How Data Informs Patient-Centered Medication Adherence Work
Patient Engagement October 30, 2023
Data is just a tool to help providers deliver humanized, patient-centered medication adherence guidance.
For Armando Hinojosa, MD, the data used to flag medication adherence isn’t the end-all, be-all.
Indeed, medication trackers are important tools for making sure his patients at the Laredo, Texas-based SeniorMed get the treatments they need, but at the end of the day, they’re just that: tools.
What has really moved the needle on medication adherence at his 2,000-patient practice, which serves mostly low-income, Hispanic-American seniors, are the people and the processes that get to a patient-centered result.
“Everybody thinks that data is going to solve the world’s problems. It’s not going to, but it can leverage what other people do,” Hinojosa, also a board member...