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The healthcare costs of 20 percent of Americans have soared to $900 billion a year.
Empowering you to self-manage your health more effectively & cost efficiently.
REMEDY™ is a 'patient-centric' healthcare management solution that gives people the power to self-manage their illness or that of their family members outside of a medical facility, be it at home, work, school or wherever they may be with interactive 24/7 monitoring within their circle-of-care. It allows data inputting and results tracking through the convenience of a cellphone, PC, laptop or PDA. Manual administration is reduced with automated data management, alerts, reminders and notifications sent and retrieved 24/7 from patient results. REMEDY™ is personalized to the needs of individual users. An online forum and Q & A for users is provided to allow them to discuss what others are doing to cope with the same condition as their own and to get real-time information on their condition from healthcare professionals.
REMEDY™'s goal is to enhance individual health promotion, wellness and disease self-management programs to better protect and enhance your health, preserve your independence, prevent or delay illness, injury and premature demise.
How does it work?
REMEDY™ takes a prescribed medical program as established by healthcare professionals and enables it for digital online self-management. For example an 'Asthma Action Plan' is incorporated into the software that is personalized to your condition. The technical simplicity afforded by the Internet provides individuals with more focused and relevant information for better self-management. Data entered from any device such as a cellphone, laptop or PC is seamlessly transmitted to all those you have included in your circle-of-care for interactive monitoring.
Research shows that through close monitoring, people with diabetes can maintain their eyesight and increase their longevity by approximately five years.
Manage who has Access to Your Circle-of-Care
You now have complete control as to who may view and be part of your healthcare provider contacts - Re: your 'circle-of-care'. You can add or remove persons to be part of your information access in your circle-of-care as you deem necessary.
In a review of more than 20 studies, concluded that self-management education reduced hospitalizations, emergency department visits, unscheduled visits to the doctor, and days off work or school among adults & children with asthma.
24/7 Monitoring Anywhere
The data results you enter are seamlessly and instantaneously sent to all healthcare professionals within your circle-of-care. Automated alerts will immediately notify them if your results are outside of prescribed parameters. For those with children you will be always aware as to the progress of your children's condition throughout the day. You can keep up to date with the progress of your child's condition during the day whether they are taking their prescribed medicines or
Due to the high prevalence and subsequent health care costs associated with cardiovascular disease, studies have demonstrated the cost effectiveness for heart disease self-management programs. The expenditure-reducing potential of the programs was calculated from the finding that participants incurred 49% lower total hospital in-patient charges.
Automated Alerts, Notifications & Reminders
Data entered throughout the day is automatically monitored checking to see it is within the prescribed parameters of your healthcare professional. When a result entered is outside those parameters an automated alert is sent to parents and healthcare professionals within the circle-of-care warning them of the result. Reminders to enter data or take prescribed medication are automatically sent out as required to a person's cellphone, laptop, PC or PDA. Notifications of new product news and condition related news are also automatically provided to REMEDY™ users.
Community: Chat & Hear form others with the same condition.
REMEDY™ provides for online communities of people with like conditions. You have the ability to discuss with people of the same condition anywhere in the world to see how they are coping and solving their related problems, the benefits of particular medical therapies and regimens, and how they manage symptoms such as pain or fatigue for example.
Your Healthcare Professionals Access is Free
There is no-charge for your healthcare professional to use REMEDY™. Your physician, specialist, nurse practitioner and other healthcare professionals in your 'circle-of-care' are allowed to monitor and assist in the management of your care free of charge in the use of your REMEDY™.
What if my physician does not want to use the software?
If your physician or another healthcare professional in your circle-of-care declines to use the system you have the option to email your results to them or print them out mail them or bring them in during your next visit.
Security & Privacy
The emergence of encryption technology has provided unparalleled advancements in privacy, confidentiality and information security of your information. REMEDY™ does not store any person identifiable information online. If an unauthorized person is able to get into the database they will only see results data, no names, no addresses or other information that would identify who the results belong to.
Manage Multiple Conditions & Multiple Persons with a Single REMEDY™
If you are a single individual with one or more conditions or a parent managing multiple members of your family with various conditions, REMEDY™'s adaptive architecture allows you to customize the care you and each member of your family requires for such conditions as:
- Cardiovascular Issues
- Diabetes
- Cancers
- Respiratory Illnesses
- Arthritis
- Obesity
The flexibility of REMEDY™ is in its design that allows for personalized 1-to-1 outreach of healthcare promotion & management suited to the specific needs of each person's condition.
Helping Healthcare Professionals to Better Supervise Your Condition:
Healthcare professional's resources are being ever more stretched in trying to keep up the quality of care in an ever demanding environment:
- Rushed practitioners are being made to manage increased patient volumes
- Coordination & Communication between healthcare providers is poor (e.g. Physician - Pharmacy - Hospital)
- Lack of active patient monitoring between physician visits to ensure the best outcomes
- Inefficient means to collect, enter, track & analyze data while maintaining care
- Inadequate and Poor Data quality
Problems in Managing Your Condition:
Patients in the past have had significant challenges when attempting to take control of the management of their condition which included:
- Inconvenience: Difficult for you to collect & store data about their condition between visits
- Difficulty communicating with their caregiver. It tends to be time fragmented, initiated mostly by the patient and limited by the patient's accessibility
- Low motivation toward compliance with recommended medication regimen.
- Under-estimation of severity of condition due to lack of monitoring
Patient Empowering Care Addresses these Issues at Reduced Costs
REMEDY™ addresses both the healthcare professional's issues and those of the patients. Managing chronic conditions involves going beyond episodic, symptomatic care to monitoring your condition over the long term, and providing continuous treatment that prevents worsening of your condition and maintains stable function. True patient-focused care must begin and, for as long as possible, remain outside of institutional settings. Assessing risk, planning prevention and coping with symptom fluctuation must happen at home, school, work and other non-clinical settings as any health system moves toward a population-health focus to reducing costs.
REMEDY™'s Patient-centric care is focused on:
- Patient empowerment through enhanced education resulting in treatment regimen compliance
- Predicting "lapse", preventing 'relapse' and insuring against "collapse"
- Involve the patient in his/her own management of their condition
Want to get better control over your condition? Get a REMEDY™
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