Thursday, June 30, 2016
Today, HealthMine, Inc. announced that it has expanded its Advisory Board with two new members, Donald R. Fischer, MD, MBA and Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS. The HealthMine Advisory Board helps guide HealthMine as the company brings individual and population wellness into the digital era with its Personal Clinical Engagement solution.
Bryce Williams, President and CEO of HealthMine said: "The addition of Dr. Fischer and Dr. Patel to HealthMine's advisory board strengthens the clinical depth and knowledge of our company. Both are seasoned clinicians, with impeccable backgrounds. They have already been instrumental in HealthMine's transformation of the wellness industry from using simple lifestyle management checklists to recommending personalized health actions based on rigorous analysis of clinical data. The next generation of wellness will fully unlock the power of personal health data to improve healthcare outcomes and lower healthcare costs one person at a time."
Donald R. Fischer, MD, MBA — Dr. Fischer is an independent health care consultant who was the Senior Vice President of Health Affairs and Chief Medical Officer at the health insurance carrier Highmark, Inc. from 2004 through 2015. Among his responsibilities were clinical strategy, medical management and policy, care management services, utilization management, quality management and preventive health services. Dr. Fischer practiced pediatric cardiology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh for many years, and served as the Medical Director of the Children's Hospital from 1996-2000.
Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS— Dr. Patel is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management at the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Primary Care Physician at the Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia and is on the faculty at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation and the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. His research focuses on studying innovative ways to change health behaviors and improve health outcomes by combining connected health approaches that collect patient-generated health data with engagement strategies that leverage insights from behavioral economics. Dr. Patel is also the Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, an initiative within the health care system to systematically test ways to apply insights from behavioral science to choice environments to improve healthcare value and outcomes.
About HealthMine
HealthMine brings wellness into the digital era for plan sponsors and their members. The HealthMine Personal Clinical Engagement solution automatically collects and analyzes clinical and lifestyle data from multiple sources to create a health profile for each member. Serving as an early warning system, our solution identifies health risks and chronic conditions and automatically triggers alerts. The HealthMine solution delivers health recommendations to members' smartphones in near-real time so they can take action immediately. With HealthMine, plan sponsors can engage and sustain all members in personalized health and disease management activities. HealthMine has more than 1 million users and has saved health plan sponsors more than $100 million in healthcare costs. HealthMine is on the web at www.healthmine.com.
Source : prnewswire.com
