TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NeuPath Health Inc. (TSXV:NPTH) (“NeuPath” or the “Company”), Canada’s largest provider of chronic pain management services, announced today an initiative to expand the Company’s digital health capabilities. Pivot Design Group (“Pivot”) – a leading Toronto boutique strategic design and communications agency specializing in service design, user experience design and communication design – will work with NeuPath, its physicians, healthcare providers, and patients to translate research and insights into proprietary digital health solutions designed to provide chronic pain patients with multi-modal care and the tools needed to live a complete and fulfilled life.
“As we’ve seen in our own business, the pandemic has accelerated the adoption and need for digital and virtual health solutions. Chronic pain costs governments, insurance carriers, employers, and patients $60 billion per year in Canada and $560 billion in the US; a chronic pain-focused virtual health solution will allow us to reach more patients in a far more scalable manner,” stated NeuPath CEO, Grant Connelly. “Outside of our business, transactions like the merger in the U.S. between Teladoc and Livongo show the growing importance and value of digital and virtual health solutions. Our large patient base, combined with our roster of chronic pain-focused physicians provides us with a vast knowledge base to expand our digital health offering; we chose Pivot because of their Informed Design approach and their experience building solutions in the chronic pain space.”
“Pivot is pleased to partner with NeuPath on this critically important initiative and we look forward to working alongside their healthcare professionals and patients as we transition the company’s leading pain management brands over to effective digital health solutions for their customers,” said Ian Chalmers, founder and creative director at the studio. “Our signature Informed Design investigative approach is a highly co-creative, research activity focused on users throughout the design process that can seamlessly repurpose conventional research knowledge into advanced digital products that, which will allow NeuPath to address the changing needs of their patients.”
About NeuPath
NeuPath is Canada’s largest provider of chronic pain management services that operates under two leading brands in Ontario: CPM - Centres for Pain Management and InMedic Creative Medicine. NeuPath has 12 locations across Ontario with more than 100 licensed healthcare providers that provide care to over 11,000 patients annually. NeuPath offers a comprehensive chronic pain assessment and multi-modal treatment plan based on recommendations by a group of trained physicians to help patients manage their chronic pain and optimize their quality of life. In addition to chronic pain management clinics, NeuPath offers workplace health services as the single, largest cost of chronic pain is lost productivity due to sick days, short and long-term disability claims, and job loss.
About Pivot Design Group
Pivot Design Group is a leading Toronto strategic design and communications studio, specializing in design research, digital UX design, brand design and service design, creating real quality solutions for clients. Since its founding more than 20 years ago, Pivot has shaped its own brand of strategic design, balancing creativity, critical analysis and intuitive thinking through the lens of research and design. The studio’s Informed Design strategic approach delivers consistently exceptional results for enhancing the health and well-being of people and organizations. Over its 20-year history, Pivot Design has successfully completed over 2,000 projects and delivered innovative design solutions to more than 300 clients in different sectors across the business spectrum.
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