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Sep 13, 2013: According to Jim O’Donnell, pharmacist and chief pharmacy executive at Community Health Network in Indianapolis, Ind., “Medication access and adherence are huge but mostly unknown national concerns. When 40% or more of patients with a chronic disease fail to take their medications as prescribed, the consequences are staggering. A reduction in the patient’s quality of life, unnecessary emergency room visits, and hospitalizations add more on to our national healthcare costs. We must figure out a way to improve.”
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The $290 billion problem of medication adherence is one of the top challenges to pharmacy practice.