Only Smarter Prescribing Can Solve Medication Adherence

December 29, 2014 | Bob Kocher and Brad Stulberg argue that increasingly complex drug regimens are running into a fundamental limit of the human mind, and that prescribing fewer drugs is the only way to ensure patients take their most important medications properly. They propose a number of systematic, technology-enabled solutions, such as forcing doctors to manually override EHR warnings if they want to prescribe more than five total drugs to one patient, and giving pharmacists new consultation powers in designing an overall medication plan. Forbes