Monday 02 November

adhereTx Helps Patients & Doctors Manage Chronic Conditions

Service Snapshot

What is It? adhereTx is a software system that allows user to track how they are dealing with a chronic medical condition to help them and their doctor see what their behavior patterns are in regard to medication or other issues that make a difference in how they manage their illness.
Who is It Good For? adhereTx can help anyone with hypertension, diabetes or cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions that require monitoring.
How Can I Get It? adhereTx projects that by May 2009 their service should be commercially available. In the meantime, you can contact adhereTx regarding being a part of a smaller-scale test group.

Our editor's grandmother use to set her alarm to get her medications taken at the exact time she was supposed to. Military training can do that to a person. But not everyone is so obedient to doctor's orders. Some people will take their medication "about the same time" and still others might miss a dose on occasion. These lapses can often mean physicians need to re-define what is important to a patient and then tailor things so that it works for them. When dealing with chronic health issues, understanding how a patient is taking their meds, whether it is on time or with just "one little glass of wine" or how medicines might be interacting could potentially change a physician's advice to a person. And because of this variation adhereTx was born.

In the video above watch as Jill sits down with Anne Marie Biernacki, CTO and co-founder of adhereTx at the Health 2.0 Conference held in San Francisco. Biernacki explains how tracking a real person's habits and behaviors around what their medication or other aspects of their health regime translates into doctors getting real information about their patients' habits, and can help reduce acute episodes for people with chronic conditions. This technology is really interesting when you consider the situations faced by the elderly or their caregivers. Chronic health issues in the elderly that require adhering to a medication or behavioral regime can create a whole host of problems. Although monitoring is needed, it is often not done in a way that works perfectly with how human beings operate and what's needed to keep symptoms, such as pain, under control. adhereTx can help seniors and their doctors stay on top of conditions such as hypertension, diabetes or cardiovascular disease so that changes to the behavior, environment or medication can occur with less guess-work and more hard evidence. adhereTx is not commercially available just yet, but they project that by May 2009 it should be. In the meantime, you can contact adhereTx regarding being a part of a smaller-scale test group.