Verilogue Announces Formation of CareCoach Healthcare Advisory Board

HORSHAM, Pa., Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Verilogue, a company dedicated to improving healthcare communications, today announced the formation of a new healthcare advisory board to guide CareCoach, the company's unique service that focuses on improving the healthcare dialogue between patients, caregivers and their physicians. Kent Bottles, M.D., Sherrie H. Kaplan, Ph.D., M.P.H., Shiao-Yu Lee, M.D. and David B. Nash, M.D., M.B.A. will serve on the healthcare advisory board to further CareCoach's mission of enhancing communication between patients, caregivers and healthcare providers and improving healthcare outcomes by measuring and supporting shared decision-making.

CareCoach provides consumers with information, support and tools to improve patient confidence, shared decision-making and care coordination. Offering a suite of online and mobile coaching tools, CareCoach allows consumers to listen and learn from real exam room conversations shared by patients like them; prepare for and actively participate in upcoming doctor visits; record doctor visits, using digital or mobile recording devices and review and share visit recordings and transcripts with selected individuals through CareCoach's secure website.

"We are thrilled to announce the appointment of this dynamic group of nationally recognized advisors who are passionate about improving care outcomes and recognize the importance of the physician-patient relationship," said Jeff Kozloff, chief executive officer of Verilogue. "I am tremendously excited to welcome each of these esteemed physicians and scientists to the CareCoach team."

About the Healthcare Advisory Board Members

Dr. Bottles recently joined Verilogue as the chief medical officer for CareCoach. He is a lecturer at the Jefferson School of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University, teaching an online class this semester in healthcare organization and delivery. Dr. Bottles is a keynote speaker with vast knowledge of healthcare systems, technology, change through conflict, and the future of healthcare. His work has focused on healthcare leadership, the future of American healthcare and lessons from the healthcare trenches.

Dr. Kaplan is a professor of medicine at UC Irvine, where she also serves as the assistant vice chancellor for healthcare measurement and evaluation and the executive co-director of the health policy research institute. In her distinguished career, Dr. Kaplan has pioneered a number of areas, including research demonstrating that patients can be taught to participate effectively in medical decisions with positive effects on health outcomes.

Dr. Lee is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist who conducts an independent practice in Brookline, Massachusetts and is also an assistant clinical professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lee has vast clinical experience in women's health and numerous consultations for gynecological surgery.

Dr. Nash is the founding dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health, where he also serves as the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon professor of health policy. He is a board-certified internist, internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement.

About CareCoach.com

CareCoach.com is a new consumer-focused initiative that leverages Verilogue's deep communication expertise and provides patients and caregivers with information, support and tools to improve their healthcare experience. CareCoach.com improves the dialogue between patients, caregivers and their physicians by providing consumers with a suite of online and mobile coaching tools that enhance patient confidence, shared decision-making and care coordination. The service provides consumers with the opportunity to listen and learn from real exam room conversations shared by patients like them; prepare for and actively participate in upcoming doctor visits; record doctors' visits, using digital or mobile recording devices; and share visit recordings and transcripts with selected individuals (such as caregivers and family members) through the secure website. For more information, please visit www.carecoach.com.

About Verilogue
Verilogue (www.verilogue.com) is the first health care communications company to capture a global database of patient-physician interactions and deliver insights through advanced linguistic analyses. The company's Point-of-Practice™ database and technology system digitally records real-time conversations between patients and physicians allowing Verilogue to capture critical information at the point of care, while maintaining patient and physician confidentiality. Conversations are analyzed by Verilogue's team of linguists, statisticians and marketing experts, who are able to draw out unique insights enabling the end user to gain a deeper understanding of patient and physician perspectives. More than 40 pharmaceutical companies have partnered with Verilogue to gain actionable insights from its database containing more than 60,000 unique patient-physician conversations and corresponding patient charts across more than 70 therapeutic categories. In 2011 the company leveraged this expertise by launching CareCoach.com, an important tool that aims to improve dialogue between patients, caregivers and their physicians.

Founded in 2006, Verilogue is a privately held company headquartered in Horsham, PA. For more information, please visit www.verilogue.com.

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