Ep. 407: Creating A Healing Community
Guest: Lynda Brown-Ganzert, CEO of Curatio
The numbers are staggering.
“Studies consistently show that 20 percent to 30 percent of prescriptions are never filled, and approximately 50 percent of medications are not taken as prescribed,” according to a review in Annals of Internal Medicine. “It’s called nonadherence and it is 100 percent preventable by the people who it afflicts.”
Estimates on non-adherence account for approximately 125,000 deaths and at least 10 percent of hospitalizations, costing the American health care system between $100 and $289 billion a year. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop put it bluntly: “Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them.”
Enter Lynda Brown-Ganzert the Founder and CEO of Curatio, an online platform that not only helps patients keep the prescriptions schedules they are given, it also provides them with access to a myriad of resources and networks that support subscribers in more than 104 countries and in 15 different languages.
Stuart McNish invited Lynda Brown-Ganzert to join him for a Conversation That Matters about an online platform that reaches out to people who may feel isolated by bringing them together.
