Patient Support Solutions

With increasing demands on clinicians our programs provide additional support to help patients self manage their condition

• We aim to integrate our solutions seamlessly with the patient’s doctor and become an extension of their service.
• We close the communication gap between patients and clinicians with our advanced patient feedback reporting tools. This enables clinicians to address specific adherence and self-management barriers.  We see this as a vital extension to their existing patient management practices.

Far from undermining the GP-patient relationship, a well-designed PSP should enhance it by significantly improving clinical outcomes for the patient and complementing the services a GP provides during the limited time they have with a patient.

GP engagement in PSPs drives clinical and business benefits

Successfully engaging GPs in an adherence programme will boost patient enrolment and further encourage patients to stay with the programme, thus driving increased positive outcomes for the individuals involved.

From a manufacturer’s point of view, increased adherence and the consequent improved health outcomes provide an opportunity to better demonstrate the efficacy of a course of treatment.

As healthcare funders around the world continue to place an ever-increasing emphasis on proven results when making purchasing decisions, pharmaceutical companies can no longer afford to ignore the role GPs can play in making PSPs a success.

Non-adherence to medication is a prevalent problem amongst patients with chronic diseases. Approximately half of the patients with a chronic disease have problems following their prescribed medication and are unable to obtain optimum clinical benefit.

Atlantis Healthcare provides a range of support solutions to assist patients with acute and chronic illnesses to better self -manage their symptoms, medication and lifestyle adjustments. 

Everyone stands to benefit from improved adherence to medication and lifestyle changes for chronic diseases:

• improve health outcomes for patients by increasing adherence to medication regimes and positive lifestyle changes;
• support pharmaceutical  commercial objectives by providing patient-centric care; and
• contribute to improvements of public healthcare utilisation  and effectiveness and economics.

Atlantis Healthcare uses health psychology and evidence based programme design to improve patients’ self-management of chronic conditions.

Self-care programmes can include any of the following elements:

• access to information about the disease and treatment options;
• empowering patients with questions to ask their health professionals around their disease;
• medical call centre support;
• written action/ care plans;
• patient assessment for the ability to engage in or take up self-management, i.e. their motivations, attitudes, physical or intellectual ability, family history and socio-cultural or economic factors, and;
• health care professionals information and training packs across disciplines (e.g. to assess a person’s capacity to self manage, and/or in having the necessary clinical/professional knowledge, attitudes and skills to support people to live with complex life issues and chronic conditions).