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Technology presents the healthcare community with a golden opportunity to improve lives – but only if we embrace that potential. Success, according to the Innovative Health Initiative’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, depends on cross-sector collaboration. Across Europe, healthcare faces a multitude of challenges. The region is home to an aging population, living with a…

Clinical research can stand or fall on the adherence to trial medications – even the most efficacious interventions will fail if people do not take their medicines as prescribed. That’s why researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, Australia used AARDEX’s digital solutions to verify adherence to medication among…

For far too long, poor patient adherence has been the elephant in the room. The common, age-old problem has the potential to bring a clinical trial to its knees, and yet with no workable solution on the table, sponsors and CROs have been forced to ignore it. But that’s changing.                                Integrating advanced technologies, including smart packaging (smart…

According to the World Health Organization, up to half of the patients with chronic diseases fail to take their medications properly.1 Research shows many patients who are part of clinical trials do not maintain medication adherence either.2 Among many things, poor patient adherence is an ongoing threat to drug development. Typically, by month 12, 40% of participants have…

Poor patient adherence tends to be a matter of people not taking their medicine as prescribed, due to access barriers. So how can placing an additional burden on patients be the answer?  As an industry, we are more than aware of the scale and consequences of non-adherence to medication, both in routine care and clinical…