Couplers
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Couplers:
Matching patient information with an extensive medical database to provide guidance tailored to individuals.
Couplers are software tools that help both healthcare professionals and consumers make well-informed medical decisions.
What Are Couplers?
Each Coupler leads users through a series of questions about themselves, their health, and their medical history. Healthcare professionals can add physical exam and lab results to the mix. The software "couples" this patient data with a database of relevant medical information drawn from the latest literature to produce patient-specific advice, including potential causes, treatments, and management strategies.
Coupler users also walk away with:
- A thorough description of their medical problem.
- A complete list of their medications, lifestyle choices, problems, concerns, and questions relating to their problem.
- A personalized, provider-strength roadmap for resolving their medical problem.
Couplers do not simply spit out generic medical encyclopedia articles. They match patient information with the latest medical information to produce patient-specific advice.
Why Use Couplers?
- Healthcare providers don't have enough time to ask all the questions necessary to choose the best diagnosis or treatment.
- Consumers do not know what information to offer to complete the picture.
- No quality assurance system is in place to match a patient's situation against all the most recent medical literature.
Over 100 Couplers are available for screening, diagnosing, and managing different health problems. See the current list at www.pkc.com.
About PKC
PKC Corporation grew out of the singular vision of its president and founder, Lawrence L. Weed, MD.
In the eighties, PKC developed software for realizing Dr. Weed's idea of "coupling" patient information with medical literature. Over the next decade, we perfected techniques for methodically extracting information from a broad spectrum of the medical literature and we assembled a top-flight team to review that literature, populate the Coupler database, and draw connections between symptoms, conditions, and treatments.
Couplers for Employer
A healthier, well-informed workforce translates into higher productivity and lower healthcare costs for you. They provide the quality assurance system that modern medicine often lacks.
Couplers can help make your employees smarter healthcare consumers
What’s in it for member companies?
- Fewer misdiagnosed and undiagnosed conditions. Couplers are designed to pick up warning signs early, helping to avoid more costly treatments later.
- Cost-effective management of chronic conditions. Without proper management, conditions such as diabetes and hypertension can impose a heavy financial burden.
- Increased productivity. Healthy employees with healthy families can better focus on work.
- An effective alternative to expensive wellness programs. Couplers are more up-to-date and comprehensive than most wellness programs.
- A tool for promoting consumer-directed healthcare. Couplers help put you on the cutting edge of the future of healthcare.
- Incentive campaigns. We provide monthly reminders to your employees to try Couplers, prompting them to take responsibility for and spend some effort on their own health!
- Fewer claims. Well-informed employees push providers to give better care recommendations, minimizing the number of claims.
What’s in it for member employees?
- A thorough health profile.
- Advice for managing chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and carpal tunnel syndrome. Help with deciding whether problems require a visit to a healthcare professional. Assistance in making difficult medical decisions.
Couplers are:
- Unique and powerful — the most complete personalized health information tool available.
- Inexpensive.
- Easily linked to your corporate intranet.
- Private, confidential, and HIPAA-compliant.
- Available worldwide to employees, their families, and their providers.
- Branded with your corporate logo, if you choose.
Incentive Campaigns for Employers
Every month, BRS provides your HR department with ready-to-go incentive campaigns that remind your employees about the benefit and lead them to the Coupler that will help them the most. We do the work - you take the credit!
