January 2, 2001 Internet Disease Management Program
INNOVATIVE RESOURCE GROUP TO WORK WITH HEALTH HERO NETWORK TO DEPLOY INTERNET-ENHANCED DISEASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Waukesha, WI - January 2, 2001 - Innovative Resource Group, a national care management company, announced the signing of an agreement with Health Hero Network, Inc. to enhance Innovative Resource Group’s existing disease management programs. Innovative Resource Group will leverage the Health Hero platform to connect Innovative Resource Group’s disease management care managers with their chronically ill clients in their homes, and deliver disease management services on a daily basis.
“Achieving measurable results through innovation is one of our disease management goals.” noted David Burnett M.D., Vice President and Medical Director of Innovative Resource Group, “The Health Hero program provides us the technology to achieve this goal and positively impact the lives of our customers.”
Under the terms of the agreement the Health Hero platform will be incorporated into Innovative Resource Group’s asthma, diabetes, prenatal and congestive heart failure disease management programs. Each Innovative Resource Group disease management participant will be given a Health Buddy® personal information appliance enabling them to receive and respond to inquiries from Innovative Resource Group’s disease management care managers on a daily basis. The care managers will use the Health Hero® iCare Desktop™ web application to receive and review risk stratified customer responses to determine who is in need of intervention or additional support.
“One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century is creating a health care system that meets the needs of chronic care in an aging population,” said Steve Brown, CEO of Health Hero Network. “Innovative Resource Group is one of the pioneers in using new technology to improve the productivity and effectiveness of chronic care, and it is an honor to be selected as a technology partner.”
Innovative Resource Group
Innovative Resource Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Wisconsin Services, Inc., has 15 years of care management experience in the areas of medical and behavioral healthcare, disease management, workers compensation and consulting. Innovative Resource Group serves 1.4 million people across the nation. United Wisconsin Services, Inc., a $750 million publicly traded company (NYSE: UWZ), owns the largest health maintenance organization system in Wisconsin. For more information about Innovative Resource Group, visit www.IRGresources.com.
About Health Hero Network
Health Hero Network, Inc., based in Mountain View, California, develops and markets the industry leading technology platform for remote patient communications, monitoring, and care management. The Health Hero platform includes a technology platform for remote patient monitoring and Internet-based care management and research application services. The Health Hero® solution consists of web-based tools for caregivers and the Health Buddy® appliance, iCare Desktop™, a web based patient management application for health care professionals, patient interfaces such as the Health Buddy appliance, a secure data center acting as the repository for application services and collected data, and content for over a dozen major chronic diseases. Health Hero Network licenses its platform to medical technology and services companies seeking a technology blueprint proven to enable better chronic care with lower costs to the healthcare system. Health Hero Network technology is protected by over 40 issued U.S. patents. For more information about Health Hero, visit www.healthhero.com.
