BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Sep 22, 2009 -- Hooper Holmes (NYSE Amex:HH) today announced that the President of its Health and Wellness Division, Christopher J. Behling, has been elected to the Board of the DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance.
The DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance (www.dmaa.org) is an organization based on promoting the role of population health improvement in raising the quality of care, improving health outcomes and reducing preventable health care costs for individuals with chronic conditions and those at risk of developing chronic conditions. It represents more than 200 corporate and individual stakeholders--including wellness, disease and care management organizations, pharmaceutical manufacturers and benefits managers, health information technology innovators, biotechnology innovators, employers, physicians, nurses and other health care professionals, and researchers and academicians.
In addition to Mr. Behling's appointment to the Board, Hooper Holmes Health & Wellness has issued a white paper titled "Screenings are Not a Product (and Health Fairs Don't Work!)" and will be an exhibitor at the DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance's annual meeting, which is currently going on in San Diego, California.
Chris Behling commented: "I am honored to be elected to the board of the DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance. I look forward to helping the association continue its transition to total population health management and expanding its focus to include providers, HIT organizations and other stake holders along the continuum of care."
About Hooper Holmes Health & Wellness
Hooper Holmes' Health and Wellness Division leverages Hooper Holmes' unique set of assets to provide a complete biometric screening service for Health & Care Management companies. Health & Wellness provides scheduling support, fulfillment of supplies, blood collection kits, medical screenings, lab testing and data transmission. By leveraging a network of over 9,000 examiners and a wholly owned reference lab with medical device manufacturing and robust fulfillment capabilities, the Division helps its customers engage more participants, gather more participant data earlier in the health management process, better target interventional health support services.
About Hooper Holmes
Hooper Holmes is a leader in collecting personal health data and transforming it into useful information, enabling customers to take actions that manage or reduce their risks and expenses. As a leading provider of risk assessment services for the insurance industry, Hooper Holmes provides insurers with the widest range of medical exam, data collection, laboratory testing and underwriting services in the industry.
With presence in over 250 markets and a network of thousands of examiners, Hooper Holmes can arrange a medical exam anywhere in the U.S. and deliver the results to its customers. Each year we arrange more medical exams than any other company and process more than three million specimens in our laboratory. We provide a complete service for wellness, disease management, and managed care companies including scheduling support, fulfillment of supplies, blood collection kits, medical screenings, lab testing and data transmission. We underwrite hundreds of thousands of cases annually and complete more than two million telephone interviews.