Over the last 80 years, the disease burden imposed on Western nations has shifted from acute life-threatening illnesses to chronic degenerative disorders. Today, the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. are chronic diseases such as hypertension, high cholesterol, asthma, and diabetes. The effects of chronic diseases often accumulate slowly over decades.

    Consequently, the burden of routine care has migrated from the doctor to the patient through the disarmingly simple necessity of having to take a pill--often daily--over months, years, or decades.

    The symptoms of chronic diseases may be entirely silent, as with high cholesterol; or only episodically apparent, as with asthma and diabetes. Painful or life-threatening complications may still lie in wait decades away. Treatment occurs in the outpatient arena, typically at home. While the doctor still establishes the diagnosis and initiates treatment, the patient has become responsible for the daily delivery of care. Adheris was founded to address the problems associated with this fundamental shift in health care treatment.

Patients
    First and foremost, the patient benefits from a better quality of life.  Adherence improves therapeutic outcomes, allowing the patient to experience the intended effects of a prescribed medication.

Businesses
    Improved health status leads to a more productive lifestyle, and businesses benefit from healthy employees. Improved adherence can reduce the number of

• Hospital admissions
• Emergency room visits
• Sick days, which cost industries billions of dollars annually

Everyone
    We all benefit if we can reduce the overall costs to the U.S. health care system linked to prescription non-adherence.