What’s in a name?
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
What do you get when you combine cell phones, text messaging, mobile browsers, glucose meters, educational content, patient profiles, personalized predictive blood sugar models, hypoglycemia prevention training for insulin pump users, various algorithms for determining right time, right place, appropriate feedback, diabetes educator consults over web cam, office based visits for initiating insulin pump therapy, training patients on multiple daily injection therapy, nutrition education and carb counting?
Now add general health and wellness programs to the mix. And just for fun lets also add home diagnostic test screening for early assessment of risk for heart disease and the most advanced asthma management program ever currently being developed in partnership with one of the largest children’s hospitals in the country.
Can you still call the company who does this Diabetech? Obviously not. That’s my reason for this post - simply that Diabetech is in the process of launching its commercially available programs as “healthimo™ ” - a mobile health community network provider.
The Diabetech name will continue to be synonymous with innovative diabetes technology research while healthimo represents the culmination of 9 years of learning how to change behaviors using an elegant mixture of unobtrusive technology and social networking as a proven model for accomplishment of telehealth objectives. We already have several thousand healthimo members using our services at no cost - FREE. If you’re interested to learn how your community can tap into healthimo, drop me a line at guide @ healthimo-dot com.
