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About Vitality
Vitality addresses the billion-dollar compliance problem for pharmaceutical brands, retail pharmacies, and healthcare providers with a simple device — an Internet-connected pill cap. Vitality’s GlowCaps illuminate, play a melody, and even ring a home phone so patients don't forget. They can send weekly emails to remote caregivers, create accountability with doctors through a compliance report, and automatically refill prescriptions. Vitality improves medication adherence, health, and peace of mind.
Vitality is currently working with researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Center for Connected Health on a study to measure the impact of the GlowCaps CONNECT system.
VITALITY, Inc.
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Cambridge, MA 02142
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Learn more about the non-compliance problem and Vitality's unique approach
• According to the World Health Organization, "failure to take prescribed medicine for chronic diseases is a massive, worldwide problem. Adherence among patients suffering from chronic diseases averages only 50%."
• For diabetes patients, every additional dollar spent on medication saved $7 in medical costs. The medical cost savings were $5.10 for each additional dollar spent on medications for high cholesterol, and $3.98 for every dollar spent on prescription drugs for patients with high blood pressure. Study by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
- • "Each year, millions of patients in the United States fail to comply with their physician's prescried drug regiments, jeopardizing their health in the process. Contrary to believes widely held throughout the health care industry, however, the primary reason why people fail to take their medicine is not memory loss." The Hidden Epidemic by Boston Consulting Group
- • "Given the many factors contributing to poor adherence to medication, a multifactorial approach is required, since a single approach will not be effective for all patients." Study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
Vitality is the only company with a product designed to tackle the combination of factors that cause patient non-adherence. Leveraging deep expertise in customer research, wireless consumer electronics, web services, and behavioral psychology, Vitality's patent pending solutions offer each patient the optimal mix of intervention, feedback, reminders, accountability, education, and incentives to improve their ongoing medication compliance.