Healthcare Payer and Provider to Use Secure Mobile Healthcare
Applications To Improve Convenience, Quality of Care and
Affordability for Subscribers
TORONTO, July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Diversinet Corp.
(TSX Venture: DIV, OTCBB: DVNTF), a leading innovator of secure
mobile applications, announced that HealthPartners, the largest
consumer-governed, nonprofit healthcare organization in
the United States, has licensed
Diversinet's MobiSecure(R) Health platform to enhance mobile
communications with its 1.3 million subscribers.
Under a renewable multi-year agreement, HealthPartners will use
Diversinet's platform to support applications, developed with
Diversinet, to build upon HealthPartners' mobile portfolio.
HealthPartners plans to begin rolling out applications later in the
year.
Initially, HealthPartners will offer programs to help
subscribers communicate with their care managers via secure,
two-way messaging on a range of smart phones and devices that the
MobiSecure platform supports, including the Apple iPhone, Google
Android, RIM BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm
devices.
The first users will be women with high-risk pregnancies, as
well as patients with chronic illnesses who have been recently
discharged from hospitals. Goals will include avoiding premature
births and reducing hospital readmissions.
"We are delighted that such an innovative, respected healthcare
payer and provider has selected our MobiSecure platform to advance
its mobile outreach," said Mark
Trigsted, Diversinet Executive Vice President, Healthcare.
"HealthPartners' vote of confidence demonstrates early results of
our strategic focus on mobile healthcare. We look forward to
working with HealthPartners to leverage our secure, connected and
simple solution to meet its needs."
"The new Diversinet-powered applications will enable us to
extend our commitment to use technology to reach our members how
and when it's convenient for them," said Scott Aebischer, HealthPartners Senior Vice
President, Customer Services and Product Innovation. "We know we
can rely on Diversinet's proven ability to provide secure, two-way
communications for the healthcare industry. The MobiSecure platform
also surpasses other solutions in delivering broad device support,
wide functionality, and easy-to-understand features."
Babette Apland, HealthPartners
Senior Vice President, Health and Care Management, said:
"Diversinet's platform will enable us to communicate with and
increasingly monitor patients in a more personalized, more detailed
and continuous manner. We expect the new applications to contribute
to our ongoing efforts to improve quality of care, patient outcomes
and affordability."
About Diversinet
Diversinet Corp. (TSX Venture: DIV, OTCBB: DVNTF) provides the
healthcare industry with applications that securely connect people
with their healthcare information, providers and payers - anyway,
anytime and anywhere. Diversinet's reliable, end-to-end MobiSecure
platform offers global, secure and cost-effective applications to
meet rapidly growing needs for mobile personal health records.
Connect with Diversinet Corp. at www.diversinet.com. Healthcare.
Connected and Protected.
About HealthPartners
Founded in 1957, the HealthPartners (www.healthpartners.com)
family of health care companies is the largest consumer-governed,
nonprofit health care organization in the nation. For the fifth
year in a row, HealthPartners is rated one of the best commercial
health plans in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, NCQA's
"America's Best Health Insurance Plans 2009-10." The HealthPartners
family of health plans includes HealthPartners, Inc., Group Health
Plan, Inc., HealthPartners Insurance Company, and HealthPartners
Administrators, Inc.
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SOURCE Diversinet Corp.