NOVEMBER - 202219invasive, and easy to use. "The most common feedback we receive from patients is they forget they are even wearing the SmartPatch, and that it can restore a sense of control over their lives--which is hugely rewarding to our team," says Mr. Kuraguntla. To ensure the patient perspective is captured in their ongoing work, Alio created a Patient and Family Advisory Council, which meets regularly to discuss developments with the product, provide feedback, and discuss advocacy challenges and opportunities.Alio's product is designed to fit into the current clinical workflow, improving the efficiency of nephrologists and dialysis clinic staff for obtaining key metrics they are already federally mandated to monitor. Alio has created a robust ecosystem of global partnerships allowing the company to not only get the technology into the hands of those who can benefit from it most, but also create a tight feedback loop for product refinement. Alio's Hub automatically sends real-time SmartPatch measurements to healthcare staff through a web-based portal enabling timely interventions--thereby improving health outcomes and reducing the significant avoidable costs to the Payer of complications, hospitalizations, and readmissions.Alio works with widely respected entities like Intermountain Healthcare, U.S. Renal Care, KidneyX (a US based public-private partnership for innovation in kidney care sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services and the American Society of Nephrology), Lifeline Vascular Care, DaVita KSA, the National Health Service (NHS) of the UK, the Academic Health Sciences Network (AHSN), and more.Alio welcomes inquiries for potential clinical partnership opportunities and expects to receive its commercial clearance in early 2023. Mr. Kuraguntla concludes, "Our mission is to deliver peace of mind to people on dialysis and reduce the significant burden of preventable costs to the health system. We believe Alio is exactly the type of forward-thinking innovation that's been needed by dialysis patients for far too long."
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