Poor compliance to medication treatments is a large and growing problem. Noncompliance to medication is often referred to as “a dirty little secret in healthcare.” According to Harvard Medical School, about 50% of people don’t take their medications for chronic disorders as ordered by doctors. Reasons vary - but the economic costs are significant. US studies have shown that 30%-40% of hospital admissions, 23% of nursing home admissions and approximately 125,000 deaths per year are attributed to medication non-compliance. COPD patients, collectively, represent a group with poor compliance behavior. The estimated lost pharmacy revenue for this group is estimated at $4.3 billion per year. Or, for the home healthcare provider, the average COPD patient at 50% compliance translates to about $70/month in lost pharmacy revenue.   The medSage Therapy Management Device™ The medSage Therapy Management Device is designed to be easy to install and easy for the patient to understand. In fact, if a patient is compliant, they will not even know it is there! Here’s how it works. The Therapy Management Device: Works with any compressor nebulizer with a simple power cord attachment. Connects to a standard phone line / jack (like an answering machine). Reminds the patient to take medications (respiratory and other) using patent-pending Smart Reminders™. Tracks nebulizer therapies - quantity, time and duration - with a patent-pending sensing mechanism. Uploads compliance data to a central server via a toll-free number. Receives treatment plan and revisions to the plan automatically from the medSage server.   How the Therapy Management Device helps your business: 1. The medSage Therapy Management Device automates the medication refill process, thereby reducing the cost of managing your patient refills while ensuring regulatory compliance. 2. The medSage Therapy Management Device, using its Patent Pending Smart Reminders™, will increase your pharmacy revenue by providing a cost effective and patient friendly tool that increases patient compliance to their physician prescription. 3. The medSage Therapy Management Device, by providing hourly interaction to and from your patients, will allow you to provide a superior level of service. medSage Technology's flexible product design and business model allows you to brand the product to your corporate identity, thus providing a powerful marketing and sales tool.   How the Therapy Management Device helps your patients: The medSage Therapy Management Device is designed specifically for use by COPD patients. Requiring almost no set-up, the device interacts with the provider’s online medication management system automatically and ties up the line for less than 1 minute in the early morning hours 2-3 times a week. The only interaction that the patient need have with the device is to take her albuterol treatment when reminded. 1. Increased compliance has been shown to improve quality of care, increase quality of life and reduce hospital admissions. 2. By providing daily monitoring, the patient may feel comfortable that their treatment is being monitored.   THE MEDSAGE THERAPY MANAGEMENT DEVICE IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT AND, AS SUCH, NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.