The information about medication non-compliance is interesting.
Non compliance doesn't appear to be related to cost (similar rate in England with low cost or free prescriptions and US with expensive prescriptions), or severity of illness (main reason for failure of transplanted organs is non-compliance with med regimen), etc etc.
About half the English medication budget (£4.5 bn of £9 bn) is wasted because people do not take their medications properly.
There's possibly big money if you can work out a way to get people to take their meds correctly. Drug companies want this; health providers want this.
Is there any data on why people don't take their meds? Do they just forget to take a pill every day, or is it willful noncompliance due either to fear/misinformation or adverse effects? And is the problem typically that the drugs don't work if not taken every day (i.e. missing a day compromises treatment fully) or do the noncompliant tend to just stop taking them outright?
Non compliance doesn't appear to be related to cost (similar rate in England with low cost or free prescriptions and US with expensive prescriptions), or severity of illness (main reason for failure of transplanted organs is non-compliance with med regimen), etc etc.
About half the English medication budget (£4.5 bn of £9 bn) is wasted because people do not take their medications properly.
There's possibly big money if you can work out a way to get people to take their meds correctly. Drug companies want this; health providers want this.