Health Hero Network and American Medical Group Association Form Strategic Alliance to Improve Chronic Care Management
Posted on: Monday, 18 September 2006, 15:01 CDT
Health Hero Network, a leading innovator of technology solutions for chronic care management, announced it has formed a strategic alliance with the American Medical Group Association (AMGA). The two organizations will work together to develop best practice protocols and operating procedures for medical groups to follow when implementing care-management programs supported by technology-based solutions, such as the Health Buddy(R) system. Additionally, AMGA will initiate programs designed to facilitate dialogue among AMGA members to disseminate best practice learnings about technology-based management solutions and to pave the way for future chronic care management advancements.
"This alliance will produce a better method to care for the hundreds of thousands of patients with chronic conditions that AMGA's members serve," said Steve Brown, chief executive officer of Health Hero Network. "AMGA is a recognized and trusted organization that seeks to improve medical groups and physician performance in line with the national standards of preventive and chronic health care. Their understanding of the needs of medical groups and patients, along with our Health Buddy system and suite of disease management and health maintenance programs, provides a good fit to further meet the needs of people with chronic conditions."
The Health Buddy system enables physician groups to implement high quality care management programs. Through personalized coaching and monitoring, the Health Buddy system encourages patients to actively participate in improving their health care and enables providers to efficiently manage and provide quality care to their patients while decreasing costs.
AMGA represents some of America's largest and multi-specialty medical group practices and integrated health care delivery systems and its members deliver health care to more than 50 million patients in 42 states.
"This alliance will enable us to expand our services and programs, and offer ongoing care management improvement strategies that fit our members' needs and help them better serve patients," said Julie Sanderson-Austin, vice president of quality management research at AMGA. "We are proud to join hands with the Health Hero Network and share a commitment to creating improved care management programs."
The Health Hero Network and AMGA partnership is a key initiative designed to address the challenges in chronic care management. The alliance will involve AMGA's creation of a user group, also known as a "community," comprised of AMGA members, doctors and health care providers utilizing the Health Buddy system. The community will meet annually to develop and review formalized care management process for different disease states and will serve as an information network for improved care management. Other elements of the partnership include bimonthly webinars.
"Improving chronic care is an ongoing priority for AMGA," said Sanderson-Austin. "Creating consistent chronic care management programs has been challenging for all of health care. This alliance gives us a strong partner for developing even more, clinically proven efficient and reliable care management programs and processes."
About Health Hero Network
Health Hero Network develops and markets the Health Buddy(R) system for health improvement. The Health Buddy system serves as the interface between patients at home and care providers, facilitating patient education and monitoring of chronic conditions. The system includes monitoring technologies, clinical information databases, Internet-enabled decision support tools, health management programs and content development tools. Through increased communication, behavior modification, and prevention, the Health Buddy system improves the quality of care. Based in Redwood City, California, Health Hero Network's systems are protected by 57 issued US patents. http://www.healthhero.com
About AMGA
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) represents medical groups, including some of the nation's largest, most prestigious integrated healthcare delivery systems. AMGA advocates for the multi-specialty medical group model of healthcare delivery and for the patients served by medical groups through innovation and information sharing, benchmarking, leadership development, and continuous striving to improve patient care. The members of AMGA deliver health care to more than 50 million patients in 42 states, including 15 million capitated lives. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, AMGA is the strategic partner for medical groups providing a comprehensive package of benefits, including political advocacy, educational and networking programs and publications, benchmarking data services, and financial and operations assistance. For more information, visit www.amga.org.
Media Contacts: Kathy Goodman Health Hero Network, Inc. (650) 779-9134 Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=3C4DBC0DAED42C1C Helen Phung FischerHealth 310-577-7870 ext.109 Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=A92C0A44DAB0CDD4
SOURCE: Health Hero Network
Source: MARKET WIRE
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