Rx.Health and Healthwise Announce Partnership to Bring On-Demand "Health Education and Shared Decision Making-as-a-Service" to Health Plans and Health Systems

    SECAUCUS, NJ, February 12, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- As over 45,000 professionals from across the world travel to HIMSS 2019 seeking the education, innovation, and collaboration needed to transform health through information and technology, Rx.Health is very excited to announce that the company has partnered with Healthwise, a leading creator of health content and patient education materials, to integrate Healthwise content into the RxStitch engine patient care pathways for targeted delivery to patients at the most critical time during their treatment. The content can be delivered to entire cohorts of patients using Rx.Health Bulk PrescribingTM tool with pre-built FHIR APIs and web-services to automate population health outreach by care managers in health plans and health systems.

"Getting the right health education to patients at the most relevant time during their care journey is a gap in offsite patient clinical support that Healthwise logically helps us fill," said Andy Pfau, Chief Operating Officer of Rx.Health. "Every provider can attest to the inefficacy of handwritten or paper instructions, which patients often lose or misplace within hours of their clinical visit. By providing the appropriate content or education materials within an Rx.Stitch care pathway, we're now not only providing content when a patient needs it the most, but also encouraging shared decision making tools that promote positive patient behavior. This is how we optimize patient education materials and modernize their use for value-based care."

The RxStitchTM care pathways take seemingly disparate digital assets, including health content and patient education materials, and combines them into a complimentary suite of bundled services that enhance patient care outside of the clinical setting. The appropriate tools are then introduced to patients and the most relevant points of care, ensuring high adoption and utilization of those materials.

"By partnering with Rx.Health we extend the reach of our rich multimedia content through a plug-and-play module in the EHR, care management systems, and patient portals, as well as in disease-specific health bots and digital care plans," stated Dave Mink, the Chief Client Officer for Healthwise. "We're excited about our partnership with Rx.Health, and the impact we can make by getting the right materials in front of a patient when they need it the most."

About Healthwise
Healthwise, a leader in evidence-based health education, technology, and services, is a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. People have turned to Healthwise information more than 2 billion times to learn how to do more for themselves, ask for the care they need, and say "no" to the care they don't need. Healthwise partners with hospitals, electronic medical record (EMR) providers, health plans, care management companies, and health websites to provide up-to-date, evidence-based information to the people they serve. www.healthwise.org. 1.800.706.9646.

About Rx.Health

Rx.Health is changing the way both patients and provider think about digital medicine. A spinoff from the Mount Sinai Health System, Rx.Health's flagship product, RxUniverse, is the first enterprise-wide Digital Medicine delivery system that enables physicians to prescribe evidence-based mobile health applications, multi-media education, wearables, and therapeutics to patients at the point of care. Information on Rx.Health and RxUniverse is available at http://Rx.Health or follow Rx.Health on Twitter @Rx_Health.

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