Any health system trying to tackle population health management in any meaningful way has to grapple with the challenge of patients who don’t adhere to their care plans especially those who, for whatever reason, don’t take their medicines in the way they were prescribed.”Medication nonadherence is a massive public health problem,” said Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, executive director of the Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.”We estimate that almost $300 billion a year is spent in caring for health conditions that are attributable to nonadherence that amount of money could be saved if patients were fully adherent to their medications,” said Choudhry, who will keynote the second day of the HIMSS Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston on Oct. 24.

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