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AT&T Inc. 19
Better Health AT&T is joining with developers and health care providers to develop
solutions that combine mobility technologies, devices, connectivity and applications
to drive down medical costs and help patients live longer, better lives.
A case in point: the mHealth Solution from AT&T and WellDoc®. Recognizing that nearly no
one leaves home without a wireless device, AT&T is creating an end-to-end solution around
a cutting-edge mobile application to help people with diabetes better track, monitor and
manage their disease. The mHealth Solution allows patients to enter information, including
blood sugar readings, into a wireless application that provides instant feedback and specific
guidance, based on clinical algorithms. With real-time data upload, doctors and nurses can
provide better, more timely support for patients, which not only has the potential to lower
costs of care but, more important, helps caregivers target patients who need the most help.
AT&T, working with WellDoc, is initiating the product with a select group of AT&T employees
with diabetes in early 2011 and then rolling it out to other corporations.
Or consider the Heartrak ECAT (External Cardiac Ambulatory Telemetry) solution from Mednet
Healthcare Technologies Inc. AT&T provides the wireless connectivity to transmit data directly
from the heart monitor to Mednet. And because patients are mobile, they can wear the
monitor for up to 30 days, giving doctors more and better diagnostic data.
Patients’ failure to take their medication as prescribed can have deadly consequences. But
imagine a world where pill bottles remind patients when they’ve missed a scheduled dose. With
Vitality GlowCaps, the AT&T network relays adherence data based on the times a pill bottle is
opened so that Vitality can send patients visual and audio reminders to take their medication.
AT&T is collaborating with these — and many other — organizations to improve patient care.
And the company is excited about the growth opportunities in the mobile health arena.
“With AT&T’s reputation for innovation
and investment in health care solutions,
collaborating with them was a no-brainer.”
— Ryan Sysko, Founder and CEO, WellDoc
Bedminster, New Jersey
MHEALTH SOLUTION