Reliq Health Technologies, Inc. Announces New Contract with digiiMED to Provide its iUGO Care Platform to Patients in Puerto ...
July 15 2020 - 5:00AM
Reliq Health Technologies Inc. (TSXV:RHT or
OTCQB:RQHTF) (“
Reliq” or the
“
Company”), a technology company focused on
developing innovative mobile health (mHealth) and telemedicine
solutions for Community-Based Healthcare, today announced that it
has signed a contract with digiiMED, LLC to provide Reliq’s iUGO
Care Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), Chronic Care Management
(CCM), Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) and Principal Care
Management (PCM) platform to digiiMED’s Medicare and private
insurance patients in Puerto Rico.
“We are very excited to be expanding our
business into Puerto Rico, a US territory with a population of over
3 million people,” said Dr. Lisa Crossley, CEO of Reliq Health
Technologies, Inc. “Half of all adults in Puerto Rico have at
least one chronic condition, over 42% percent of the population
have hypertension and over 16% suffer from diabetes. In the
midst of a global pandemic that is overwhelming healthcare systems
in States like Texas, Florida and Georgia, it is vital that areas
like Puerto Rico protect their high risk chronic disease
populations through virtual care programs like iUGO Care’s RPM,
CCM, BHI and PCM. Keeping chronic disease patients healthy
and at home reduces the risk of exposure to the virus for this
vulnerable group, limiting the spread of the virus in the total
population and helping to keep the healthcare system functioning
for all of the citizens of Puerto Rico. Many communities in Puerto
Rico face infrastructure challenges similar to those we address
with our remote and rural clients in Canada and the US, such as
lack of conventional internet connections and limited access to
in-home care, so Reliq is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of
this market. digiiMED is a leading healthcare solution
provider in Puerto Rico with a proven understanding of the local
market and an extensive network of care providers and patients on
the island. We look forward to working with the digiiMED team
to improve access to care and health outcomes for their clients’
chronic disease patients.”
“At digiiMED, our goal is to bring improvements
to the health and well being of the people of Puerto Rico,” said
Jose Alvarez, CEO of digiiMED and Surgical Solutions Puerto
Rico. “Through our existing contracts with healthcare
providers on the island we have access to over 200,000 chronic
disease patients who will benefit greatly from Reliq’s iUGO Care
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), Chronic Care Management (CCM),
Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) and Principal Care Management
(PCM) solutions. We selected Reliq as our technology partner
and iUGO Care as the software platform for our clients after an
extensive review of all commercially available digital health
solutions. Reliq’s iUGO Care platform has the most
comprehensive capabilities of any virtual care software solution,
but is also intuitive and easy to use for both clinicians and
patients. Reliq’s highly qualified, experienced clinical team
was able to help us develop a customized Care Management program
that will meet the specific needs of our client populations. Having
access to Reliq’s existing Spanish-speaking Care Management and
Implementation teams in Texas and Florida will enable digiiMED to
onboard physicians and patients immediately while we expand our own
customer support team in Puerto Rico.”
About digiiMEDdigiiMED is a
spin-off of Surgical Solutions Puerto Rico. digiiMED provides
innovative digital health solutions to care providers in Puerto
Rico and Latin America. Surgical Solutions has been working
with primary care physicians, neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons
and other healthcare professionals in Puerto Rico and Latin America
since 2003. The company has experienced double digit growth
year over year for the past ten years and has over 25% market share
in Puerto Rico in the Spine, Trauma, Thoracic, CMF, Intra Operative
Neuro Monitoring and Orthopaedic Surgeries Market. Learn more
at https://ss-pr.com.
About Reliq HealthReliq Health
Technologies is a healthcare technology company that specializes in
developing innovative software solutions for the Community Care
market. Reliq’s powerful iUGO Care platform supports care
coordination and community-based 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 and on
the OTCQB as RQHTF.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD“Dr. Lisa Crossley”CEO and Director
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