European Network to Advance Best Practices and Technology on Medication Adherence: Mission Statement

Job Fm van Boven; Ioanna Tsiligianni; Ines Potočnjak; Jovan Mihajlović; Alexandra L Dima; Urska Nabergoj Makovec; Tamás Ágh; Prezmyslaw Kardas; Cristina Mihaela Ghiciuc; Guenka Petrova; Noemi Bitterman; Fatjona Kamberi; Josip Culig; Björn Wettermark

doi:10.3389/fphar.2021.748702

European Network to Advance Best Practices and Technology on Medication Adherence: Mission Statement

Front Pharmacol. 2021 Oct 11:12:748702. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.748702. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Job Fm van Boven¹, Ioanna Tsiligianni², Ines Potočnjak³, Jovan Mihajlović^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Medication Adherence Expertise Center of the Northern Netherlands (MAECON), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
² Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece.
³ Institute for Clinical Medical Research and Education, University Hospital Centre Sisters of Charity, Zagreb, Croatia.
⁴ Mihajlović Health Analytics, (MiHA), Novi Sad, Serbia.
⁵ University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
⁶ Medical Faculty, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
⁷ Research on Healthcare Performance (RESHAPE), INSERM U1290, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France.
⁸ Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁹ Syreon Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary.
¹⁰ Medication Adherence Research Centre, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
¹¹ Department of Morphofunctional Sciences II-Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Algesiology, School of Medicine, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania.
¹² Department of Social Pharmacy and Pharmacoeconomics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
¹³ Industrial Design, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
¹⁴ Faculty of Health, Research Center of Public Health, University of Vlore "Ismail Qemali", Vlore, Albania.
¹⁵ Pharmacoepidemiology Department, Andrija Stampar Teaching Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia.
¹⁶ Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
¹⁷ Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Abstract

Medication non-adherence is associated with almost 200,000 deaths annually and €80-125 billion in the European Union. Novel technological advances (smart pill bottles, digital inhalers and spacers, electronic pill blisters, e-injection pens, e-Health applications, big data) could help managing non-adherence. Healthcare professionals seem however inadequately informed about non-adherence, availability of technological solutions in daily practice is limited, and collaborative efforts to push forward their implementation are scarce. The European Network to Advance Best practices and technoLogy on medication adherencE (ENABLE, COST Action 19132) aims to 1) raise awareness of adherence enhancing solutions, 2) foster knowledge on medication adherence, 3) accelerate clinical application of novel technologies and 4) work collaboratively towards economically viable policy, and implementation of adherence enhancing technology across healthcare systems.

Keywords: COST Action 19132; drug therapy; eHealth; medical technologies; medication adherence; medication management; persistence.

Copyright © 2021 van Boven, Tsiligianni, Potočnjak, Mihajlović, Dima, Nabergoj Makovec, Ágh, Kardas, Ghiciuc, Petrova, Bitterman, Kamberi, Culig, Wettermark and European Network to Advance Best Practices and Technology on Medication AdherencE (ENABLE).