Patient Engagement April 19, 2018
mHealth patient engagement apps can boost medication adherence, but more needs to be done to turn patient behavior changes into clinical outcome improvements.
Healthcare professionals and mHealth app designers must identify ways to make medication adherence apps produce improvements in wellness measures, indicates a new studypublished in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Currently, patient engagement with mHealth tools are not improving clinical outcomes for hypertensive patients.
Medication non-adherence is a patient engagement issue that seriously hinders chronic disease management, said the research team.
“While many factors contribute to poorly controlled hypertension, nonadherence is thought to account for nearly half of all such cases,” the team noted. “In fact, among patients classified as having ‘medication-resistant’ hypertension, more than 50...
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