Heck Of A Guy

Three recent posts at AlignMap, the blog and web site where I write about patient adherence to treatment,¹ may prove interesting to the intellectually curious general reader.²

Compliance Program Combines Healthy and Wealthy, But Is It Wise?

The Medication Blister Pack Lottery Ticket

The slogan for the Illinois lottery was once You can’t win if you don’t play; the parallel slogan for the lottery referenced in this post would be You can’t win if you don’t adhere to your prescribed coumadin regimen.

The Aetna Foundation has funded a clinical trial to determine if chances to win a daily low-stakes lottery encourages adherence among patients taking coumadin. This has created controversy about the practical and ethical aspects of offering cash incentives for medication compliance.(It has also inspired my own contribution to pharmaceutical packaging, the Medication Blister Pack Lottery Ticket, pictured above.) You can read about it at

Calvin and Hobbes, Sidewalks, Advice, and Patient Compliance

It turns out to be only a short step from Calvin philosophizing about life as a sidewalk to the effectiveness of healthcare professionals recommending patients do what they already know they should do - quit smoking, follow a diet, etc.

And, as a bonus, check out Calvin on motivation.

The Calvin and Hobbes contribution to patient compliance can be found at

The Seedy SEEDIE Site

I recommend this post for two reasons:

1. I am a rabid fan of satiric spoof web sites.
2. SEEDIE is the “Society for Exorbitantly Expensive and Difficult to Implement Electronic Health Records.”

Irresistible, right?

Well, in any case, you can read about it at SEEDIE and Patient Compliance


Footnotes

1. ”Adherence to treatment,” “patient compliance,” “concordance,” and the various combination and permutations of these terms are, on this context, synonyms.↩
2. Viewers are also welcome to peruse other posts, but my hunch is that the appeal of pieces such as Treatment Nonadherence Among Individuals With Schizophrenia: Risk Factors and Strategies for Improvement and Negative Effect Of Depression On Adherence To HIV Treatment Dissipates With SSRIs may be limited to a much smaller, more specialized audience.↩

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