Condition management Program

Condition management

Overview

Chronic Disease – These diseases usually develop slowly, last long periods of time, and not easy to cure. The long-term effects may be difficult to predict.

Some are, Diabetes, Congestive heart failure, Asthma, Hypertension, Chronic kidney disease, Depression, Irritable bowel syndrome, Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Parkinson’s syndrome, Multiple sclerosis And Many More.

While some conditions cause few problems, others cause only episodic problems or symptoms that can be controlled with medication but need regular monitoring. In some cases, a chronic disease may severely limit a person’s ability to work, go to school or take care of routine needs.

Why enrol your employees for Apollo Telehealth’s Condition Management Program?

Though chronic diseases are lifelong, proactive disease management and healthy lifestyle choices can help one stay ahead of the curve. Although a lot of information is available online, it only seems like medical jargon, which is difficult to comprehend and implement.

Understanding the needs concerns and difficulties faced, we are providing this Chronic Disease Management Program (DMP) to aid and enable you to manage these conditions.

At Apollo TeleHealth, we understand the synergy between employee’s health and work performance. Hence, we have come out with result driven programs, which can help you personally manage your health condition, in case and in addition to the treatment you would be under, for a prevailing health condition.

Program’s Major Offering

1. Healthy Motherhood Program

Motherhood is one of the finest things a Woman looks forward to. However, it is not short of complications, even after the child is delivered. There is a need to ensure safety of both the mother and child tilla certain period. This is where Apollo Telehealth’s Healthy Motherhood Program can make a big difference. Well-experienced, knowledgeable, and accommodative Counsellors form a part of the Healthy Motherhood Program who counsel and prepare mothers on managing conditions like emergencies, malnutrition, understand family planning, develop a strong mindset and offering expert motherhood advises.

2. Post-natal care program

Post Natal Program is for those mothers who might deliver their child under varying health conditions or challenging environments. This could be outside at places with no proper facility. It might also include women who have gone through depression. These conditions need to be extremely well managed. The Post Natal program designed by Apollo TeleHealth includes the very basics of developing confidence with the mother. By respecting the concerns of the women, this program prepares them for a period of mental and physical rehabilitation through activities which are less stressful and comfortable.

3. Chronic Disease management program

Managing Chronic diseases has always been a challenging task. There is a need to devise strategies which can reduce costs and increase wellness of patients. This is exactly the objective of Apollo TeleHealth in designing a comprehensive Chronic Disease Management program. This program makes Chronic Disease Management a top priority by making use of technology. One of the other major objectives of this program is to make it as affordable as possible to the patients.

4. Diabetes Management program

Diabetes being the most common issue faced by a large percentage of people in India is best managed by lifestyle and diet modification at doable level. The well-crafted Diabetes Management program by Apollo TeleHealth includes frequent monitoring of the status of sugar levels and necessary instructions conveyed to the patients based on the monitoring outcome It also includes creating awareness on do’s and don’ts to handle diabetes productively.

5. Hypertension Management Program

Hypertension, like Diabetes, continues to be a major reason for frequent variations in health. Blood Pressure levels need to be maintained at normal levels even if a slight variation is permissible. The Hypertension Management Program offered by Apollo TeleHealth includes lifestyle modifications, dietary modifications, and regular monitoring of Blood Pressure Levels through constant interactions with our wellness advisors.

6. Pre-Conception Counselling

Given that most of the pregnancies, especially in the rural sectors, happen without a proper planning, a good preconception counselling can do a world of good for women. Keeping this in mind, Apollo Telehealth’s Pre-Conception Counselling Program is aimed at educating women who intend to become pregnant and bear a child with the factors that can influence delivery of the child. Our Councillors educate on various factors which can have an influence on pregnancy like Obesity, Age, Chronic Diseases and Malnutrition as well as formulating steps to overcome them.

7. Geriatric Care program

As much care is required for the young citizens and middle-aged citizens, Senior Citizens deserve equal or much more attention. Health related issues pertaining to senior citizens are on a rise due to various reasons including Age, Facilities and changes seen in the healthcare system. The Geriatric Care Program designed by Apollo TeleHealth is aimed at consistently monitoring the health status of senior citizens and taking steps to help them stay healthy. It also helps them to be aware of any possible emergency and take steps in advance to seek medical attention.

General Benefits:

• Our program provides information and self-management support to help people with chronic disease better manage their condition, improve health outcomes, prevent complications, and reduce the need for hospitalization.
• We do health risk assessment for every individual and proactively identify people’s needs and give them tailor made advice.
• Clients enrolled in our program can avail our services for all chronic diseases they might be suffering from.
• Through this program, we address all the needs and concerns of our clients and maintain their electronic health records under one platform.
• Our Counselling Service aims to improve and promote the physical, social, and emotional wellbeing of clients.
• Our caring health advisors are trained extensively to listen empathetically and provide health coaching and support people to manage their chronic condition.
• Our health advisors will answer many questions which go unasked or unanswered due to doctors’ time constraints.
• Our main intention is to offer resourceful, client-centred, and flexible supportive counselling services.

Benefits for Organization

DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOUR: On enrolling into the program, the employees will develop the habit of celling a qualified medical professional rather than seeking a nonprofessional peer help.

HEALTHY EMPLOYEES: With continued advice on better lifestyle habits to improve health, the organisation is enriched with healthy employees.

LESS ABSENTEEISM: The productive hours for employees suffer whether it is a sick day for oneself or any of the family members. With medical help a phone call away, loss of precious work hours funnels down to minimal.

DECREASE HEALTH CARE COST TO THE COMPANY: With decrease in unnecessary visits to the doctors, there is an evident decrease in net health care expenditure by the company.

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM: All information shared between the doctor and the patient is stored electronically. This ensures easy access, retrieval and reporting of health care information at any given point of time.