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Alere Launches Comprehensive Coaching Solution To Help Employers Battle the Causes of Rising Healthcare CostsATLANTA --(Business Wire)-- Alere Health today announced the rollout of the new Alere™ Coaching Solution, a comprehensive behavior change program that helps employers address key lifestyle behaviors that drive healthcare costs. Integrating Alere Health's evidence-based wellness and health coaching offerings, the Alere Coaching Solution empowers employees to improve their health with proven approaches to addressing smoking, obesity, poor nutrition, low physical activity and stress. "Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors are responsible for more than $300 billion in wasted healthcare spending and result in twice the healthcare costs of a healthy individual," says Alere Health CEO Craig Keyes, MD. "We designed the Alere Coaching Solution for employers as a population health management approach to helping employees at all risk levels address key behaviors that lead to or escalate high-cost chronic conditions." The Alere Coaching Solution gives employees access to skilled behavior change coaches in a set of programs that address their personal situations:
In addition to program affiliations with the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association and NCQA, the Alere Coaching Solution incorporates curriculum-based approaches modeled after the Diabetes Prevention Program, the National Weight Control Registry and the U.S. Preventive World Health Guidelines on tobacco cessation. A leader in behavior change science, Alere has published 155 studies and participated in 40 clinical trials in the areas of tobacco use and obesity. Employers and health plan administrators interested in additional Alere Coaching Solution information can visit www.alerewellbeing.com. About Alere Health Alere Health is part of the health information solutions business of Alere Inc., a global leader in diagnostic products and services for infectious disease, cardiometabolic disease and toxicology. Alere is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. For more information regarding Alere, please visit www.alere.com. The Alere Logo, Alere, Quit for Life and Weight Talk are trademarks of the Alere group of companies. All other trademarks referenced are trademarks of their respective owners.
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