The clinical outcomes translate into significant savings. In an independent review by Validation Institute's population health scientists of a matched control study, they verified a cost savings of $1,865 per Hello Heart participant in the first year, or 19% of total medical claims spending. The substantial cost savings is largely the result of enabling participants to focus on positive lifestyle changes, medication adherence, and preventative care, while avoiding expensive surgeries, imaging, and ER visits, and having shorter hospitalizations.

Interventions that focus on prevention and management can help catch serious risk in time by providing early detection of hypertensive crises and irregular heartbeats, and allow people to potentially avoid the complications of advanced heart disease, invasive procedures, and surgeries,
Patients get practical and jargon-free education to understand their condition, which promotes lifestyle change and enhances self-care. P atients are better able to understand what they actually mean — and feel empowered instead of intimidated.
The "shame barrier" is eliminated. Patients interact with AI-driven digital coaching through their smartphone instead of having to go into a doctor's office.

Changing the game

High spending in the U.S. health care system from over-treatment and lack of prevention is enormous and growing. If you had the chance to avoid the bright white hallways of a hospital and the physical, emotional, and financial cost of a cardiac procedure, wouldn't you? It's time for a fresh new solution that responsibly reduces health care costs by minimizing unnecessary and avoidable procedures to significantly reduce claims costs, while improving health outcomes for patients — potentially saving their lives. This solution is digital care, and it's changing the game.

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How digital care can help prevent costly, invasive and unnecessary procedures

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