Alere Oncology Case Management Program Winner of Dorland Health Case in Point Platinum Award

ATLANTA, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Alere Health, one of the nation's leading providers of integrated health and wellness solutions to health plans and employers, announced today that its Oncology Case Management Program is the recipient of a Dorland Health Case in Point Platinum Award. The award recognizes the most successful and innovative case management programs working to improve healthcare across the care continuum.  In particular, Dorland honors those programs that effectively educate and empower patients, improve adherence and wellness, manage quality care, and contain healthcare costs.

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Alere was one of 26 recipients honored at Dorland Health's Second Annual Case in Point Platinum Awards Ceremony, held this May at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.  Other winners included Cigna, Wellpoint, IBM, Johns Hopkins, GlaxoSmithKline, and Kaiser Permanente.

"We won this award because of the positive impact we have on our program's participants and our innovative care management approach, which is focused on improving participants' quality of life during a stressful and often emotionally draining treatment process," said Mike Cotton, Alere Health's President of Health Improvement. "This award is a tribute to the overall quality of our program and the positive outcomes we consistently achieve for our participants, their families and our customers."

Alere is the nation's most experienced provider of comprehensive cancer treatment support programs. Through interventions delivered by seasoned oncology nurses, Alere's programs help empower cancer patients to improve their own care, increase treatment plan compliance, and achieve meaningful clinical outcomes that result in financial savings for clients.

For more information about Alere's program, visit http://www.alere.com/casemgmt/casemgmt/oncology.html.

About Alere:

Alere Health is the health management services business of Alere Inc. (previously Inverness Medical Innovations). Alere, a Latin verb, meaning "to care for" or "to support," offers the most patient-centered health management services available from a single provider in the industry. Alere provides health interventions that cover an individual's entire lifespan, from pre-cradle to end-of-life care, and the company's services range from wellness and prevention to the total health management of individuals with chronic illnesses. Alere's continuum of services begins with preconception, pregnancy, NICU and first year of life; it continues with lifelong programs focused on health, wellness, the management of such conditions as heart failure, COPD, and asthma, and the complex management required for end-of-life care. For more information regarding Alere, please visit www.alere.com.

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