Health Engineering Group

Who Is the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Patient?
What characterizes the 80+ million Americans who visit 500,000+ alternative therapists every year? Research published by the American Medical Association offers key insights that substantially differentiate these patients from those needing routine access to primary care.
Typically, the CAM patient:

• Suffers From Difficult and Chronic Condition(s) ? Many suffer all day, many have been suffering for years.
• Already Has Been to Conventional Doctor(s) and Finds Allopathic Remedies (Conventional Medicine) Inadequate or Undesirable.
• Motivated: The Patient Wants Help.
• Accustomed to Paying For Services Out-Of-Pocket (i.e. not covered by Health Insurance)
• Is More Affluent, Better Educated, And Older.

A patient currently has no resource whatsoever for comparing or finding the optimal modality or practitioner for treatment of his/her problems. The problem, while pronounced in mainstream medicine, is substantially greater with CAM.  To date, literally no one, except the founders of the company has made that information available to patients. 

Employers, Health Plans and their mainstream physicians are particularly in need of the company?s services. Market forces are driving them toward providing CAM, with significant dollars being spent on ineffective ?list provider? networks. Until the founding of the company they were unable to knowledgeably identify effective providers. The Company has developed unique and powerful tools to assist employers, Health Plans, physicians, and patients to identify and access the right practitioner, modality, and treatment.