More employers are taking steps to improve their employees’ health by making sure they take their medicines as prescribed, a move that could stave off more serious and costly health consequences, according to a new report sponsored by the National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC).

GPs at The Orchard Medical Centre in Bristol have reported on the success of telehealth in improving care for patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), keeping them independent and out of emergency care, and promoting greater self-management.

MEDai, Inc., headquartered in Orlando, FL, a leading provider of advanced solutions for healthcare that utilize award-winning predictive analytics, announced that its solutions are actively assisting Medicare Part D benefit sponsors with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services mandate, calling all Medicare Part D to offer members a medication therapy management (MTM) program.

Florida pharmacists will join forces with nurses, physicians assistants, physicians and chiropractors to provide disease prevention and medication therapy management (MTM) services to Miami area residents during Florida’s largest annual public health fair to be held on February 14, 2009 at Miami Dade Community College from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

ALR Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: ALRT) announces the initial results from the ECHO Healthcare Education Foundation of Alabama comprehensive diabetes intervention program. The program, sponsored by ALRT, shows significant reduction in A1c values.