INTAcare International Limited is a UK-based medical technologies company with international experience in the clinical management of chronic disease.

At INTAcare, we recognise that modern therapies have increased the level of survivorship but, as a result, there has also been an increase in the level of long-term side-effects presented by patients. This has ultimately resulted in an increase in patient dependency upon healthcare services - an issue exacerbated further by a growing population of individuals who are presenting with multiple diseases synchronously.¹ We also recognise that the healthcare industry is subject to enormous variation in both service provision and clinical processes, even between sites in the same organisation. Recent statistics have shown that these variations and the ensuing chronic over, under or even misuse of services is costing healthcare providers up to 30% of their annual budgets.²

To combat these issues INTAcare, together with our university and health technology partners, developed a unique and cost-effective solution that enables your organisation to achieve its core financial goals whilst ensuring the fundamental goal of providing clinical excellence is also achieved.

Our solution involves:

• Advanced management of disease risk populations
We support our Health Screening and Private Health Insurance Partners by providing a network of ‘centres of clinical excellence’, all of which utilise Intacare’s advanced technologies. These centres are dedicated to providing better, more cost-effective disease and disease risk management for your customers by reducing disease diagnosis, costly clinical process variance and long-term healthcare service reliance by your customers.

• Advanced management of populations with disease
All of our ‘centres of clinical excellence’ utilise our unique Standardised Assessment and Monitoring of Symptoms (SAMS) software tool. This tool ensures network-wide uniformity of patient symptom assessment, enables immediate trend analysis, and promotes better multidisciplinary team engagement and ultimately, a greater patient focus.

• Promoting cost-effective decision making
Our SAMS tool also links with our University verified QALY index tool to better enable practitioners to assess the economic consequence of their patient care practices and to promote cost-effective patient care decision making

• Improving networking and cost performance
Our technologies can provide network-wide patient data transfer and data management. Our technologies enable significant administrative task time saving through automated report generation and transfer and seamless data-transfer and audit. Our technologies help you reduce costly patient clinical flow ‘bottle-necking’ to improve both clinic throughput and clinical systems efficiency.

• Enabling life-long management of your customers' health
Our technologies provide a resource-rich, web-based patient self-assessment platform that is accessible on any PC via log-in. By enabling practitioners to ‘virtually’ monitor their patients beyond the clinical environment, this platform promotes patient self-responsibility; helps reduce acute conditions becoming chronic and reduces long-term healthcare service uptake and reliance. This tool also enables our Health Screening, Clinical Facility and PMI Partners to maintain a life-long relationship with their customers.

To learn more about how INTAcare can help your organisation achieve its financial goals, please contact an 'The Intacare New Business Team'.

1. Card et al (2007): NBER Working paper series - Does Medicare save lives? Working paper 13668. National Bureau of Economic Research http://www.nber.org/papers/w13668
2. Fisher E.S., Wennberg D.E., Stukel T.A., et al. The implications of regional variations in Medicare spending. Part 1. Ann Intern Med. 2003; 138: 273-287