{"id":7935,"date":"2017-08-23T08:55:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7935"},"modified":"2017-08-23T08:55:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:55:39","slug":"smart-pill-bottles-arent-enough-to-help-the-medicine-go-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7935","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Smart&#8217; Pill Bottles Aren&#8217;t Enough To Help The Medicine Go Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lauren Silverman for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>What if I told you there was a way to use technology to save an estimated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3934668\/\">$100 billion to $300 billion dollars<\/a>\u00a0a year in health care spending in the U.S.? That&#8217;s the estimated cost incurred because people don&#8217;t take the medications they&#8217;re prescribed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/08\/22\/538153337\/smart-pill-bottles-arent-enough-to-help-the-medicine-go-down?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=55559892&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--_K_Ft8B9SidrC7D5DlA_LwPPddsiFrIIjXK8FFiDI0O9lvyNhv1OjA7NiscS2grTRWVYYfNJsXh8ROkt37iw8pobRuw&amp;_hsmi=55559892\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 20px; outline: 0px; border: 1px solid #eaeaea; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.4; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; overflow: auto; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\"><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lauren Silverman for NPR) What if I told you there was a way to use technology to save an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-technology","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7936,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935\/revisions\/7936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}