are diabetic. Among patients with chronic illness, approximately 50% do not take medicines as prescribed. (ref. 1) Even those who are willing to adhere, among them also Patients recall only about 50% of what is discussed during the medical examination. (ref. 2) This low adherence to medication results in increased