
People like you and me are the inspiration of every single product we design, develop and manufacture. In fact, one in every two people walking around you is the driving force behind our products. We say this because we know 50% of people with chronic long-term illnesses like Diabetes, Asthma and Cardiovascular diseases do not take their medication as required.*
Why? Because they are not just patients, they are busy individual human beings - like you and me. They need an extra helping hand to empower them and help them to remember their medication. Sometimes they are overwhelmed by the treatment regime, forget or neglect the instructions.
The compliance devices from Medicom take the human prespectives into account and produce at least three winners this way - empowered patients, physicians with better treated patients and for pharmaceutical manufacturers - improved results from their drugs.
References
* WHO. (2003), “Adherence to Long –Term Therapies, Evidence for Action”
* Urquhart J; DeKlerke; Contending Paradigms for the Interpretation of Data on Patient Compliance with Therapeutic Drug Regimens. Stat. Med 1998:17:251 -267