The SmartMEDinfo website educates employees on the fundamentals of being informed consumers before they consent to accept any given prescription, medical test or procedure. This is called Informed Consent.
Q: What if your employees were informed of the known possible side effects of every prescription they were given?
A: They would recognize drug side effects when they occur, and avoid the snowball of getting prescribed more drugs to treat these effects.
Q: What if patients knew how well a drug really worked, or not?
A: Many would decide against taking an optional prescription altogether.
Employees are educated on how to find out the risks of medication including what is known and not known about the safety of a drug. SmartMEDinfo.com educates employees so that they can sort out what is advertising from what is actually proven about how well a drug works.
SmartMEDinfo website gives them the Low Down™ on various medical topics and the full FactFile™ on specific drugs. SmartMEDinfo communicates clearly, making complex medical topics understandable to everyone. Patients get essential information that can be immediately used to make informed decisions about prescription drugs, medical tests and procedures.
[View sample videos and articles, and drug Fact Files.]
Informed employees
save you money
Reduces drug costs.
Corrects misconceptions about drugs.
Avoids unnecessary drug side effects.
Reduces overall health care costs.
Helps employees stay healthy.
Raises the responsibility level of employees.
Reduces absenteeism.
Improves the work environment.
Employees get smart with SmartMEDinfo.com
Medical News: Get a concise summary and interpretation of the latest-breaking medical news and announcements, free of the usual bias.
Smart Medicine Basics: Watch the introductory video and see the series of brief articles for an orientation to the rights and responsibilities of Informed Consent.
Fact Files™: Look up individual fact sheets on common prescription drugs, and find out what the drug does, what is known and not known about its safety, and how well it actually works (or not).
The LowDown™: Find out information that your doctor may not be telling you or may not know. Explore the expanding library of videos and articles on various medical conditions so that you can make smart decisions.
The doctors and pharmacists at SmartMEDinfo communicate clearly so that the reader is truly informed.
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Over 95% of web-based medical information sites are directly sponsored or indirectly monetarily influenced by drug makers or medical device manufacturers. Those sites actually encourage prescription drug consumption. [Read more]
The SmartMEDinfo website is free of any conflicts of interest. The physicians and pharmacists who compose the content have no medical product to sell, we are not in the pay of any product manufacturer and hold no stocks or interests in any pharmaceutical company. We don’t hide unfavorable information about drugs and medical procedures. [See About Us]
Meet the founder of SmartMEDinfo.com™
Moira Dolan, MD is a Board Certified Internal Medicinephysician and Executive Director of theMedical Accountability Network. Dr. Dolaneducates widely on Informed Consent togroups including employees, emergency responsepersonnel, school boards, elected officials, public health boards, physicians, public defenders, community groups, fraud examiners and University seminars. Dr. Dolan periodically testifies to legislative bodies as well as at FDA advisory committee hearings. Dr. Dolan serves as a consultant to private industry, government agencies, advocacy groups and the legal profession. Dr.Dolan is author of the forthcoming book, Smart Medicine©, which defines a new role for patients in health care decisions.
Did you know:
Total U.S. prescription drug expenditures are projected to hit over $497.5 billion by 2016. This is compared to $200.7 billion spent on U.S. prescriptions in 2005—a 148% increase.
$200.7 billion was spent on prescription drugs in the U.S. in 2005, up from the $179.2 billion spent just two years before.
Prescription drug expenses in the U.S. account for approximately 20% of total health expenses
Employee healthcare is soaring faster than any other business cost, and prescription drug costs increase faster than any other health care expense.
The majority of the top 25 grossing prescriptions are not lifesaving, and many of them were not even in existence a decade ago.
80.8% of the cost of employee healthcare was paid for out-of-pocket or by private insurance.
Adverse drug effects (death or debility) have more than doubled in the last decade, as have FDA recalls of previously approved drugs.
Adverse drug events injure an estimated 1.5 million people each year, at a cost of approximately $3.5 billion. These numbers do not factor in lost wages, productivity, or additional healthcare costs incurred as a result of these injuries.
Adverse drug reactions are known to be responsible for between 3 percent and 12 percent of hospital admissions, and fatal drug reactions account for about 5 percent of deaths of those patients in hospitals in the United States. Adverse Drug Reactions are estimated to account for the seventh most common cause of death.
Drugs are routinely prescribed for conditions for which the drug was not FDA approved, called “off label” prescribing.
Three of the top five drugs prescribed to dependent children were optional with no clear medical indication, and amounted to $1.3 billion in costs.
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