Monitoring System Instructions

Constant Health Companion with Modem

1. Noncompliance is prevalent across disease state and patient demographics
2. Noncompliance patients do not receive the intended benefits of medications and treatments and as a result, their health often deteriorates, contributing to unnecessary and preventable healthcare costs.

• Reminds the patient to take medication or treatments at each prescribed time of day
• Displays on a LCD screen the exact actions to take
• Is compact for portability; serves as an electronic nurse nanny—staying with the patient
• Retains key information on prescriptions, physician and medical clinic names and phone numbers--- for access when traveling if needed
• Is easily programmed in a medical clinic or by a health management company--- or in some cases at home by the patient or patients’ children
• Reminds the patient with a beeping sound, and continues to remind until patient acknowledges
• Compliance data is saved for remote retrieval for those registered to receive

• A subscription based service for users of the Constant Health Companion; using a leading network provider as the national host and HIPPA compliant data base
• Allows physician or caregiver to monitor use of medications and treatments
• A transmitting modem automatically uploads the data on a daily basis; modem is connected to phone jack; wireless option coming
• System provides alerts when patient is noncompliant facilitating better intervention that can help prevent a worsening condition
• Compliance data is saved and can be reviewed daily, weekly, monthly or other time intervals
• Monitoring allows for evaluation of compliance behavior profile and education adjustments MODEM
• Allows for remote programming changes
• Allows for messaging back to patient

To the Patient:

• Better compliance
     o Columbia University Study resulted in 98% improvement in the 
          percentage taking all their medications.
• Better intervention
• Better health outcome

To the Health Insurance Company, Disease Mgmt Cos.:

• Better targeted care to the most chronic
• Enhanced compliance and health outcome
• Substantial lower costs of care per targeted person with compliance system
       o Missouri Medicaid study showed $3400 average annual savings per   
           diabetic patient.
• Ability to base co-pay or premium on level of compliance
• Keep employees healthy, or assist in early return to work, through compliance
   

To the Physician:

• Ability to “follow” the patient after they leave the clinic
• Provide much needed service
• Identify the noncompliant and introduce education

To the Caregiver Organization (independent living, assisted living):

• Helps individuals to remain independent longer
• Added value service
• Intervention opportunities, behavior modification

To the Pharmacy:

• Enhanced and proper compliance results in added value service.

All people with chronic conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, pulmonary disease, HIV, mental disorders, organ transplant, post surgery, severe asthma and more.

Only the ALRT monitoring system provides monitoring of nebulizer compressors that COPD patients use to maintain health. It reminds them to use the neb—displays the duration of use---and records time of day used and how long used for monitoring purposes. The ALRT system, in mid-2008, will add capabilities to provide monitoring the use of, and data from, medical diagnostic equipment such as blood pressure and blood glucose.