About Healthyi
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Healthy Interactions (Healthyi) is a Chicago based company dedicated to improving the lives of millions of people (both patients and healthcare professionals) around the world.
Healthyi provides innovative conversation-based behavior change tools that transform the way in which healthcare consumers understand and internalize health information. Healthyi’s tools guide healthcare consumers through a process that generates insightful conclusions resulting in improved self-management behavior, decisions and actions. Healthyi partners with the leading and most respected sources of health content to custom develop its innovative, patent-pending conversation-based behavior change tools and services.
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What differentiates Healthyi from everyone else:
- Scalability and acceleration of desired outcomes
- A growing network of agents and facilitators that reach 100,000,000+ healthcare consumers
- A growing network of partnerships with the most respected sources of health content
- Comprehensive tools and services including: small group Conversation Maps™, 1-on-1 tools, take home tools, retail/pharmacy tools, online tools, national deployment infrastructure, and social networking tools for both healthcare professionals and healthcare consumers
- Healthyi owns all intellectual property associated with its tools
Healthyi Goals:
- Transform Health Education (by disease / by country-region),
- Become a Global Health Knowledge Creation Standard, and
- Advance and own the development of a Health Knowledge Creation Infrastructure
Healthyi Success to Date:
Healthyi launched the Canada diabetes Conversation Maps™, its first set of innovative, discovery-learning health knowledge creation tools, into the Canadian marketplace in 2006.
With sponsorship by Merck & Co., Inc.'s Journey for Control program, Healthyi will be launching the U.S. diabetes program at the 2007 ADA Scientific Sessions. Included will be 5 diabetes Conversation Maps™, a Healthcare Professional support and social networking website, and a Patient social networking website. Healthyi will train over 10,000 Healthcare Professionals in the use of the 5 U.S. diabetes Conversation Maps™ over the next 3 years.
Healthyi Partnerships:
Healthyi partners with the leading and most respected disease associations and market influencers in order to develop Conversation Maps™ and related tools with the most accurate and respected content. Healthyi currently has multi-year partnerships with:
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- American Diabetes Association
- Dietitians of Canada
- Diabetes United Kingdom
Healthyi is in discussions with a number of other disease associations and market influencers in multiple countries.
Additionally, Healthyi partners with industry leaders in specific disease classifications who recognize the strategic importance of being leaders in transforming health education in the disease classification in which they compete:
- LifeScan Canada
- Animas Canada
- Merck
- Lilly
Healthyi is in partnership discussions with a number of other industry leaders in multiple countries.
Thought leader quotes regarding Healthyi:
Karmeen Kulkarni
Past President Healthcare & Education
American Diabetes Association
"We at the ADA believe that Conversation Maps are one of the most important innovations in patient and physician education in a decade."
Dr. Tony O’Sullivan
President
International Diabetes Federation, Europe
"I’ve seen many things over the years. The Conversation Maps are the best – by a factor of 10."
Diabetes Patient (8 years diagnosed)
"For the first time in my life I feel like I have hope that I can manage my diabetes."