About Alere Wellbeing

Alere Wellbeing brings together science, technology, and personal interaction to help people recognize and modify behaviors to avoid chronic illness and live longer, more vital lives. Alere Wellbeing’s evidence-based programs address modifiable health risks that contribute to chronic disease: tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and stress.

Alere Wellbeing is known and respected for its pay-for-performance business model, intense focus on scalable service quality, dedicated account management, continuous program improvement, and transparent reporting of measurable outcomes. Alere Wellbeing has contributed to more than 100 published research studies and maintains collaboration with the American Cancer Society^® and an active research program funded by the Centers for Disease Control, American Legacy Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.

Prior to joining Alere Inc., Alere Wellbeing was known as Free & Clear^®. Originally a department of Group Health Cooperative, a consumer-managed, regional health system serving more than 600,000 members in the Pacific Northwest, Free & Clear^® evolved 25 years ago out of research funded by the National Cancer Institute to test the effectiveness of telephonic smoking cessation treatment.