ClinicaHealth's Online Health Community Platform Implemented for WomenHeart
Nation's only patient advocacy organization for women with heart disease now offering new online community.
ARLINGTON, VA - July 26, 2006 - ClinicaHealth, the leading provider of hosted online community solutions for health organizations, today announced that WomenHeart (http://www.womenheart.org/) has successfully implemented the ClinicaHealth-powered online community. Through this online community, millions of women with heart disease can now connect with others to share experiences and offer support in a dynamic and secure online environment.
"ClinicaHealth is pleased to provide WomenHeart with a highly effective social networking solution that will significantly strengthen the organization's support services," said Brian Loew, ClinicaHealth CEO. "As women with heart disease seek out others in similar situations, the online community powered by ClinicaHealth constitutes an indispensable resource to find others and share experiences and thoughts."
WomenHeart is the nation's only national patient advocacy organization serving the eight million American women who live with heart disease. The goal of WomenHeart is to decrease death and disability resulting from heart disease and to provide women with information and advocacy. The organization aims to improve the quality of life and healthcare for women with heart disease and to promote early detection, accurate diagnosis and proper treatment.
"We found that women with heart disease, and their families, benefit tremendously from the ability to connect with others through the ClinicaHealth-powered community," said Nancy Loving, Executive Director of WomenHeart. "At the same time, the ClinicaHealth solution did not require substantial investment in time and resources by WomenHeart. ClinicaHealth provides a fully hosted solution so we have been able to provide our members with a critically important service, with little effort on our part."
WomenHeart provides a variety of services to women heart disease survivors through 40 Support Networks throughout America. While the Support Networks fulfill a crucial social need, many women do not reside near a Support Network location and often experience a sense of loneliness and isolation. With ClinicaHealth, women with heart disease, and their families, can connect with others anytime, anywhere, and share their experiences, feelings and thoughts.
The ClinicaHealth-powered community can be viewed at: http://womenheart.inspire.com
About ClinicaHealth
Founded in 2005, ClinicaHealth is the leading provider of online health community solutions. ClinicaHealth provides safe, rich, and engaging online communities for patients, their caregivers and families through cutting-edge collaborative technologies. By enabling those affected by medical conditions to seek out and help one another, ClinicaHealth fosters the creation of vibrant, effective and close-knit social networks. ClinicaHealth's clients include The Children's Inn at NIH, Lung Cancer Alliance, National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), Arthritis Foundation (DC Chapter), ALS Association and WomenHeart. For additional information, visit www.clinicahealth.com or contact the company at (703) 243-0303.
About WomenHeart
WomenHeart is the nation's only national patient advocacy organization serving the 8,000,000 American women living with heart disease and provides them support, information and advocacy. Its aim is to improve their quality of life and healthcare, to include early detection, accurate diagnosis and proper treatment. WomenHeart offers community-based Support Networks in nearly 40 communities across America that provide a variety of services to women heart survivors, as well as national educational seminars and membership conferences.
