{"id":635,"date":"2022-03-29T07:36:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2022-03-29T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:00:50","slug":"mind-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"Mind The Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-636 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mind-The-Gap-image-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mind The Gap logo from London Tubes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mind-The-Gap-image-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mind-The-Gap-image-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mind-The-Gap-image-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mind-The-Gap-image.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>From @Forbes, coming out of the pandemic a whopping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brettwhysel\/2018\/06\/27\/3-vicious%20cycles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">56% of Americans with chronic disease\u00a0<\/a>have missed medication.\u00a0People aren&#8217;t taking their meds, and aren&#8217;t tending their conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Think of how huge this risk is to our employees &#8230;\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>56%<\/strong><\/span> are not taking their meds!<\/p>\n<p>These people have conditions that are ripening like bad fruit about to fall. And when it hits it&#8217;s going to be ugly. A fully mature form of diabetes or heart disease has astronomical personal and financial costs.<\/p>\n<p>@BenefitsPro points out that it&#8217;s financial worry that contributes to almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2020\/11\/17\/covid-19-related-financial-stress-is-hurting-employee-health-and-well-being\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one in four Americans<\/a> avoiding medical treatment.<\/p>\n<h3>So Mind The Gap!<\/h3>\n<p>From a risk management point of view, this is practically the definition of &#8220;low hanging fruit&#8221;. These gaps in care are the easiest to see, and honestly the most straightforward to remedy. Do you have a system to reach this population? Are you able to find the gaps and press the snooze button on the ticking time bombs happening in over half your chronic disease conditions?<\/p>\n<p>The gap may seem small right now, but the chasm it opens up can swallow your most valuable people, not to mention your budget.<\/p>\n<p>#MindTheGap<\/p>\n<p>#MadeByMedwell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaps in care are not hard to identify, straightforward to address, and yet over half of the population with chronic diseases are not taking their meds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chronic-disease","category-financial-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mind-The-Gap-image.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kBci-af","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}