Richmond, VA and Vancouver, BC / ACCESSWIRE / September 29, 2014 / ALR Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: ALRT), the chronic care medical device company positioned at the forefront of remote patient care, is pleased to announce that company president Bill Smith was a guest on the "Good Life Revolution" with award winning host Jesse Dylan, powered by Megacast. Smith explains how the company's proprietary Health-e-Connect device is paving the way for the future of Remote Patient Care by eliminating complications with patient data and cutting Health Care costs whilst creating a unique pool of profit for the Company.
"We can have clinical experts online looking at a patients data on a regular basis between office visits and the patients wouldn't have to do anything except plug their glucose meter into their computer," Smith explains. The Health-E-Connect device connects patients and Diabetes Care Facilitators through its remote care system.
"It's a way of monitoring a patient's health between office visits and for diabetes patients that's very important," Smith says.
ALRT has recently begun enrolling patients with the Kansas City Metropolitan Physician Association (KCMPA), which is the first large-scale commercial deployment of the Health-e-Connect remote management system. The goal is to lower high-risk glucose levels of some of KCMPA's most challenging diabetic patients.
"Health-e-Connect was designed to help accountable care organizations like KCMPA coordinate patient care among primary care physicians, endocrinologists, and other specialists to improve outcomes," says Smith. "KCMPA is on the forefront of this wave of medical innovation."
The impact of diabetes on a global scale is on the rise; nearly 300 million people are expected to be diagnosed with diabetes by the year 2025 and the total cost of managing the disease in the United States alone is up to $245 billion, including $176 billion in direct medical costs.
"It's a huge issue worldwide…it's exploding in Latin America and it's exploding in Asia. It's really a public health pandemic that's affecting the entire globe," says Smith.
However the adverse cost to monitor diabetes is on track to be offset by the proposed Medicare bill that would see doctors and physicians reimbursed for using technology like ALRT's Health-e-Connect.
"There's a lot of work that happens when the patient isn't physically in the office, so Medicare is proposing to pay physicians to do that work. What it means for our company is that if we are managing a patient behind the scenes [and remotely], the doctors can potentially be paid for that work and in turn pay ALRT for our services," says Smith.
The proposed payment schedule would reimburse physicians $41.92 for 20 minutes of remote chronic care management each month, and the Health-e-Connect is the only off-the-shelf remote chronic care management solution providing physicians to take full advantage of the proposed reimbursement. With Health-e-Connect, physicians and practitioners can meet their quality goals for diabetes care and for the first time receive reimbursement for behind the scenes care.
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About ALR Technologies Inc.
ALR Technologies is a medical device company providing remote monitoring and care facilitation for patients with chronic diseases. ALRT has developed the FDA-cleared and HIPAA compliant Health-e-Connect System that collects data from blood glucose meters and uploads to a secure website. Trained Facilitators use the System to effect efficiency of care among patients, clinicians and caregivers to improve outcomes and assist health plans to optimize their quality goals. Currently, the Company is focused on diabetes and will expand its services to cover other chronic diseases anchored on verifiable data.
For more information regarding ALRT and the Health-e-Connect system, Please visit http://www.glntv.tv/alrt or http://alrt.com/.
SOURCE: ALR Technologies Inc.