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Adherence Predictive Models Win Teradata Epic
"On the Edge" Award
Our patent-pending therapy adherence predictive models earned an important award in the data analytics and business intelligence world. The proprietary predictive models behind the ESI Adherence IndexSM identify patients likely to become nonadherent up to 12 months in advance, enabling plan sponsors to prevent wasteful healthcare spending caused by poor adherence.
Express Scripts was awarded the Teradata EPIC Award in the "On the Edge" category for solutions that "solve a problem that before seemed impossible." Reliably predicting adherence problems certainly seemed impossible for many years. As recently as March 2010, an editorial in the respected journal Medical Care* decried a decade of failed attempts by researchers to find actionable methods of predicting adherence. The EPIC Award recognizes that Express Scripts has cracked the code on adherence.
Express Scripts estimates that the nation wastes $308 billion annually as a result of patients who do not take medications as prescribed, resulting in poor health outcomes and unnecessary hospital admissions, avoidable emergency room visits, additional physician visits, extra laboratory tests, additional medication therapy and other healthcare costs.
"Published research has shown savings between $1,500 and $9,000 a year per patient, depending on the age group and the type of condition," says Sharon Frazee, Vice President of Research. "For instance, a heart failure patient will have higher savings than a patient with hypertension. That's because the immediate implications of not taking hypertension medication will likely be less apparent. However, nonadherence to hypertension medication can lead to long-term microvascular system damage, which eventually will catch up with patients. By contrast, if a patient has congestive heart failure disease that has progressed, they are already very sick, so not taking prescribed medications has more immediate implications."
Increasing medication adherence in key disease states is critical to improving member health and reducing financial waste. Express Scripts advanced adherence solutions leverage our award-winning predictive models to do just that.
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*Steiner JF, "Can we Identify Clinical Predictors of Medication Adherence… and Should We?" Medical Care, 2010;48:193-195
