Disruptive Women in Health Care

This month, Disruptive Women welcomes Patrick F. Terry, a self-proclaimed “JAD” (Just A Dad), as our Man of the Month. Q: So, where should we start? Y...

My initial enthusiasm for blogging on the subject of adherence policy “carrots and sticks” faded the more I contemplated the disputes that would arise by suggesting “sticks,” so mostly I’ll – pardon the pun – “stick” to “carrots.” In recent weeks these blog pages have been filled with ways to s...

For those of you who are visiting our blog for the first time, you will notice several blog posts on the topic of drug adherence. From time to time Disrutpive Women tackles a particularly vexing issue and runs a series of posts that we then compile into an e-book...

I’ve always been someone who (pretty much) does what I’m told. When my parents or a doctor told me “Take your medicine”, I complied. Howeve...

For many years I was a caregiver and advocate for my family and friends. I discovered that taking their medications correctly was one of the main problems...

The following post – part of Disruptive Women’s Drug Adherence Series – is by Stacey Irving of McKesson Patient Relationship Solutions. Poor medication adherence affects all of us in healthcare — it’s a problem that our entire industry is trying to tackle. By many ...

The following guest post comes to Disruptive Women from Lois Privor-Dumm, IMBA, Director, Alliances and Information for the PneumoADIP, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She heads up several vaccine projects related to advocacy and communications as well as access and implementation...

As our population ages the importance of one’s ability to remain independent as long as possible will become even more important than it is today. One of the leading causes for the placement of a frail adult in a nursing home is due to non-adherence to medication regimes. ...

Halloween. What an annoying time of year. There are the innocent children dressed by their overzealous parents in costumes ranging from silly to sexy, harassing me for candy and invading my personal home space...

If medication adherence is a problem for adults, consider how difficult it is for young people with chronic medical conditions. Alternate flavorings, formulations, and suspensions can help the medicine go down in children. But what is the solution when taste is not the problem...

If only it were an urban legend that senior citizens in the United States were cutting their physician-prescribed pills in half or ignoring their medications altogether in order to have enough money for food and utilities, but one doesn’t need academic studies to know that this kind of e...

I was stunned to learn that New York City’s Bellevue Hospital was closing its birth center, leaving low income women in the city with no access to a birth center that accepts Medicaid. Why are childbirthing centers in this country struggling to survive when they ought to be spreading? ...

The following guest post — part of our Drug Adherence series — is by Elizabeth Sozanski, who is currently Senior Director, Global Brand Strategy, and is the former Adherence Leader for AstraZeneca. I...