Patient Engagement Systems, formerly Vermedx® Inc., is a decision-support healthcare information technology company currently focused on the diabetes market. The company provides a patent-pending chronic disease treatment decision support platform delivering its solution to customers via software-as-a-service, as well as via email, fax and postal mail. Vermedx’s initial customers include: Vermont Managed Care and Fletcher Allen, as well as the cities of San Antonio, TX and New York, NY.
University of Vermont professors Ben Littenberg, MD and Charles MacLean, MD, partnered with Michael Gagnon, a senior technology infrastructure and information security executive, to found Vermedx® in 2006. David L. Potter joined the team full time during Q4 2008 as the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Potter’s experience includes his roles as co-founder of Pro-Change Behavior Systems Inc. and Chief Operating Officer of Previser Health Solutions Inc.
More than 20 million US adults suffer from diabetes, and another 20 million are pre-diabetic. Patient Engagement Systems provides critical information automatically and as needed to enable doctors, patients, and provider organizations to significantly improve the health of large populations of diabetic patients, thereby dramatically driving down treatment related costs. Existing customers have chosen Vermedx® based on its unique, clinically proven ability to deliver annualized net per patient savings exceeding $2,400 while improving treatment quality. The validation of this extraordinary financial value proposition for payers and providers was published in The American Journal of Managed Care in March 2009.
A recently completed analysis in a commercial Managed Care setting affirmed similar cost savings, coupled with dramatic organization-wide treatment quality improvements, resulting in net cumulative per patient savings exceeding $8,000 over four years. Vermedx® holds an exclusive worldwide license to commercialize this patent-pending technology developed at the University of Vermont.
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Patient Engagement Systems-The Next Frontier for Improving Healthcare
Patient Engagement Systems Awarded Bronze Honors by URAC
Patient Engagement Systems Presents at Fourth National Medical Home Summit
American Journal of Managed Care - Vermedx Reduces Healthcare Utilization
Mass High Tech - Diabetes-Focused IT Firm Vermedx Lands $500K
ZD Net - Vermedx Diabetes System Wins Texas Trial
