Russ Gagnon, Chief Product Officer
According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Institutes of Health, 1.3 million people in the US visit emergency departments with essential hypertension as the primary diagnosis each year and over 38 million Americans live with diabetes. Blood pressure and blood sugar monitoring are two of the most important factors to monitor in helping people adhere to daily care plans at home and reduce long-term disease progression and complications.
Wellth’s proven outcomes in helping people build and sustain healthy behaviors have delivered measurable improvements to care plan adherence for tens of thousands of people across multiple health plans. Building on this momentum, we recently launched a fully-integrated, in-app suite of predictive health features to further help control key drivers of chronic conditions for individuals using Wellth through their health plan or provider. The first of these will provide personalized alerts and guidance when a member’s daily blood pressure and blood sugar check-ins trend above their target ranges.
Predicting better health outcomes through daily at home monitoring
Wellth users can quickly and easily control their blood pressure and other key measures like blood sugar in a way that doesn’t require strong tech literacy, expensive new hardware, or pairing a new Bluetooth device. This easy-to-use approach will improve visibility into Wellth users’ health and strengthen communication with care providers and plans to achieve better health, cost, and quality outcomes.
How it works
Members can set target ranges in partnership with providers in the Wellth app interface. Each of the member’s subsequent check-ins for blood pressure is then run through an AI-driven model, turning a simple picture taken by the member into actual systolic and diastolic readings and – for members whose check-in trend is outside of their target range – prompting in-app alerts to take extra caution or connect with their care providers.
Committed to members
Shortly, Wellth will also release a similar AI powered blood sugar management feature as part of the predictive health suite along with enhanced pill detection feature to aid in medication adherence. We’re thankful to our tens of thousands of Wellth members who have checked in daily over 25 million times to help us deliver previously unreachable outcomes including:
Learn more about leveraging predictive daily monitoring at scale for patients and health plan members by contacting our team here.
