Patient Medical Compliance

Medical Compliance refers to the following of advice from your doctors and nurses.

Failure to be compliant is a major cause of hospital readmission and decreases the quality of care you receive while increasing costs.

Areas of Compliance Include:

• Medications - taking your medicines as prescribed
• Laboratory - getting lab tests done as ordered
• Appointments - with doctors, nurses and other medical stakeholders, being present and on time
• Nutrition - following dietary advice and restrictions
• Exercise - following suggestions

Compliance can be increased by monitoring with feedback as needed.

WiFi and Cloud Computing have totally changed the game when it comes to monitoring: www.bluelibris.com

Monitoring can be applied to results such as:

• Pulse rate
• Blood Pressure
• Respiratory Rate
• Oxygen Saturation
• Daily Weight
• Glucose levels
• Potassium Levels

Monitoring can be applied to medication compliance, laboratory compliance, imaging (radiology) compliance, appointment compliance, dietary and exercise compliance.

New pharmacy dispensing devices for the home are available.

The Philips e-pill reminds you of your medication times, monitors your taking your medications and sends reports to the cloud where lack of compliance can be detected and sent to your nurse practitioner, doctor or pharmacist.
www.epill.com/philipsmd.html

Lab orders can be stored in the Cloud and reminders about time, place and diet can be sent as text messages or voice mails or email.

Failure to appear at the lab can be noted and a follow up call from the medical office or the laboratory can be made.

Imaging orders can be stored in the Cloud and reminders about time, place and diet can be sent as text messages or voice mails or email.

Failure to appear at the Imaging office can be noted and a follow up call from the medical office or the Imaging office can be made.

Professional appointments can be stored in the Cloud and reminders can be sent as text messages, voice mail or email.

Failure to appear at the medical office can be noted and a follow up call form the medical office can be made

Daily weights can be recorded with a WiFi scale and sent to the Cloud:
www.withings.com

The Cloud can be monitored and weight loss or gain can be followed up by the nutritional or medical office.

Time, duration and intensity of exercise can be monitored with various heart monitors.

Results can be uploaded to the Cloud for analysis by the medical or physical therapy office.