Events and Barriers are opportunities to address potential failure points with targeted Therapy Support for patients and clinicians.


KEY EVENTS

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Diagnosis
  • Patient presents with unaccounted symptoms after misdiagnosis
  • Recommendation of treatment
Treatment Initiation
  • Patient decision to move forward
  • Reimbursement
  • Initial use/administration
Ongoing Treatment
  • Onset of side effects (possible)
  • Onset of efficacy (possible)
  • Returning for treatment/ monitoring visits
  • Ongoing data/evidence collection for payers

FOCUS AREA

Autoimmune Disorders

 

Events and Barriers are opportunities to address potential failure points with targeted Therapy Support for patients and clinicians.


KEY EVENTS

Open All Events
Diagnosis
  • Patient presents with unaccounted symptoms after misdiagnosis
  • Recommendation of treatment
Treatment Initiation
  • Patient decision to move forward
  • Reimbursement
  • Initial use/administration
Ongoing Treatment
  • Onset of side effects (possible)
  • Onset of efficacy (possible)
  • Returning for treatment/ monitoring visits
  • Ongoing data/evidence collection for payers

BARRIER ANALYSIS

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PATIENT
BARRIERS
Understanding condition/treatment

    Difficulty understanding condition and treatment

    Doubts about accuracy of diagnosis and frustration with the medical system

    Uncertainty about course of the disease/reaction to treatment

Financial/cost issues

    Impact of disease and treatment on work

    Fear of long-term financial burden on family

Psychosocial/emotional issues

    Feeling anxious or depressed by diagnosis

    Fear of long-term treatment, side effects, and impact on quality of life

Clinician–patient relationship

    Lack of trust in clinician after possible earlier misdiagnoses

    Frustration with clinician for not recognizing condition earlier

Motivation/treatment fatigue

    Experiencing (disabling) symptoms and/or disease progression

    Variability of symptoms leading to low self-efficacy in ability to control the disease

    Losing trust in his/her own body

    Ongoing disease and treatment management

CLINICIAN
BARRIERS
Limited time/resources

    Preference for/more experience with other brands

    Hesitation to prescribe new forms of therapy, specifically when they would change treatment sequencing

    Limited time to follow developments in new therapy options, clinical trials, and relevant literature

Financial/cost issues

    Reimbursement

Patient communication/expectation setting

    Difficult conversations about diagnosis, condition, treatment options, goal of treatment, choice of therapy, etc

    Limited skills/resources to address psychosocial patient needs and set expectations for treatment

Ongoing disease and treatment monitoring

    Patient returning for follow-up visits

    Data/evidence collection (eg, quality of life, efficacy measures) at and between follow-up patient visits

HCS
SOLUTION

A comprehensive program that engages patients to understand their condition, set expectations, prepare and stay motivated for therapy, and overcome other barriers by working to:

  • Identify triggered touch points based on treatment feedback to prevent patients from discontinuing therapy
  • Instill confidence in patients’ ability to manage disease symptoms and treatment requirements
  • Connect patients with reimbursement services
  • Help caregivers support patients and take care of their own needs
  • Facilitate communication between patients and clinicians
  • Ensure patients attend scheduled visits
  • Support patients to manage side effects/other complexities of therapy
  • Use provider portal to update clinicians on individual patients between visits
Learn how Therapy Support can add value to your autoimmune disorder therapy