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Non-Adherence Shown to Significantly Impact Patient Health and Financial

Performance of Pharmaceutical Companies

NEW YORK and LONDON, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Costing the global pharmaceutical industry an estimated $30 billion per year and causing an estimated 125,000 deaths per year in the United States, patient non-adherence is a looming issue in the healthcare industry. Eularis has responded to this problem with a new report, available today, titled, "Ensuring Profitable Patient Adherence Programs." This report analyzes the underlying barriers to patient compliance and studies how pharmaceutical companies can implement successful adherence programs that will improve patient care while also increasing profitability.

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Written for CEOs, marketing executives and sales executives, this report uncovers that while adherence programs are designed to target the obvious reasons for non-compliance, including lack of insurance coverage, poor doctor-patient communication, preference for alternative therapies or simply forgetting, they are often ineffective. The report suggests that this is because there are barriers in the pharmaceutical companies themselves that may be hindering compliance program success. These barriers include such things as siloed organizational structures, privacy issues, short lifecycle of brand managers and difficulty of measuring return on investment.

"Pharmaceutical companies need to reconsider their approach to solving the patient adherence problem and stop viewing non-compliance as 'the patient's problem,'" commented Dr. Andree K. Bates, author of the report and president of Eularis. "In order to implement successful adherence programs that will improve patient care and increase profitability, companies should take an analytical approach that examines all non-compliance data relating to each brand, including how that brand is manage
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