Digital Health Interventions by Clinical Pharmacists to Improve Medication Adherence: A Contemporary Review

ABSTRACT Clinical Pharmacists (CPs) are progressively adopting to digital health technologies, which alter their telehealth roles in addressing the universal issue of medication non-adherence. This review combines all the existing evidence and summarize the central role of pharmacists in medication management by using digital health tools such as mobile apps, web platforms and remote monitoring. This interventions of pharmacists successfully enhance adherence to medication, deliver personalized education to patients and lead to healthier outcome by uplifting the standard of care, cost effectiveness and also reduces expensive hospital visits in some cases by preventing further complications. The contemporary review of this article describes various digital health interventions their measurable benefits and challenges. To enable more prognostic and prophylactic care, following developments are looking at combining pharmacists’ knowledge with artificial intelligence. To conclude, the digital health is essentially transforming the pharmacy practice into a more proactive, and data driven practice. Through the effective utilization of the telehealth technologies, clinical pharmacists can bypass the traditional impediments to medication adherence and achieve in reality better health, better quality measures and less expensive to patients. The Field should overcome obstacles such as unequal technological access and build sustainable reimbursement systems of virtual pharmacy services in order to achieve long-term success. Keywords: Clinical pharmacists, Digital health interventions, Telehealth, Remote patient monitoring, medication adherence, Cost-effectiveness.