Truven Health Analytics to Integrate Medication Essential Fact Sheets with Allen Technologies E3 Patient Engagement Solutions

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Truven Health Analytics, an IBM Company, has partnered with Allen Technologies, the leader in interactive patient engagement solutions for nearly 40 years, to integrate Truven Health's Medication Essential Fact Sheets into Allen's E3 Patient Engagement Solutions. The industry-first integration gives patients access to essential information about the medications they are prescribed, in a consumer-friendly format accessible directly through the Allen system on their patient room TV, tablet or touchscreen monitor.

The Truven Health Medication Essential Fact Sheet enables patients to become more engaged participants in their care by providing information on their prescription drugs. By integrating these easy to understand fact sheets into Allen's E3 Patient Engagement Solutions, patients and their caregivers can receive access to prescription medication education that improves patient literacy, enhances the patient experience, and optimizes operational efficiency.

Partnering with Truven Health, Allen Technologies' interactive solution will provide hospitals with consistent, concise, easy-to-read medication information for 300 of the most common medications prescribed to hospital patients. Each sheet includes facts on the medication and its potential side effects in an easy to understand format.

"Hospitals continue to seek out innovative ways to use technology to improve patient literacy, and meet Meaningful Use requirements that drive patient outcomes and help clinicians work more efficiently," said Allen Technologies Clinical Advisor Gretchen Palmer, RN. "Our partnership with Truven Health to deliver medication education through our interactive system is yet another way we are helping hospitals and clinical teams achieve those goals."

"As hospitals transition to value-based care, having an educated patient population is more important than ever," said Kathy VanEnkevort, senior vice president, client solutions, at Truven Health Analytics. "By encouraging patients and caregivers to be more engaged with treatment methods, we're moving toward a healthcare landscape with lower hospital readmissions and improved outcomes across the entire care continuum. We believe partnering with Allen Technologies to bring Medication Essential Fact Sheets to the E3 platform is a big step in the right direction."

The Medication Essential Fact Sheets are part of the Micromedex® Patient Connect Suite, a powerful combination of patient education and consumer engagement resources that includes the following solutions: Micromedex Patient Education, featuring CareNotes; Micromedex Consumer Health Education, featuring SmartEngage™; and Micromedex Pediatric Video Education, featuring Health Nuts Media. The Medication Essential Fact Sheets are designed to reduce readmissions and increase patient satisfaction, ultimately helping to boost medication-related Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores.

For more information on the Micromedex Patient Connect Suite, visit micromedex.com/patient-connect.

About Allen Technologies

Allen Technologies, the pioneer of interactive patient engagement solutions for nearly 40 years, transforms the way hospitals engage, educate and empower patients. Allen helps hospitals impact patient outcomes, improve patient satisfaction and achieve operational efficiencies. Allen's multiplatform interactive patient engagement system, delivered via television, tablet and bedside monitor, is a robust patient-centric portal for customized patient education, in- room comfort control, and entertainment. Allen's E3 Patient Engagement Solutions integrate seamlessly with electronic medical records and system platforms including HVAC, housekeeping and food service systems. Learn more at www.engagewithallen.com, at facebook.com/allentechnologies or on Twitter at @allen_E3.

About Truven Health Analytics

Truven Health Analytics, an IBM Company, delivers the answers that clients need to improve healthcare quality and access while reducing costs. We provide market-leading performance improvement solutions built on data integrity, advanced analytics, and domain expertise. For more than 40 years, our insights and solutions have been providing hospitals and clinicians, employers and health plans, state and federal government agencies, life sciences companies, and policymakers the facts they need to make confident decisions that directly affect the health and well-being of people and organizations in the U.S. and around the world.

Truven Health Analytics owns some of the most trusted brands in healthcare, such as MarketScan^®, 100 Top Hospitals^®, Advantage Suite^®, Micromedex^®, Simpler^®, ActionOI^® and JWA. Truven Health has its principal offices in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Chicago; and Denver. For more information, visit truvenhealth.com

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