Sep 23, 2013: Although the program aims to make picking up prescriptions convenient for those patients, it also addresses one of the more enduring problems health care professionals confront. That would be patients who don't or can't pick up medical prescriptions after they're discharged from the hospital and don't follow the prescription regimen.

Outside link:
Between 50 and 70% of prescriptions that are written are actually taken to a pharmacy, while 48 to 60% are actually picked up.