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Longitude Health Strengthens Innovative Health and Wellness Portal With Protocol Driven Healthcare's ConXus Platform
Proven Open-Systems Approach Jumpstarts MyHealthVillage.com With Market Tested Capabilities
| Source: Longitude Health
SOMERSET, NJ--(Marketwire - September 4, 2008) - Longitude Health, Inc.
(www.longitudehealth.com), provider of web-based, guided health and
wellness solutions for mid-size, self-insured companies, today announced
that its MyHealthVillage.com web portal will be enhanced with the robust
and proven ConXus health improvement platform from Protocol Driven
Healthcare, Inc. (PDHI). The ConXus platform will help expedite
time-to-market deployment of Longitude Health's web portal
MyHealthVillage.com, using proven, industry-validated health and wellness
tools.
Using ConXus, MyHealthVillage.com HealthGuides and users will have easy,
online access to subscribers' data, as well as the tools for tracking
progress and for the delivery of personalized education. The
database-driven platform will support rapid site development and
configuration to meet the needs of Longitude's diverse clients. Services
available include health risk assessments, wellness programs, challenges,
personal health records, a secure messaging center and a fully integrated
incentive management system.
Tracy Korman, Longitude Health's Co-founder, president and CEO, explains
the importance of PDHI's capabilities to Longitude Health: "With its proven
track record of service delivery, best-of-breed technology and a health
risk assessment that has been validated with over one million lives, the
PDHI ConXus Platform has allowed us to rapidly build our differentiated
Whole Person / Whole Population services. ConXus offers us a flexible
workflow environment to deliver our proprietary approaches to reducing
health risks, controlling healthcare expenses and improving the health and
wellbeing of our clients' employees."
"PDHI is delighted that Longitude Health is using the ConXus Platform which
was specifically developed to support the delivery of health improvement
programs to multiple end clients," says Jennifer Jolley, PDHI's president.
"Longitude Health will be able to localize programs and services for each
of their clients to specifically meet their specific needs and drive
program participation and engagement."
About Longitude Health, Inc.
Based in New Jersey and with operations in Missouri, Longitude Health
(www.longitudehealth.com) is a privately-held, investor-backed company
offering comprehensive web-based, guided health and productivity
improvement solutions for mid-size, self-insured businesses. Its flexible
tools and holistic approaches provide incentives, integrate with primary
care physician oversight and enable social networking support for a
completely collaborative solution leading to sustainable, long-term,
healthy life style habits. Longitude Health's MyHealthVillage.com portal
and HealthGuides provide businesses with a highly-valued employee benefit
while at the same time improving productivity and reducing health related
costs. For further information on Longitude Health visit
www.longitudehealth.com.
About Protocol Driven Healthcare, Inc.
PDHI is a healthcare technology and data processing organization that
provides preventive health applications and services using the ConXus®
health improvement platform. ConXus solutions are scalable and flexible,
driving process efficiency and project control for clients. PDHI has
adopted an open-systems approach, including extensive administrative tools
and interfaces that allow integration of ConXus solutions into client
portal environments. For more information, visit www.pdhi.com.