Quantum Intech Strategic Relationship With Microsoft HealthVault

Quantum Intech, Inc., and its subsidiary HeartMath LLC, in scientifically based stress reduction and performance boosting technologies,  announced the release of HeartMath’s emWave PC Stress Relief System connected to HealthVault, Microsoft’s consumer health platform. The connected system provides consumers and corporations with online data for overall fitness assessments, the ability to integrate physician’s office sessions with patient’s home sessions, integrated progress review of stored sessions, and backup storage and synchronization of session information from multiple computers for employers and employees.

HeartMath’s emWave PC is a unique, award-winning PC-based system that features heart rhythm feedback. The emWave PC program has become the stress intervention tool of choice for many corporate wellness programs and healthcare providers worldwide. With emWave PC, users quickly learn essential self-regulation and emotional management skills that increase their internal awareness of when the stress response starts as well as how to shift out of stress the moment it arises, resulting in improved overall health, performance and productivity.

Bruce Cryer, President and CEO, HeartMath LLC, said: "Business and healthcare organizations come to us for our unique, scientifically based stress reducing and performance enhancing solutions which give their employees and patients increased control over their personal health, and have been proven to measurably improve health metrics and significantly increase performance. By leveraging the Microsoft HealthVault platform, we are excited that our emWave PC Stress Relief System will provide employers and employees with enhanced functionality and significant value."

"HeartMath programs have resulted in significant positive outcomes for numerous healthcare systems and corporations. These results include reducing staff turnover from thirty-six percent to five percent for two hundred fifty staff members trained at Duke University Health Systems (emergency services)," said Catherine Calarco, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for HeartMath. "In addition, corporations have recognized significant improvements in motivation and productivity as well as reduced levels of depression, anxiety and fatigue. Through the HealthVault platform, it is now easier for organizations to readily access the HeartMath program data and achieve these positive outcomes for more people."

"HeartMath has been true innovators in the development of scientifically based stress reduction and performance enhancing technologies. The connection with HealthVault provides a unique, practical application for organizations," said James R. Mault, MD, a key figure behind Microsoft’s innovative HealthVault. "Through a cooperative effort, we will enable employers and employees to accomplish the wellness and performance goals they have set while providing them with the opportunity to collect, act on and share their health data with people they trust."

HealthVault is a free Web-based platform designed to put people in control of their health data. It helps them collect, store and share health information with family members and participating healthcare providers, and it provides people with a choice of third-party applications and devices to help them manage things such as fitness, diet and health. HealthVault also provides a privacy- and security-enhanced foundation on which a broad ecosystem of providers — from medical providers and health and wellness device manufactures to health associations — can build innovative new health and wellness management solutions to help put people in control of their their family’s health.