Alcott Adds Ziva Guide Subscription to Employee Benefit Portfolio

The Alcott Group Rolls out ZivaGuide™ – A Unique Subscription-Based Service Providing Customized Healthcare Information

Farmingdale, NY, Buffalo, NY…

The Alcott Group (Farmingdale and Buffalo, NY), one of New York State’s most prominent Professional Employer Organizations (PEO) with divisions in Long Island and Buffalo, NY, recently announced a new service for its clients - ZivaGuide™.  This revolutionary new subscription-based service is designed to provide individuals with access to unbiased, personalized, customized and localized healthcare information and enable them to create customized health profiles. Alcott’s clients and worksite employees will be given a free subscription as a value added enhancement to the company’s expanding selection of employee benefits.

Using ZivaGuide, employees can retrieve information about specific diseases and health conditions for which they may be vulnerable. After learning about a specific health condition, they can then use ZivaGuide to access resources to help them control the associated risks. In this way, ZivaGuide is an outstanding tool, which in helping empower individuals to take more control of their health, also serves to contain health costs.

Among ZivaGuide’s user-friendly features is the “Health Condition Association Locator” enabling individuals to conduct a zip code-based search for the nearest chapters of support and provider health condition associations. Additionally, there is a “Health Condition Library,” which offers information about a wide variety of health conditions from Alzheimer’s to vision loss. Individuals seeking more information about the medications they are taking can utilize ZivaGuide to search its database of 35,000 medications and in easy understood language learn how the medication works and potential interactions with other medicines, etc. ZivaGuide also facilitates physician searches by zip code and specialty, as well as providing a pull-down list of different healthcare facilities, searchable by zip codes, which includes location and available services.

As further evidence of its leading-edge quality, ZivaGuide encompasses a “What’s New” section providing timely healthcare information from leading newspapers and other sources, which can be downloaded for future reference. A “What the Experts are Reading” section, searchable by condition, provides a list of scholarly publications that individuals can consult for additional information.

With Alcott’s provision of ZivaGuide, its client companies and their employees become members of the ZivaGuide community, gaining additional benefits such as access to the ZivaGuide Help Center, a telephone-based help desk. Additionally, they will receive customized information on subjects that include various conditions and illnesses, medications, services and resources, as well as related financial and legal options.

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