Alere® programs are designed to support treatment planning and promote patient compliance outside of the physician's office.

Physicians

The Alere® Heart Failure Program, an at-home program for patients with advanced heart failure, is a daily connection to patients that reinforces physician prescribed treatment plans. Placing the patented DayLink® monitor in patients' homes to track weight and heart failure symptoms, facilitates efficiency for the physician by providing timely, actionable information. It gives physicians real-time biometric and symptomatic information when early clinical intervention is needed to improve their patient's health and prevent costly hospitalizations.

A key feature of the Alere program is personalized patient education that improves patients' understanding of heart failure and empowers them to better self manage their illness. Daily monitoring allows for real-time education at the point when patients need it most and reinforces the connection between behavior, symptoms and hospitalizations.

Physicians with patients on our program have found an increase in patient adherence to treatment plans; overall improved patient awareness of their illness; and a reduction in avoidable hospitalizations.

Patients surveyed after 3 months on the Alere® Home Monitoring Program have reported a significant reduction in impairment and improved quality of life.

Physician comments:

"We would like to continue with this program. It has been very beneficial to our patients and our decreasing hospitalizations." Allen Horesh, MD, Bellevue, Washington

"The program helps to keep in touch with patients about their compliance with medication." Asikadu Viswanathan, MD, Bronx, NY

"The fact that patients become more involved in their own care has been very good. The alerts have been very helpful." Joseph Frawley, MD, Santa Barbara, California

"Up weight and symptoms are good feedback I can use." Phillip O'Donnell, MD, Winchester, Virginia