Feb 10 2010
Pfizer and Keas announced today they have entered into an alliance to collaborate on the Keas platform to enable Health and Wellness experts to author, sell and distribute personalized online Care Plans directly to patients. Pfizer and Keas will collaborate to develop care plans and related capabilities that seek to provide consumers, patients and their providers an intuitive, engaging, easy-to-use, and low-cost way to manage their health & wellness, prevention and care delivery.
“Our partnership with Keas demonstrates Pfizer’s commitment to invest in innovative and game changing solutions that empower patients and physicians to further engage in the patient’s health”
An asset for both consumers and their physicians, Keas allows users to understand and take charge of their health information by using Care Plans that meet their personal health needs and help extend the reach of their own physicians and health care providers. The Care Plans are authored by leaders in the healthcare industry including doctors, pharmacists, and nutritionists. Among the health experts who have published Care Plans on Keas include Dr. Greene Pediatrics, DiabetesMine, HealthWise, and CVS MinuteClinic.
“Our partnership with Keas demonstrates Pfizer’s commitment to invest in innovative and game changing solutions that empower patients and physicians to further engage in the patient’s health,” said Kristin Peck, SVP of Worldwide Strategy & Innovation. “This is a further testimony of Pfizer’s commitment to remain the partner of choice for entrepreneurs and innovators. It is about harnessing the power of the best innovators across the world through new partnerships and novel ecosystems to create a healthier world.”
Keas offers a fun, personalized “dashboard” to users giving them the opportunity to keep track of their own health goals and empower them to make decisions about self-care as well as medical care. Keas Founder and CEO Adam Bosworth explains, “Keas helps people take charge of their health, giving them the tools and knowledge required to live a healthy life and tackle such challenges as weight loss, smoking cessation, diabetes prevention or control, heart disease, pediatric issues and even reminders for taking prescriptions or getting lab work done.”
“The Pfizer relationship with Keas enables us to partner with health care professionals to extend care management outside the office,” said Olivier Brandicourt, President and General Manager of Pfizer’s Primary Care Business Unit. “By combining the recommendation of an individual’s physician with a personalized, expert-developed Care Plan to support day-to-day health decisions, we believe patients will potentially experience improved health outcomes.”
Patients using the interactive platform also will be able to share their Care Plan with a designated provider, following the progress of the patient with the Plan to provide collaborative care. Patients can enroll directly into Care plans or by recommendation of their physician.
SOURCE Pfizer Inc.
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