ATLANTA, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- With the goal of creating
the industry standard for connecting patients and their
physician-led care teams, Alere today announced the formation of a
new strategic product line, Collaborative Care Solutions®.
The new product line will be focused on supporting physicians
and provider groups wanting to expand their practices via
patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) or accountable care
organizations (ACO) -- key care models designed to realize better
outcomes and more cost-effective care.
Collaborative Care Solutions consolidates technologies of
Alere's market-leading Wellness and Disease Management programs,
the rapid diagnostic testing capabilities of its parent Inverness
Medical Innovations, and the web-based collaborative clinical care
software of recently acquired RMD (a communications portal tailored
specifically to the needs of physicians and their practices). When
fully integrated with the Apollo Health Management System, these
solutions will help reinforce treatment plans and provide more
actionable, timely and patient-specific information to physicians
and other care providers.
"Today, many physicians are challenged with factors they are
ill-prepared to address, such as poor lifestyle habits, a lack of
patient education and understanding about health risks and chronic
illnesses, and non-compliance with their treatment regimens," noted
Gordon Norman, MD, chief innovation
officer for Alere. "Collaborative Care Solutions is designed to
support physicians and their patients by promoting adherence to
evidence-based treatment plans and encouraging healthy behaviors
and decisions that lead to improved health."
Collaborative Care Solutions enables greater connectivity among
clinicians, patients and other business partners for improved care
coordination, by providing a "one-to-many" solution for the entire
practice that is based on an intuitive, modular, web-based
platform. It also serves to promote more efficient,
convenient health care delivery, including secure messaging, remote
care monitoring, condition registries, quality reporting, and
e-prescribing. The Collaborative Care Solutions service can
share data with and act as a complement to electronic medical
record (EMR) systems in use by a physician practice, said
Darren M. Schulte, MD, executive
vice president of Collaborative Care for Alere. "By knitting
together disparate data sources at a patient level, we help
physicians operate more efficiently, make smarter and more informed
health care decisions, and practice at the top of their license."
For more information on Alere's Collaborative Care Solutions
program, contact: Darren Schulte,
MD, at 650-616-4361.
About Alere
Alere (www.alere.com) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (www.invernessmedical.com)
(NYSE: IMA). Alere, a Latin verb, meaning "to care for" or "to
support", offers the most patient-centered health management
services available from a single provider in the industry. Alere
services provide health interventions that are designed for the
entire lifespan from pre-cradle (high-risk pregnancy and NICU
management) to end-of-life care (complex care) as well as the
continuum of health from wellness (health and productivity
programs) and prevention to total health management of the
individual for those having various chronic illnesses.
Collaborative Care Solutions® is a trademark of the Inverness
group of companies.
© 2010 Alere. All rights reserved. Alere is a trademark of the
Inverness group of companies.
SOURCE Alere