GenerationOne to Launch Nation's First Mobile Collaborative Care Solution

GenerationOne is set to launch the nation’s first mobile collaborative care solution.

The company’s collaborative care solution utilizes mobile phones to connect patients, physicians and other care providers. 

By delivering interactive monitoring, real-time care alerts and useful medical information, GenerationOne gives individuals the tools they need to make informed decisions about their health and reduce emergency care.

The device offers reminders and alerts for taking medications and monitoring blood sugar levels, blood pressure and more, eliminating the guesswork of whether symptoms require a trip to the doctor’s office or the emergency room. 

In addition, it also helps individuals properly manage chronic conditions and encourages behavioral changes necessary for making healthier lifestyle choices. 

To ensure nationwide delivery of its integrated mobile collaborative care solutions, GenerationOne recently acquired FireFly Mobile, a provider of mobile phones and services for kids and teens. 

FireFly will retain its name and will continue to provide mobile phone service as a subsidiary of GenerationOne. 

"When it comes to medical connectedness, we are still in the Dark Ages," said Jeffrey Wolf, CEO, GenerationOne. 

"GenerationOne is pushing the boundaries of healthcare as we know it by integrating cellular phones and other mobile devices into collaborative care. The end result is that consumers, doctors and insurers all win,” added Wolf.

Despite skyrocketing costs of caring for chronic illnesses, patients have traditionally been expected to monitor their health and alter their behaviors with little or no ongoing support. 

Patients must determine when and how to seek care and many wait until their conditions require emergency intervention – further burdening an overtaxed medical infrastructure. 

"GenerationOne changes that paradigm by utilizing the mobile phones and other wireless devices that have become ubiquitous in society to establish a direct link between patients and providers," said Paul Belsky, M.D., chief medical officer, GenerationOne. 
 

"The mobile solutions from GenerationOne improve medication compliance and adherence to recommended behaviors, lowering costs by reducing complications that result in hospitalizations and emergency room visits. Most importantly, they help improve the patient’s quality of life,” stated Belsky.

GenerationOne leverages advanced mobile technologies and clinical decision support to deliver the nation’s first fully integrated solution for mobile collaborative care. The company’s proprietary wireless health management system is a flexible suite of components, including GenerationOne’s proprietary device, software, a Web-based control center and notification, voice and data services, that can be customized to create a variety of target-specific services to monitor a wide range of disease and wellness conditions. 

Central to GenerationOne solutions is a powerful bi-directional information management system that provides timely instruction and two-way feedback.