Viverae, a leading national provider of customized health management solutions, is pleased to announce the release of its new white paper that explains how organizations can use health assessments and biometric screenings to understand health risks and reduce health care costs.
This paper, “What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Using Health Assessments and Biometric Screenings To Reduce Health Risks and Lower Health Care Costs,” is available now for free download.
Almost 80 percent of health care spending in the United States results from preventable chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and lung cancer. Any organization that wants to control health care costs must take steps to address the causes of these conditions. Poor nutrition, lack of exercise, obesity and use of tobacco are significant drivers of health care costs that can be controlled by changing behavior. Measuring the health risks that are present in your organization requires only two brief steps from employees – completion of a health assessment questionnaire and participation in a biometric screening.
“Health assessments and biometric screenings are essential first steps for any organization that wants to understand its current health care risks,” said Michael Nadeau, president and CEO of Viverae. “Armed with this information, a company can develop an action plan that addresses the specific risks that are driving costs. Organizations can use this aggregate data to build a strong baseline to measure improvements in health and reductions in health cost – the ROI on your wellness investment.”
The new paper from Viverae offers clear direction for any wellness or health management program to use health assessments and biometric screenings to reduce risks, improve employee health and lower health care costs.
When you download this paper, you will learn how a program can:
• Take the pulse of your organization: The first step toward changing behavior and reducing health costs is measuring the risks that exist in your organization. Health assessment questionnaires and biometric screenings are valuable tools to gather this information.
• Use the data appropriately: Gathering this data can help an organization better understand the specific health risks that employees face. This information also makes it easier to develop a plan of action to address specific issues.
• Move forward with a plan that makes a difference: With a baseline of aggregate employee health data, an organization can measure the reductions in risk factors and health care costs over time.
“Driving participation in a wellness program must begin with awareness that employees have a choice whether or not to participate,” Nadeau said. “To achieve results with your program, you must first provide a clear course of action, remove any potential obstacles and make it easy for employees to decide to participate.
“Getting a majority of your people to complete health assessments and to participate in biometric screenings builds momentum for future success and allows you to prove that your investment dollars are being spent wisely,” he said. “This paper explains how to use health assessments and biometric screenings effectively to generate the ROI you need.”
Find out how to use health assessments and biometric screening in a wellness program that helps your organization mitigate increases in health care costs, decrease absenteeism and raise productivity.
Download the paper “What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Using Health Assessments and Biometric Screenings To Reduce Health Risks and Lower Health Care Costs” now and learn how to get results and ROI from the wellness program at your organization.
About Viverae
Founded in 2003, Viverae (viv-AIR-ā) is a national provider of comprehensive health management solutions that help corporations reduce health care costs through improved employee health. Dallas-based Viverae helps employers and their employees control health care costs by identifying, addressing and reducing health risks before they turn into significant medical expenses. Viverae’s solutions are a unique combination of comprehensive health assessments, employee incentives, creative engagement strategies and proprietary software to manage client programs from beginning to end. For more information, visit viverae.com
