Today, Alert Technologies announced Mail Meds will use its disease management program to supply a CHC(TM) system to Medicare patients. This is momentous as non adherence costs $150 billion a year in preventable healthcare costs. Mail Med is also a provider of drug adherence systems through their Med Box(TM) and Personalized Pill Box system.
Based out of Fort Myers, Fl Mail Meds specializes in simplifying medication regimes for the chronically ill. They help patients with Diabetes, Heart Failure, HIV/AIDS and mental health issues. Mail Meds provides these adherence systems and medication regimes to (SNP’s) and assisted living homes.
The CHC(TM) system by Alert Technologies is targeted at Home patients that alerts patients when they have failed to take a needed medication. This market according to a recent research report from Forrester Research, Inc. is to grow to $5 billion by 2010 and then to $35 billion by 2015. CHC also addresses the need for constant monitoring in healthcare management. This enables the healthcare provider to remotely monitor patients and provide timely assistance when needed. Alert’s CHC system costs 30% less and provides more features than any other available substitute. Alert Technologies goal is to have the International Healthcare Industry consider the CHC system as the standard operating procedure.
Mail Meds is providing the CHC system to their patients at no added costs to qualified patients. Currently there is 40 million Medicare and 46 million Medicaid patients and these numbers are expected to rises as Baby Boomers continue to age. This is creating an even greater need for Alert’s CHC™ system. v President and CEO of Mail-Meds, Mark Jay Theobald, is quoted saying, “We are pleased to offer this service to qualified patients, where medication adherence is critical to maintaining their health. The combination of the CHC and the Mail-Meds Med-Box(TM) will address the major issues driving non-adherence. Our mission is to be the industry leader in improving medication adherence for chronically ill patients. Our total service package will improve health outcomes for these patients and reduce the escalating healthcare costs.”
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