HAMILTON, Ontario, March 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reliq Health Technologies Inc. (TSXV:RHT or OTC:RQHTF or WKN:A2AJTB) (“Reliq” or the “Company”), a rapidly growing global healthcare technology company that develops innovative Virtual Care solutions for the multi-billion dollar Healthcare market, today announced that it has signed an agreement with a US Contract Research Organization to use its iUGO Care software and Patient Engagement services to support their oncology clinical trials.
“We are very excited to be moving into the clinical trials space,” said Dr. Lisa Crossley, CEO at Reliq Health Technologies, Inc. “The oncology clinical trial market alone is value at over $10 billion USD and is growing at over 5% per year. Using our iUGO Care platform and Patient Engagement services, Contract Research Organizations (CROs) can monitor trial-specific metrics such as medication adherence, side effects/safety and efficacy, and can also monitor existing comorbidities that must be tightly controlled during clinical trials such as hypertension, diabetes and other chronic conditions. We are very pleased to be working with our new client, a highly respected and experienced CRO that in the last year alone conducted over 1,000 clinical trials involving over 200,000 physicians and more than 600 clinical sites. We will be utilizing a combination of our proprietary solutions for the clinical trials, including iUGO Care, iUGO Home, iUGO Voice and the MiUGO patient portal. This contract is expected to generate recurring revenue of approximately $40 per patient per month. The Company expects to onboard over 3,000 clinical trials patients in 2022 through this contract.”
Reliq Health
Reliq Health Technologies is a rapidly growing global healthcare technology company that specializes in developing innovative Virtual Care solutions for the multi-billion dollar Healthcare market. Reliq’s powerful iUGO Care platform supports care coordination and community-based virtual healthcare. iUGO Care allows complex patients to receive high quality care at home, improving health outcomes, enhancing quality of life for patients and families and reducing the cost of care delivery. iUGO Care provides real-time access to remote patient monitoring data, allowing for timely interventions by the care team to prevent costly hospital readmissions and ER visits. Reliq Health Technologies trades on the TSX Venture under the symbol RHT, on the OTC as RQHTF and on the WKN as A2AJTB.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Dr. Lisa Crossley”
CEO and Director
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