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Currahee Health Benefits and WellMed Partner to Provide Comprehensive Online Health Management Tools and Services to Employers
ATLANTA & PORTLAND, Ore.-- Flexible, personalized online health and benefit information combats rising health care costs
Currahee Health Benefits Solutions, Inc. and WellMed, Inc., a health communication company, announced today a distributor partnership to provide the WellMed Health Hub(TM) to the more than 95,000 people who are served by Currahee's disease management and health and wellness services.
Currahee's relationship with WellMed will enable its clients to strengthen their existing services with personalized, online health resources designed to better manage escalating health care costs.
"There's no one-shot solution to addressing the rising cost of health care," explains Mack Bryson, CEO of Currahee. "We work with companies to address a number of factors: chronic illness, behavior and lifestyle modification, and now -- with the services of WellMed -- empowerment of the employee to control his or her health care."
The WellMed Health Hub enables Currahee clients to offer employees and their dependants current and relevant health information on their personal health home page. Employees can also identify their health risks, track personal health information, import clinical data such as test results and health records, access interactive health improvement programs and participate in personalized care plans. The Health Hub will be available to all Currahee clients.
"Currahee expands the reach of the WellMed Health Hub to clients seeking improvements to their risk, disease and prescription drug management," said Craig Froude, chairman and CEO of WellMed. "We will provide the online infrastructure for Currahee clients to customize a program that is personalized to employee health needs and reduces administrative and communication costs."
The WellMed Health Hub
The WellMed Health Hub helps clients enhance the quality of care and services they provide, while controlling escalating health care costs. The Health Hub provides a secure online health communication platform that aggregates self-reported health information and integrates it with a corporation's business rules, benefits, guidelines and third-party health resources. Then, following proprietary analysis, the Health Hub communicates with clients and individuals to guide them in achieving their health-related objectives. With the business intelligence provided by the WellMed Health Hub, employers can easily modify their existing programs and services to more effectively meet employee needs and bring about positive behavioral change.
The core products and related applications that comprise the WellMed Health Hub include:
| | - Personal Health Manager(TM) -- The interactive dashboard for
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individuals that contains a comprehensive suite of online
health assessments, condition information and personalized,
relevant health resources to elevate the user's ability to
effectively manage health issues on a daily basis.
| | - Personal Health Insight(TM) -- The decision-support control
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panel that clients use to analyze aggregate health data in
real time, address population health risks, proactively
implement preventive programs, and communicate directly with
individual users.
| | - Personal Health Connect(TM) -- The secure communication tool
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that facilitates online dialogue between individuals and
providers, thus enabling more streamlined and effective
individual health management.
About Currahee
Currahee Health Benefits Solutions works with companies who have self-funded health insurance programs, identifying where risks exist through the auditing of pharmacy and medical claims and designing programs to help manage chronic illness and encourage healthy lifestyles and behaviors. Currahee offers companies and municipalities creative and aggressive solutions to escalating health care costs. Chronic disease management programs are customized to the needs, wants, and desires of each client. Currahee clients normally experience a positive financial return on investment, supported by clinical data, within eighteen (18) months from the inception date of the programs.
About WellMed
WellMed's award-winning online products and services enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health, while providing client organizations with business intelligence to proactively address costly health care issues. Organizations that purchase WellMed's solutions include self-insured corporations, health insurance companies, government agencies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and national retailers. WellMed, Inc. is headquartered in Portland, Ore., with regional offices in Seattle, Atlanta, and Boise.
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