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May 30, 2024

Strong Patient Trust in Clinicians Should Be Protected From Being Damaged — Intentionally or Unintentionally

Multiple surveys provide converging evidence that patient trust in clinicians is as strong as ever. Protecting patient trust as new practices and technologies emerge in healthcare is essential. Direct-to-consumer models and customer relationship management (CRM) techniques can threaten trust.

May 3, 2024

Improving Telehealth Usage, Outcomes, and Value

I propose something I call “virtual second” as one option for to help improve the depth of telehealth interventions and credibility of outcomes, and to create solutions that will persuade both providers and patients to see telehealth as a key piece of health care delivery systems.

January 4, 2024

Pragmatic Innovation in Healthcare Could be a Winning Formula

Summary General Catalyst’s health assurance model pitches a bold vision but with a pragmatic approach to implementation, focused on seamless changes, attention to aligning stakeholder incentives, a reliance on collaborations within and across systems, and the willingness to adopt a “go slow to go fast” model toward long-term outcomes. The model will be challenging to implement but could see positive reactions from the clinician community, in comparison to disruption-driven models.

Our Adherence Monitoring Solutions for Dermatological Treatments

March 15, 2023

The Sensal Health Communications Team

Our Adherence Monitoring Solutions for Dermatological Treatments

Learn more about Sensal Health's medication monitoring solutions.

Orally Administered Medications for Dermatological Treatments

June 17, 2022

Steve Feldman M.D., Ph.D

Orally Administered Medications for Dermatological Treatments

It’s an exciting time in dermatology with new oral medications being developed for dermatological treatments. One might think of topical treatments as the best approach for most skin conditions, given that these highly effective treatments can be applied directly to inflammation sites. However, patients prefer oral treatments over topicals...

Closing the Care Loop for Type 2 Diabetes Patients

May 13, 2022

Joanna Billings, Pharm.D., Deepak Sirdeshmukh, Ph. D, M.S., B. Pharm

Closing the Care Loop for Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Medication therapy management (MTM) services (also called clinical pharmacy services) aim to reduce medication-related problems and their downstream outcomes.1 These services, primarily targeting high-risk, high-cost patients with chronic medical conditions3, are provided by pharmacists who are integrated into outpatient clinics, at community pharmacies, or through inpatient hospital services. The American Pharmacists Association defines MTM as a service or group of services that optimize therapeutic outcomes for individual patients. These services consist of 5 core elements.

Q&A: Monitoring and Treating Intractable Diabetes

April 20, 2022

Deepak Sirdeshmukh Ph.D., MS., B. Pharm, David Klein, M.D.

Q&A: Monitoring and Treating Intractable Diabetes

Sensal Health’s patented medication management solutions provide unmatched, comprehensive insight into patient adherence to prescription medications including oral dosage forms used to manage diabetes and other chronic diseases. Deepak Sirdeshmukh is Co-Founder and President of Sensal Health; Dr. David Klein is a Senior Medical Advisor to Sensal Health. The following is a lightly edited excerpt of their recent discussion about medication management for diabetes.

Let’s focus on patient compliance as the problem, not adherence

December 20, 2021

Deepak Sirdeshmukh

Let’s focus on patient compliance as the problem, not adherence

Over the last several years, “medication adherence” has largely replaced “medication compliance” as the phrase used by doctors and pharmacists to describe patient outcomes for taking medication as prescribed. In a recent column in MedCity News, Sensal Health President and CEO, Deepak Sirdeshmukh, argues that using the term “compliance” can essentially produce better patient outcomes based on research surrounding customer and patient trust.

How Technology Can Help Improve Adherence for Dermatological Conditions like Psoriasis

November 19, 2021

Deepak Sirdeshmukh, PhD., Joanna Billings, Pharm D.

How Technology Can Help Improve Adherence for Dermatological Conditions like Psoriasis

Most doctors and pharmacists are familiar with the struggle of getting patients to take their medication as prescribed. But many do not realize that topical medications, for skin conditions like psoriasis vulgaris, create more obstacles to adherence than oral medication, and patients have fewer tools available to overcome them. Sensal Health President and Co-Founder, Deepak Sirdeshmukh, and Research Associate, Joanna Billings, recently collaborated on an article in Pharmaceutical Executive Magazine online, explaining why adherence to topical medications is so difficult, and how monitoring the dosage of medical ointments and creams in greater detail can improve patient outcomes.

Challenges of Ensuring Patient Compliance

January 14, 2021

Ramesh Upadhyayula, RPh

Challenges of Ensuring Patient Compliance

Oral dosage medications for oncology are convenient and have cost advantages, but patient adherence can be a problem. In this video, Sensal Health's Senior Clinical Pharmacy Advisor, Ramesh Upadhyayula, discusses the challenges of ensuring patient compliance.‍

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