Press Releases
For Immediate Release: March 29th, 2007
Kersh Wellness™ and wired.MD Announce Partnership to Educate Employees
Kersh Wellness™ combines academic excellence, practical skills and years of experience to bring effective wellness to the workplace. Kersh has a staff of industry professionals that have been advancing innovative tools for wellness for nearly 20 years and has had companies and governmental agencies in nearly every state participate in their programs. wired.MD and Kersh Wellness have built a partnership to bring the streaMed patient and consumer health education solution to their clients throughout the United States.
There has been a consistent set of advancements within the corporate wellness market to find more efficient and effective ways in which to decrease overall healthcare costs for corporations. One of these advancements is in the realm of patient education and how it can positively affect healthcare outcomes for employees. Kersh Wellness is working to further provide such a solution within their product suite by implementing the wired.MD patient education titles and text handouts. This combined solution will help create a leading edge offering that can help achieve these outcomes.
“Kersh Wellness has been a pioneer in the corporate wellness market for 20 years. They are working to further meet that market's needs through providing a more advanced and efficacious patient education offering with wired.MD. We think there is a good opportunity to serve a great number of corporations and employees through this partnership.” says Mark Friess, CEO of wired.MD.
About Kersh Wellness
Since 1987 the Kersh Wellness staff of industry professionals has been advancing innovative tools for effective wellness in the workplace. Companies and governmental agencies in nearly every state have participated in their programs, including many Fortune 500 companies. The effectiveness of the Kersh Wellness programs has been featured in research journals and professional publications. For more information, please visit www.kershwellness.com
About wired.MD, Incorporated
wired.MD, Inc. was founded in Portland, Oregon in 2000. The company's mission is to empower healthcare professionals to improve patients' healthcare experience and reduce costs by making patient education more engaging, effective, and efficient to deliver. wired.MD is located at 733 S.W. Oak, Suite 200, Portland, Oregon, 97205, and can be contacted at (503) 889-0010, info@wired.md , or www.wired.md
