PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania,
September 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Elsevier Clinical
Solutions, in collaboration with Tonic, will help further develop
the platform with its high quality medical content
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and
medical information products and services, has agreed exclusively
to market and help further develop Tonic Health's simple, fun and
intuitive patient data collection platform.
Using its deep experience serving the healthcare provider
market, Elsevier will employ its sales force to offer Tonic's
highly engaging, tablet- and web-based, EHR-integrated data
collection platform for patients. The solution includes a powerful,
easy-to-use survey builder that allows providers to create, manage
and edit all surveys, forms and questionnaires across their
enterprise. Healthcare providers use these fully customizable tools
to analyze and act upon the results in real time.
"As we sought to collaborate with an experienced player in the
healthcare market, we found that Elsevier has the right combination
of reach, reputation and content that will help Tonic thrive," said
Sterling Lanier, CEO and co-founder
of Tonic Health. "We're looking forward to further developing our
platform with Elsevier and bringing Tonic to more and more
hospitals and health systems."
Used by many leading health systems such as Partners HealthCare,
New York-Presbyterian and UCLA Health, Tonic's intuitive user
interface and broad functionality engages patients and optimizes
patient data collection across in- and out-patient settings and for
an array of provider needs, including patient intake, real-time
patient screening and risk assessments, patient satisfaction,
patient education and patient-reported outcomes. As U.S. health
systems become increasingly accountable for patient outcomes beyond
the hospital setting, the need for tools that enable providers to
capture accurate patient information is critical. Tonic enables
providers to collect more accurate information from patients and
use it to make better care decisions that improve outcomes and
reduce costs.
"We are very excited about our collaboration with Tonic because
it will help our customers engage directly with patients and make
collecting important data less of a chore for patients," said
Jay Katzen, President, Elsevier
Clinical Solutions. "Tonic will help us broaden and deepen our
relationships with the hospitals and health systems we currently
serve through its revolutionary approach to user experience that
will foster and enhance relationships with patients."
Tonic's patient data collection platform complements the
Elsevier Clinical Solutions suite, particularly its patient
engagement solutions, including ExitCare. The combination of Tonic
and ExitCare ensure that providers and patients have the
information they need to deliver and manage patient health both in
and outside the hospital. The Elsevier Clinical Solutions suite
also includes a portfolio of solutions for workflow and decision
support, clinical reference and drug reference, and performance
management.
Tonic was founded collaboratively by a consumer marketing expert
and a technologist with deep experience in user interface design,
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), mobile and Web applications
to solve the difficult challenge of gathering accurate and
actionable patient-reported data. The result was the pairing of a
simple, intuitive and entertaining interface with robust real-time
analytics and CRM capabilities. Simply put, patients provide
better, more meaningful information because the Tonic solution is
easy and fun to use. This allows providers to gather more and more
accurate data from patients with the goal of providing better, more
personalized care at a lower cost.
For more information about Elsevier and Tonic, email
patient@elsevier.com.
About Tonic Health
Tonic Health (http://www.tonicforhealth.com) is an iPad- and
web-based medical data collection platform that uses extreme
patient engagement and real-time predictive analytics to
dramatically improve the process of gathering, analyzing and acting
upon patient data. The Tonic platform is secure and
HIPAA-compliant, and interfaces with existing EMR installations and
other backend databases. Based in Palo
Alto, Calif., Tonic provides a Disney-like experience for
patients across a broad range of its leading enterprise health
system customers, including Partners HealthCare, New
York-Presbyterian, MedStar Health, UCLA Health, UC San Francisco,
the Veterans Health Administration, Florida
Hospital, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and more.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions
that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology
professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, deliver
better care, and sometimes make groundbreaking discoveries that
advance the boundaries of knowledge and human progress. Elsevier
provides web-based, digital solutions - among them
ScienceDirect, Scopus, Elsevier Research Intelligence and
ClinicalKey - and publishes nearly 2,200 journals, including The
Lancet and Cell, and over 25,000 book titles, including
a number of iconic reference works.
The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading
provider of professional information solutions in the Science,
Medical, Legal and Risk and Business sectors, which is jointly
owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols
are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and
ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
Media contact
Christopher Capot
Director, Corporate Relations
Elsevier
+1-212-633-3164
c.capot@elsevier.com