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		<title>The Post Is Not Brought To You By Pfizer &#8211; It Just Seems That Way</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/11/24/the-post-is-not-brought-to-you-by-pfizer-it-just-seems-that-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gosh, this is difficult.  Well, I may as well just come out with it &#8211; at the risk of appearing to be a shill for Pfizer, I must admit that the points made by European brand manager, Chris Venn, at eyeforpharma’s recent Patient Compliance Europe 2008 conference, as reported in Patient compliance programs: Learnings from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yep, The AlignMap In The Slate Article Is This AlignMap</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2008/03/25/yep-the-alignmap-in-the-slate-article-is-this-alignmap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<title>Nonadherence To Posting Schedule</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2007/12/14/nonadherence-to-posting-schedule/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2007/12/14/nonadherence-to-posting-schedule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My delay in publishing posts to this blog is, in fact, fairly representative of most episodes of patient noncompliance in that I am uncertain how or why it happened, despite an intense effort to make that determination. The degree of nonadherence is certainly significant, yet I have found myself repeatedly rationalizing that &#8220;one more day&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Pushing Healthcare Alignment, Too</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2007/11/18/microsoft-pushing-healthcare-alignment-too/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2007/11/18/microsoft-pushing-healthcare-alignment-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<title>Patient Segmentation  By Medication Compliance Attitudes</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2007/02/25/patient-segmentation-by-medication-compliance-attitudes/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2007/02/25/patient-segmentation-by-medication-compliance-attitudes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<title>Miracle On 34th Street &#8212; The Patient Compliance Version</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2006/12/21/miracle-on-34th-street-the-patient-compliance-version/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2006/12/21/miracle-on-34th-street-the-patient-compliance-version/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<title>Adherence Improvement Battle Has Many Fronts</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2006/11/09/adherence-improvement-battle-fought-on-many-fronts/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2006/11/09/adherence-improvement-battle-fought-on-many-fronts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improving Medication Adherence: Challenges for Physicians, Payers, and Policy Makers By Patrick J. O’Connor Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1802-1804. In his thought-provoking editorial, Dr. O&#8217;Connor succinctly summarizes the problems of noncompliance: Medication nonadherence is very expensive, sometimes lethal, and depressingly common The Challenges Of Adherence Improvement The majority of the paper consists of eight challenges: CHALLENGE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aligning The Interests Of Uninsured Patients And The Hospitals That Care For Them</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2006/10/27/aligning-the-interests-of-uninsured-patients-and-the-hospitals-that-care-for-them/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2006/10/27/aligning-the-interests-of-uninsured-patients-and-the-hospitals-that-care-for-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hospitals Try Free Basic Care for Uninsured By Erik Eckholm. New York Times. October 25, 2006]]></description>
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		<title>Motivational Interviewing</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2006/08/23/motivational-interviewing/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2006/08/23/motivational-interviewing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using Motivational Interviewing to Promote Patient Behavior Change and Enhance Health by Belinda Borrelli, PhD, MA. Medscape. Release Date: July 28, 2006.]]></description>
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		<title>Treatment-Adherent Refusal Of Prescribed Medications</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2006/07/24/how-to-correctly-not-take-medications-as-prescribed/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2006/07/24/how-to-correctly-not-take-medications-as-prescribed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How To (Correctly) Not Take Medications As Prescribed How To (Correctly) Not Take Medications As Prescribed was originally posted on Heck Of A Guy, my other, … uh, less businesslike blog, where I usually deal with weighty matters such as The How-To Of Ketchup Decantation, Dishwasher Salmon , or If Mom Were Muslim. I mention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiatus</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2006/06/09/hiatus/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2006/06/09/hiatus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on a one week break. Posts will resume 19 June 2006]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Payment Cap Proves Disincentive To Compliance</title>
		<link>http://alignmap.com/2006/06/02/healthcare-payment-cap-proves-disincentive-to-compliance/</link>
		<comments>http://alignmap.com/2006/06/02/healthcare-payment-cap-proves-disincentive-to-compliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allan Showalter, MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news story, Study: Drug Caps Mean Sicker Patients, No Savings, summarizes research at Kaiser Permanente published in the New England Journal of Medicine which reviewed 200,000 patients who had Medicare+Choice coverage (now called Medicare Advantage) in 2003. One-fifth of the patients had unlimited drug coverage; the rest had a $1,000 annual drug benefits cap. [...]]]></description>
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