PatchRx

🏥 Medication adherence is a universal problem. So, the technology designed to solve it must be universally available for every patient, regardless of zip code or socioeconomic status. Andrew Aertker explains how PatchRx designed the current product to ensure every patient who wants and needs the service can use it. And how using SORACOM has been a powerful catalyst for ensuring secure and reliable remote care to the thousands of patients PatchRx supports daily. Check it out below :)

In the latest "What to Expect When You're Connecting", our host Ryan Carlson speaks with Andrew Aertker of PatchRx about an innovative solution for improving medication adherence. Get more of the insights they've gained while bringing this life-saving tech to market like: 🔹 Addressing the major issue of medication non-adherence through the use of technology 🔹 The journey of designing smart cap tech for pill bottles 🔹 The key takeaways concerning connectivity for remote healthcare solutions 🎧 https://bit.ly/3TdANDQ #podcast #smarthealthcare #healthcare #iot

💡 Pfizer is embracing #digitalhealth to streamline access to care. We’re encouraged to see legacy organizations move toward a more holistic model of healthcare technology that puts patients at the center. Check out the full analysis via Delilah Alvarado at Industry Dive: https://lnkd.in/gBedmmWe

💡 Epic Systems recently announced a new feature that will make it easier for patients to share their medical record data with health and wellness apps. The move, made possible by a new set of federal government standards outlined by the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), is an encouraging step toward a more interconnected, patient-centric healthcare data-sharing model. Check out the full analysis via FierceHealthcare - https://lnkd.in/eN7vaU9p

Great preventative healthcare doesn't end when a patient leaves the doctor’s office. Our new partnership with ChartSpan Medical Technologies – the largest full-service Chronic Care Management (CCM) organization in the U.S. – brings PatchRx’s clinically backed medication adherence monitoring platform to thousands of new patients across the country. We’re thrilled to team up with ChartSpan to empower healthcare providers with the technology they need to deliver the highest quality of care. More about the partnership here: https://lnkd.in/g6SXK4dx (edited) 

🗒 TLDR: we're big supporters of the new APCM structure from the '25 Physician Fee Schedule draft, here's our take on it. 👉 A few weeks ago, the CY 2025 PFS draft was released with some relatively notable changes in our virtual care and remote care markets. Lotta folks have hit the big themes already, but we’re extremely bullish on the new addition of Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM). At a macro level, our current initiatives at PatchRx are designed to: 1) increase efficiency in clinical work by integrating more and getting rid of so many disjointed point solutions and 2) push to develop workflows (and incentives) that assist patients not based on the time clinicians allocate but by the quality of care or the quality of data used to evaluate patients. If you’re constantly trying to meet time-based requirements, it doesn’t necessarily always serve the patient. Aside from the reimbursement for these codes, which I believe seriously underestimates the resources required to adopt many elements of the service, frankly, we see APCM as the best-designed care management model to date. Here’s what we like: ⭐ APCM maintains the effective components of CCM, like the centralized digital care plan, which dramatically improves data capture and quality for patients. ⭐ It moves away from time-based coding, which is massive – empowering care teams to build better workflows, draw insights, and recommend data-backed interventions with actual efficiency. ⭐ It centralizes an element of care management that’s been long underutilized in traditional FFS programs: population health and risk stratification, generally. Too often, great healthcare payment mechanisms like APCM are rendered untenable because advocates can’t supply a robust, data-driven justification for reimbursement during the comment period. We expect/hope that to be different here. 📣 If you are contemplating APCM and want to make the case to CMS in this comment period, we’d love to partner with you on the best way to do that. All credit here in this evaluation to our clinical strategy expert, Trajan McClintock. #CMS #healthcareinnovation

📣 Today, we’re excited to announce a new partnership with MD Revolution that brings PatchRx’s clinically backed medication adherence technology to thousands of healthcare providers across the U.S. This integration will unlock crucial insight into patients’ medication-taking behaviors, empowering care teams with the data they need to make more informed treatment decisions. Read more below: https://lnkd.in/gh6YFTpU

Calling everyone to help change pain in America! Today is the DAY to take action on the “advancing research for chronic pain act”: https://lnkd.in/ewDGrENv Follow the link and please repost! It only takes seconds (or 1-2 minutes for a personalized note) to message your senator on this important bill that will allow for better data on the burden of chronic pain and research and treatment access for all. And even if it seems like messages couldn’t change congress’s actions, they do! The last time I messaged my state representative on insurance coverage of essential anesthesia services, I received a very personalized reply back. And our outreach worked! I happened to meet with her a few weeks later to discuss a different bill on overdose prevention centers in my state, she recalled my prior outreach, and we had an amazing conversation with her staff in support of OPCs. Your outreach can make change happen. #WhyPainCounts #chronicpain #painadvocacy American Academy of Pain Medicine, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, American Society of Anesthesiologists®, Shravani Durbhakula, MD, MPH, MBA, Salman Hirani, MD, Trent Emerick, MD, MBA , Sudheer Potru, DO, FASA, FASAM, Lynn Kohan , Sayed Wahezi, Bryan Marascalchi , Amitabh Gulati, David Copenhaver, Theresa Mallick-Searle, Jeremy A. Adler, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA, Kayode Williams, Steven Stanos, DO , Ajay D. Wasan, Nathaniel Schuster, Beth Darnall, PhD, Sean Mackey, David M. Dickerson, Zachary McCormick, MD, Argoff Charles, Sharon Kneebone, IOM, FASAE, CAE

Blue Shield of California is rolling out a unified health record for its patients, bringing together lab results, immunizations, diagnoses, and historical health data to create a more holistic view of one’s health. Great to see the healthcare industry continue to embrace a #unifiedcareplatform model, empowering both clinicians and patients with the data needed to make effective care decisions. Check out the full details via Paige Minemyer for FierceHealthcare: https://lnkd.in/gr5QX38r

Today via FierceHealthcare: PatchRx CEO + co-founder, Andrew Aertker sat down with Emma Beavins to discuss PatchRx Connect, the shift toward a unified platform model, and the need for legacy players to collaborate for better patient care. Check out the full piece: https://lnkd.in/giGfUHRN