The Intel Health Guide, which received 510(k) market clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in July, is a comprehensive personal health system that combines an in-home patient device — the Intel® Health Guide PHS6000 — as well as an online interface — the Intel® Health Care Management Suite — allowing clinicians to monitor patients in their homes and manage care remotely. The Health Guide is designed to be used by healthcare professionals to manage their patients at home.

“Intel has spent years researching the needs of caregivers and their patients. We recently launched the Intel Health Guide as the first in a series of products intended to assist health providers to care for their patients and to empower patients to care for themselves,” said Mariah Scott, director of Sales and Marketing for the Intel Digital Health Group. “With their expertise in health monitoring solutions and nationwide call center support structure, we are excited to work with AMAC as our first market channel partner for the Health Guide System.”

Frederic Siegel, AMAC’s Executive Vice President commented, “We are pleased to be working with Intel as the first Market Channel Partner for the launch of the Intel® Health Guide. AMAC has been a leading provider of health and safety monitoring solutions for over two decades. We believe this new collaboration with Intel will greatly enhance our suite of digital health and wellness solutions to connect patients and providers and further our market position in the remote patient monitoring sector.”

The Health Guide promotes greater patient engagement and more efficient care management by enabling communication between patients and health care professionals and providing clinicians with access to the most current, actionable data. This solution offers interactive tools for personalized care management and includes vital sign collection, patient reminders, surveys, multimedia educational content, and feedback and communications tools, such as video conferencing and email messages. Clinicians have ongoing access to data so that they can better manage each patient’s conditions while patients benefit from customized care in the comfort of their own living room.

To learn more about Intel Health Guide please visit: http://www.intel.com/healthcare/ps/healthguide/index.htm.

About American Medical Alert Corp.

AMAC is a healthcare communications company dedicated to the provision of support services to the healthcare community. AMAC’s product and service portfolio includes Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) and emergency response monitoring, electronic medication reminder devices, disease management monitoring appliances and healthcare communication solutions services. AMAC operates nine communication centers under local trade names: H-LINK OnCall, Long Island City, NY and Clovis NM, North Shore TAS, Port Jefferson, NY, Live Message America, Audubon, NJ, ACT Teleservice, Newington, CT and Springfield, MA, MD OnCall, Cranston RI and Capitol Medical Bureau Rockville, MD, American MediConnect and Phone Screen Chicago, IL to support the delivery of high quality, healthcare communications.