BOSTON, June 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Dialog,
a leading provider of population health management services,
announced today the availability of its Interact personal
health portal. Based on more than 20 years of analytics and health
coaching experience, the new portal maximizes patient engagement by
delivering highly personalized health content and resources along
with live coaching to the right person at the right time. The
portal is available to risk-bearing organizations seeking a fully
integrated, cost-effective way to engage an entire population in
changing their behavior to achieve their health improvement
goals.
Rite Aid, one of the nation's leading drugstore chains and
Health Dialog's parent company, will offer the personal health
portal to eligible associates starting later this summer.
The Interact portal uses Care Pathways, Health Dialog's
proprietary analytics framework, to stratify individuals into one
of nine stages based on their progression from wellness to disease
as it relates to the most common medical conditions. This enables
Health Dialog to deliver personalized interventions to individuals
in each stage that help prevent or delay disease progression.
Interact facilitates delivery of these interventions in the
most cost-effective manner, which in turn helps risk-bearing
entities improve the health of the populations they serve while
reducing overall costs.
"Our new portal maximizes patient engagement through a unique
combination of proprietary analytics and multi-channel
communications capabilities," said Web Golinkin, Chief Executive
Officer of Health Dialog. "By engaging individuals exactly where
they are in their health journey and using a combination of
digital, telephonic and in-person channels to reach them in the
most cost-effective manner, we help achieve better outcomes for
third-party payers and their members, patients and employees."
Health Dialog's new portal was developed in partnership with h2
wellness, a 10-year-old company with a deep understanding of how to
leverage technology in ways that influence human behavior and help
improve the health of a population.
"Many health and wellness initiatives today focus on tracking
behavior not changing it. It is the shared goal of creating a
portal that will empower consumers to change their behavior in ways
that will improve their health and well-being that initially
brought h2 and Health Dialog together," said Hooman Fakki, Chief Executive Officer of h2
wellness.
The Interact portal not only provides individuals with
easy access to a wide variety of health information and resources,
it also breaks new ground by pushing personalized information to
its users through multiple channels. It is available to health
plans, risk-bearing providers and self-insured employers seeking an
integrated, one-vendor solution for engaging an entire
population—from sick to well—in better managing their
health.
Using Interact, individuals can:
- Access personalized disease management programs and wellness
tools to help manage a wide range of chronic health conditions
such as diabetes and heart disease or achieve lifestyle goals such
as weight loss and smoking cessation.
- Use Shared decision making (SDM) tools to make better, more
informed health choices. Health Dialog's Shared decision making
resources have collectively earned the company more than 100
industry awards for content, ease-of-use and design. Studies show
that people who use these tools tend to choose less invasive care
and report being more satisfied with both their care and their
health plan, which translates to better health outcomes and reduced
costs for both individuals and organizations.
- Participate in health and wellness activities using their
preferred delivery method. Individuals can access health
information and coaches via online and mobile channels as well as
via telephonic and in-person channels, ensuring that they engage
with content in a manner that works best for them and is most
cost-effective for sponsoring organizations.
- Upload data from 180 wellness devices and apps,
including popular fitness wearables such as Fitbit, Jawbone and
MapMyRun. Patients managing a chronic condition can integrate
specialized devices such as glucometers, blood pressure cuffs,
heart rate monitors and scales.
- Participate fully in a personalized and incentivized path to
better health by creating a customized health action plan and
registering for notifications, reminders and incentives. Users can
also accept a wellness challenge and seek support from social
networks and forums.
About Health Dialog:
Health Dialog Services Corporation is a leading provider of
population health management solutions. As a wholly owned
subsidiary of Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE:RAD), the company works
with the nation's largest health plans, employers and providers to
improve the health and wellness of their members, employees,
patients and customers while reducing costs and improving
performance in key quality measures, such as NCQA's HEDIS and CMS'
Stars ratings. Health Dialog's unique capabilities include data
analytics, a multi-channel coaching platform, shared
decision-making tools and a 24/7 nurse line. For more information,
visit www.healthdialog.com.
About h2 wellness:
Founded in 2005, h2 wellness is a
cloud-based, population health and engagement company that allows
health and wellness brands worldwide to improve the lives of their
customers and increase customer satisfaction, retention and
revenues. Its platform helps clients provide their customers with
innovative digital tools and coaching in a cost-effective, timely
manner, eliminating the risk of software development and ongoing
maintenance. h2's platform is used by millions of consumers in 15
countries and nine languages, as offered by leading companies in
the healthcare, wellness, fitness, weight loss, nutrition, and
corporate health markets. For more information, visit
www.h2wellness.com.
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