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NEW ADHERENCE TECHNOLOGY BRINGS SOCIAL NETWORKING TO HEALTHCARE
iReminder Creates a Compliance Safety Net
WESTFIELD, NJ --(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 21, 2007 – Taking a page from the social networking playbook, iReminder, LLC (www.iReminder.com) has developed Compliance for Life™, a medication reminder system that enables patients to build a personal healthcare network of family members, caregivers and case managers who support their compliance efforts. Despite numerous industry and governmental programs to improve adherence and persistence, the percentage of people with a chronic illness who comply with their medication regimen typically ranges from 20% to 50%, and non-compliance costs the U.S. $300 billion a year. Compliance for Life was developed to connect patients with those who can most help them adhere to their treatment regimen.
“Just as social networks have changed the way people communicate and interact, personal healthcare networks will transform the way patients and their families deal with non-compliance,” said Amy J. Yoffie, CEO of iReminder. “Compliance for Life isa personal healthcare network that creates a therapeutic partnership among patients, family members, case managers, and medical providers. The patient’s personal network improves compliance by monitoring adherence and intervening when necessary.”
Compliance for Life offers reminders personalized in the voice of the person who sets them up so, for example, if a son creates reminders for his mother, she will hear his voice delivering them. The system lets recipients choose multiple delivery options – phone, email, and/or text message. Its customizable distribution system “finds” patients, even when their schedules vary, by routing reminders through a series of attempts until a
successful contact is made. Members invited to be part of a patient’s healthcare network can set up medication and other medical-related reminders – doctors’ appointments, medical tests, refills, etc. – as long as they obtain permission from the patient in advance. Users of Compliance for Life create reminders online or by phone.
When licensed to disease management firms, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and managed care organizations, Compliance for Life frees care managers from routine, repetitive adherence calls, giving them more time to focus on urgent cases. The system can be integrated into their existing programs or offered as a stand-alone service. Compliance for Life also is licensed to pharmacies, associations, and non-profits, which, in turn, offer it as a direct-to-consumer program.
Licensees can include a brief series of questions to determine whether the patient needs to be seen or wants a medical provider who is a member of their network to call them. Compliance for Life plans to offer modules that let patients review regimen instructions, hear reasons for staying on medication, improve symptom awareness, and obtain self-management strategies.
iReminder offers an application service provider (ASP) model so that customers can use Compliance for Life’s patent-pending technology without burdening their IT department.
Alternatively, licensees can install the Compliance for Life technology on their own premises. Both models allow licensees to private label the system.
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iReminder, LLC
iReminder, LLC is a healthcare technology company focused on increasing medication adherence. The company’s flagship product, Compliance for Life™, is an automated medication reminder system with unique personalization features for message, mode and timing of delivery. It offers tools that let patients build a healthcare network of family members, caregivers and case managers who support their compliance efforts. For more information, visit www.iReminder.com or call 877-326-3293.
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iReminder Announces New Weapon to Increase Medication Compliance
Targets Growing Cost of Non-Compliance
WESTFIELD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 14, 2006-- The healthcare industry has a new, cost-effective weapon in the fight to increase medication compliance. Compliance for Life a web- and phone-based medication reminder system, has been launched by iReminder, LLC (www.iReminder.com), a healthcare technology company based in Westfield, NJ. With 50% of chronic disease patients failing to comply with their treatment regimens and non-compliance estimated to cost $300 billion a year, Compliance for Life offers an innovative framework for medication adherence and persistence.
Compliance for Life is licensed to disease management firms, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and managed care organizations to integrate into their existing offerings, or as a stand-alone compliance program. It extends the reach of case managers by freeing them from routine, repetitive calls, giving them more time to focus on difficult compliance cases. Compliance for Life also is licensed to pharmacies, associations, and non-profits which, in turn, offer it as a direct-to-consumer service.
Compliance for Life reminders can be set either by phone (with speech recognition software), or on the Internet and delivered in multiple ways: by phone, email and text message. A customizable delivery sequence enables reminders to “find” patients, even when their schedules vary because the system routes reminders through a series of delivery attempts (e.g., call home twice, cell phone three times, and then send an email), until a successful contact is made.
With strong>Compliance for Life, case managers, caregivers and family members can set up medication reminders for patients, as long as they obtain permission from the patients in advance. Those who set up reminders can request notification of whether or not the reminder was received by the patient, so that they can follow up as needed.
"We developed Compliance for Life to address the most common reasons for non-compliance: people forget, get busy, don’t want to disrupt their routines, or are away from home,” said Amy J. Yoffie, CEO of iReminder. “People also stop taking their medications when they feel better. Reminders that can be set up once and delivered regularly are particularly effective for people who suffer from asymptomatic illnesses, chronic diseases and complex medication regimens, helping them to maintain consistent levels of medication in their bodies.”
Licensees can elect to include modules that let their customers review regimen instructions, hear reasons for staying on medication, improve symptom awareness, and obtain self-management strategies. Since users decide when they want to listen to this information, these educational programs have greater impact than web-based seminars, healthcare sites, and other methods of getting someone’s attention.
iReminder offers an application service provider (ASP) model so that customers can use Compliance for Life's patent-pending technology without burdening their IT department. Alternatively, licensees can install the Compliance for Life technology on their own IT platform. Both models allow licensees to private label the system.
About iReminder, LLC
iReminder, LLC is a healthcare technology company focused on increasing medication compliance. The company’s flagship product is Compliance for Life, a web- and telephone-based automated notification system that reminds people to take their medication. For more information, visit www.iReminder.com or call 877-326-3293.
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