Products and Services

• Overview
• Medical Alert
• Consumer Alert
• Medication Management
• Vitals Monitoring
• Additional Products and Services

Medical Alert System

• More than one third of adults 65 and older fall each year in the United States (Hornbrook et al. 1994; Hausdorff et al. 2001).
• Among older adults, falls are the leading cause of injury deaths. They are also the most common cause of nonfatal injuries and hospital admissions for trauma (CDC 2005).
• The rates of fall-related deaths among older adults rose significantly over the past decade (Stevens 2006).

VRI’s medical alert systems help keep seniors and at-risk individuals safe, independent, and at-home longer. Our easy-to-use systems contact our Care Center with just the touch of a button ensuring that in an emergency you or your loved one can get the help that they need. With an average response time of less than 5 seconds after the call reaches our system, a caring staffed trained specifically to handle medical alerts ONLY, and a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week, 365 day a year call center you can rest easy knowing that someone is there when you need them. Do you have digital/VOIP phone service? If so, please see our consumer alert about PERS units and VOIP phone service.

Medication Adherence

• 55% of Older Adults do not follow, in some way, medication regimen. (Amarai, 1986).
• Medication non-adherence accounts for more than 10% of older adult hospital admissions (Vermiere, 2001).
• Medication non-adherence costs the US healthcare system approximately $290 billion a year or 13% of all spending (New England Health Institute).

Medication management is a growing and costly problem for seniors and at-risk individuals in the United States. VRI’s affordable, easy-to-use medication management systems helps seniors, at risk individuals, and persons with chronic illnesses better manage their medications helping to reduce illnesses and hospital visits associated with medication non-adherence. VRI’s medication dispensers are monitored by our Care Center which means if you or your loved one misses a dose we can follow up and make sure that adherence occurs. On average clients using our medication dispensers are 90% compliant with their doctor’s prescription regimen.

Vitals Monitoring

• Chronic Disease constitutes roughly 75 percent of all health care spending.
• Approximately 18% of patients are readmitted within 30 days of their hospital discharge (New England Healthcare Institute).
• A Department of Veteran Affairs study found a 25% reduction in the average number of days hospitalized and a 19% reduction in hospitalization costs for patients using Telemonitoring.

VRI is offering a turnkey solution designed to enable doctors, health plans and care givers to monitor the daily vital signs of their clients with a wide range of chronic illnesses including; diabetes, congestive heart failure, hypertension, COPD, and asthma.

VRI’s vital sign monitoring program is the result of 20 years of experience with in-home monitoring of clients with chronic illnesses, disabilities, and the elderly. Our Care Center watches for falls, exceptions to our client’s vital signs, and medication adherence 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.