GuildNet to Pilot Program to Improve Patient Medication Compliance
14 Juin 2010 - 2:57PM
Business Wire
American Medical Alert Corp. (NASDAQ: AMAC), a provider of
healthcare communication services and remote monitoring
technologies, announced today that GuildNet, a managed long-term
care program that offers a community-based alternative to
facility-based long-term care will pilot AMAC’s MedSmart®
Medication Management System to evaluate whether the Medsmart
system will improve medication compliance. Wanda Figueroa-Kilroy,
GuildNet’s Executive Vice President, notes “we hope to not only
improve outcomes with this program, but also to reduce overall
healthcare costs, decrease caregiver “strain” and increase patient
satisfaction.” Each member of the study is chronically ill,
multidisabled and/or visually impaired.
Frederic Siegel, AMAC’s Executive Vice President stated, “We are
extremely pleased that GuildNet will be evaluating our system in
this initiative and believe MedSmart will complement GuildNet’s
mission to enhance and support independent living activities.
MedSmart is an easy-to-use solution for organizing complex
medication regimens and will provide GuildNet with enhanced
monitoring and notification capabilities to encourage patient
compliance and foster greater patient provider communication.”
About GuildNet
GuildNet, a subsidiary of The Jewish Guild for the Blind, is a
program designed to keep visually impaired, blind, multi-disabled
and chronically ill persons in their communities. It helps more
than 6,500 people in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, Nassau
and Suffolk by providing long term care services to Medicaid
eligible persons over age 18 through its managed long-term care
program and GuildNet Gold, its Medicare Advantage/Medicaid
Advantage Plus Special Needs Plan. To learn more, call
1-800-932-4703.
About American Medical Alert Corp. and MedSmart
AMAC is a healthcare communications company dedicated to the
provision of support services to the healthcare community. AMAC’s
product and service portfolio includes Personal Emergency Response
Systems (PERS) and 24/7 monitoring, electronic medication reminder
devices, disease management monitoring appliances and healthcare
communication solutions services. AMAC operates eight US based,
communication centers under local trade names: HLINK OnCall, North
Shore TAS, Live Message America, ACT Teleservice, MD OnCall,
Capitol Medical Bureau, American MediConnect, and Phone Screen to
support the delivery of high quality, healthcare communications. To
learn more about AMAC, visit www.amac.com.
The MedSmart® System organizes, reminds and dispenses the
correct pills at the correct time from 1 to 6 times per day
ensuring safe and appropriate medication use. Containing a two-way
communication modem, MedSmart uploads device and dispensing
information on a daily basis to a secure, web portal for access by
authorized individuals. If a dose is missed or medications are low,
the system will promptly notify designated caregivers via text,
voice or email message, allowing for early intervention and timely
tray refill.
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