Do Make It Personal –
iReminder’s Adherence System Delivers
Automated Reminders in Your Voice
Compliance for Life™ Helps Busy, Active
Family Members Stay on Their Medications
WESTFIELD, NJ [January 8, 2008] –
If mom is the CEO of her family’s healthcare,
how well she runs her “company” and manages
her own time are vital to her family’s health
– and to the bottom line of all sectors of the
healthcare industry. With pharmaceutical manufacturers
losing $30M annually as a result of medication non-compliance
and the cost of preventable hospitalizations growing
to $15B annually, helping family members stay healthy
is more important than ever.
With the release of the latest upgrade
to its flagship product, Compliance
for Life™,
iReminder, LLC (iReminder.com)
is meeting this challenge by offering greater personalization
in reminder messages. Instead of text-to-speech messages,
phone and email reminders are delivered in the voice
of the person who sets them up. And the message can
be as specific as needed for the person receiving
it. So mothers – and other family “health
managers” – can record one set of reminder
messages for an elderly parent, messages tailored
to each child, and messages for a spouse. And, while
she is at it, she can send reminders to herself, as
well. To use Compliance for Life, family members,
caregivers and case managers receive subscriptions
to the service from their managed care providers,
employers or pharmacies.
“Who better to remind you to take
your medication than the person who cares most about
your health? Knowing that a daughter cares whether
her elderly mother is taking her medication a daughter cares whether her elderly mother is taking
her medication or that a physician is concerned
with her patient’s well-being is a major motivator
to staying on medication,” said Amy
J. Yoffie, CEO of iReminder.
Message personalization is enhanced
by Compliance for Life’s Confirmation Contact
feature that notifies the “health manager”
in real-time, as soon as their loved one misses a
dose.
"Everyone I know who cares for
an elderly parent or a sick teenager worries about
whether they are taking medication and feels guilty
when they don’t have a chance to check up on
them during the day. Knowing they will be notified
if the family member does not take their medication
is a great stress reliever,” added Ms. Yoffie.
Compliance for Life also has a place
in disease management companies, pharmacy benefit
management firms, and managed care organizations.
Health coaches use Compliance for Life to set up reminders,
deliver targeted messages to each patient and monitor
patients’ compliance in real time. Its Patient
List Report lets health coaches quickly determine
the percent of compliance of each patient they work
with, enabling them to focus on severely non-compliant
patients. The system can be integrated into existing
programs or offered as a stand-alone service. Compliance
for Life is licensed to companies in the healthcare
sector, large employers, and non-profits, which, in
turn, offer
it as a direct-to-consumer program.
iReminder offers an SaaS (software as
a service) model to managed care organizations, employers
and pharmacies so they can offer Compliance for Life’s
patent-pending technology to their customers 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.
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iReminder, LLC
iReminder, LLC a healthcare technology
company, has developed Compliance for
Life™ (CFL), a scalable adherence
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 iReminder.com or call 877-326-3293.
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