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AdherenceRx and Healthwise Help Patients Overcome Health Challenges
Behavior Change Programs Achieve Better Health Outcomes for Consumers
| Source: Healthwise
WASHINGTON, DC and BOISE, ID--(Marketwire - September 9, 2009) - AdherenceRx and Healthwise
announced today a collaboration designed to help improve patient outcomes.
By combining one-on-one behavioral health coaching from AdherenceRx with
high-quality decision support information and tools from Healthwise,
patients can now get the help, support, and positive reinforcement they
need to significantly improve their health and better manage chronic
disease.
"Healthwise and AdherenceRx blend their unique behavior change approaches
to help improve patient outcomes with expert health coaches and customized
health tools and information," said Chris Cresswell, CEO of AdherenceRx.
"The AdherenceRx personalized coaching program combined with Healthwise
information and tools will not only help patients adhere to their
prescribed medicines, but also can contribute to a patient's long-term
overall health."
TheAdherenceRx customized coaching program addresses the challenges
patients face when they are trying to adhere to prescribed therapies,
manage their health, and adopt healthy lifestyles. A dedicated personal
coach for each patient, open access to the coach, state-of-the-art
communications technology, and the latest teachings of behavioral science
combine to provide patients with unparalleled support and the guidance they
need to be successful.
As part of the program, coaches can now refer patients to Healthwise
resources, including the Healthwise® Knowledgebase and Healthwise®
Ix® Conversations. The online Knowledgebase covers more than 8,000
decision-focused health and wellness topics. In addition, patients can link
to Ix Conversations where they can interact with a "virtual" health coach
who uses behavior change principles to reinforce the messages that
AdherenceRx coaches provide. Now health plans and disease management firms
will have the opportunity to take advantage of the AdherenceRx and
Healthwise combined offering.
"Providing Healthwise information and tools through the AdherenceRx
technology and programs will provide patients with the prescribed
information they need to make successful health changes," said Donald W.
Kemper, Healthwise chairman and CEO. "Well-informed patients receive higher
quality care and better health outcomes -- and generally at a lower overall
cost."
About AdherenceRx
AdherenceRx works with health plans and pharmaceutical manufacturers to
support patients with evidence-based health coaching specifically tailored
to improving medication adherence and patient lifestyles. Founded in the
science of positive psychology and behavior modification, AdherenceRx
customizes health coaching solutions to the needs of targeted patient
populations by blending behavioral and clinical interventions with "Live"
and "Virtual" health coaching, which can be delivered through the
convenience of a patient's mobile phone. By changing a patient's beliefs,
motivations, and behavior, AdherenceRx differentiates itself in the
marketplace by delivering sustainable and improved medication adherence and
patient outcomes.
About Healthwise
Healthwise is a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make
better health decisions. Nearly 120 million times a year, people turn to
Healthwise information to learn how to do more for themselves, ask for the
care they need, and say "no" to the care they don't need. Healthwise
partners with health plans, hospitals, disease management companies, and
health Web sites to provide up-to-date, evidence-based information to the
people they serve. To learn more about how Healthwise Decision Points, 147
interactive decision aids, help people make better health decisions, visit
www.healthwise.org or call 1.800.706.9646.
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Healthwise, Healthwise for every health decision, and the Healthwise logo are
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