Results from a small pilot study of 10 patients indicate positive
outcomes from use of the intervention. All participants avoided hospitalization
during the three month study period and all reported increased confidence in
managing their disease state. Additional studies are currently in place to
further evaluate coactionHealth with larger groups of patients.
Monday, October 6, 2014
A Mobile Intervention for High-Cost Medicaid Patients
The telecommunications company Verizon has teamed up with a
technology start up called Ginger.io to develop and test a mobile health
monitoring intervention. The intervention,
coactionHealth, is designed to aide high-utilizer Medicaid beneficiaries whose
care is particularly difficult due to co-occurring mental and physical
disorders. These patients may experience mental conditions such as schizophrenia
or bipolar disorder in addition physical conditions like heart disease, chronic
obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) or diabetes. The smartphone based intervention included various
health tracking applications and an on-call support team including a nurse, therapist
and wellness coach. Users are asked
daily survey questions about their wellbeing and certain answers alert members
of the support team to possible depressive symptoms or suicidal thoughts.
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