Hooper Holmes and BioSignia Announce Joint Marketing Agreement
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., September 17, 2007 -- Hooper Holmes, Inc. (AMEX:HH)
today announced a joint marketing agreement between its Health &
Wellness Division and BioSignia, Inc. Per the agreement, Hooper
Holmes will actively promote BioSignia’s Know Your Number� Program
to wellness, disease management, and managed care organizations as
part of Hooper Holmes complete wellness solution. In addition,
BioSignia will market Hooper Holmes Health & Wellness as a preferred
partner for on-site biometric screenings services.
“BioSignia’s Know Your Number� Program is another link in our
complete supply chain solution for wellness, disease management, and
managed care companies” said Chris Behling, President of Hooper
Holmes’ Health & Wellness Division. “We now have another powerful
tool for transforming the data we collect via biometric screenings
into useful and actionable information allowing our customers to
predict, manage and mitigate health care expenses.”
“We are excited about this partnership because of the mutual
business opportunities it creates,” said Tim Smith, President and
CEO of BioSignia. “Our Know Your Number� Program is a best-in-class,
internet based, patented tool for performing disease-specific risk
assessment (DRA). It is a perfect compliment to the “toolset” of any
company in the wellness, population health and disease management
space. As a result of our partnership with Hooper Holmes, we will be
able to offer this powerful information to more people, institutions
and companies in our continued efforts to make a positive impact on
health outcomes and costs.”
About Hooper Holmes Health & Wellness
Hooper Holmes’ Health and Wellness Division leverages Hooper Holmes’
unique set of assets to provide a complete service for wellness,
disease management, and managed care companies. Health & Wellness
provides scheduling support, fulfillment of supplies, blood
collection kits, medical screenings, lab testing and data
transmission. By leveraging a network of over 9,000 examiners and a
wholly owned reference lab with medical device manufacturing and
robust fulfillment capabilities, the Division helps its customers
reach more participants, gather more participant data earlier in the
disease management process, better target interventional health
support services and more easily reach participants on their terms,
at work or at home.
About BioSignia
Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, BioSignia is a leading
technology company focused on bringing innovative predictive
modeling solutions to the preventive health and life insurance
markets. At the core of BioSignia’s flagship solution, Know Your
Number, is the company’s proprietary synthesis modeling approach to
chronic disease risk prediction. In 2004, BioSignia received the
Disease Management Association of America’s prestigious award for
Best Enabling Tool for Disease Management. Since then, the company’s
talented R&D team has continued to advance synthesis modeling,
continuously updating it to reflect the ever expanding need for
effective chronic disease prevention, management and treatment. For
more information, visit www.knowyournumber.com
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