Lifeclinic International to Discuss the Benefits of Their Health Testing Stations for Maintaining Employee Wellness in Retail Environments at NACDS 2008 Annual Meeting
Featured at this year's conference will be Lifeclinic's imitative to encourage retail clients to utilize their blood pressure monitors and health testing stations for employee wellness.
Burtonsville, MD (PRWEB) April 23, 2008
Lifeclinic International, Inc. (http://www. lifeclinic. com), the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of automated blood pressure monitors and health testing stations, found in 25,000 pharmacies, will be discussing how its technology can also serve the retailer's employees at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (http://www. nacds. org) (NACDS ) Annual Meeting, The Breakers Hotel and Conference Center, Cabana #1, April 26-29, 2008, in Palm Beach, Florida.
"Traditionally, retailers provide our blood pressure monitors (http://www. lifeclinic. com/products. aspx) for their customers as a way to promote wellness and to help drive consumer traffic to the retailer's pharmacy where the unit resides. However, there's an incredible opportunity to serve a population of people who are at the store almost every day -- the retailer's employees," says Lifeclinic Senior Vice President, David Read.
He continues, "Lifeclinic is committed to helping our retail customers design and implement programs that can help control their organization's healthcare costs (http://www. lifeclinic. com/solutions. aspx). For example, when our health stations identify an employee who is pre-hypertensive, there is an opportunity for early intervention and education to promote generally recommended lifestyle changes, which in turn may allow the employee to forgo the need for costly medications, visits to the doctor and missed days of work. Obviously, this also benefits the employer's bottom-line. For those people who our health stations identify as being hypertensive, the employee's healthcare provider can be called upon to immediately address factors such as lack of exercise, unhealthy diet, obesity and bad lifestyle habits, and may also recommend inexpensive medication that will prevent the much higher costs of hospitalization and lost productivity."
Lifeclinic's latest line of automated health testing stations (http://www. lifeclinic. com/lc600.aspx) offer automated blood pressure, weight, body fat and blood oxygen tests. The health station's scalability allows for the integration of additional tests, such as those for sight, hearing and bone density, from multiple manufacturers. Peripheral input ports include IR, USB and Bluetooth for interfacing and uploading data from various personal health devices such as glucose meters and pedometers.
Consumers and employees can easily navigate through the health station's interface of test options, health information, and a database of the retailer's products, coupons and discounts, via a color LCD touch screen. Optional features include both a magnetic stripe and a barcode reader for retail loyalty card programs. The barcode reader can also generate multimedia product information, allowing consumers to retrieve tailored product information for general merchant-dise, HBA, OTC and Rx products.
Lifeclinic's blood pressure monitors and health stations are designed to help retailers and companies motivate people to become more actively involved in their health care. "Self-monitoring and self-education are crucial steps towards becoming healthier," said Read.
About Lifeclinic International, Inc.:
Lifeclinic was established in 1976 as Vita-Stat Medical Services, Inc. Since then, it has grown to be the world's largest supplier of commercial, automated, blood pressure monitors and health stations. Lifeclinic monitors can be found in over 30,000 pharmacies and 4,000 company and organizational wellness centers worldwide, accounting for 500 million blood pressure measure-ments annually. Lifeclinic monitors, health stations and management systems encourage individuals to take an active role in their healthcare and provide corporate management with tools to help reduce costs while simultaneously improving the health of individual employees. Lifeclinic monitors and health stations can be found throughout the United States and in many other countries worldwide.
Please visit http://www. lifeclinic. com (http://www. lifeclinic. com) for more information.
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