Wellness ROI
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AMSO Worksheet Tool L3-2
This tool is a worksheet that can be used to help you examine the extent to which your program is likely to produce long term behavior change. Using the worksheet…
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Annual Program Evaluation Survey Tool L1-11
This tool is a sample of a program evaluation survey that can be used to evaluate a wide range of issues about the effectiveness of an employee wellness program. The…
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Assuring Long Term Behavior Change – Crossing the “Chasm”
What is this about? First, the good news… employer wellness programs have been proven to help people change their short-term wellness behaviors. Now, the bad news… those same wellness programs have…
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Average Costs of Health Conditions
What is this about? The document in this edition of Connections is a comprehensive 22-page article from JAMA that provides a great deal of health care cost summary information for the…
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Bending the Cost Curve through Market-Based Incentives
This five-page article from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) identifies the main reasons why Obamacare will likely fail to manage health care costs. This article is a clear…
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Consumer Health Education Tool L3-7
This tool contains a detailed listing of consumer health education skills. Our definition of Consumer Health Education is: “The set of skills that enables the individual to efficiently and effectively…
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Do Workplace Health Promotion (Wellness) Programs Work?
This JOEM article by Goetzel et al. is the strongest consensus statement on the general and economic effectiveness of worksite wellness programs to date. This informal consensus statement published in…
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Health Management ROI: It’s Time for a Fresh Start
Excellent discussion by Ron Ozminkowski on a broader strategy for economic analysis of worksite wellness programming. This lucid discussion makes the case for using a broader array of economic variables…
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How to Calculate ROI Tool L2-10
This tool includes two detailed examples of how to calculate the Return-on-Investment (ROI) of an employee wellness program using primarily health care cost changes. Example #1 is for situations where…
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Humana Wellness Program Evaluation Study- “GO365”
What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides the results of a new large scale multi-employer case study of the “Go365” wellness program with more than 135,000 fully insured…
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Ideal Health Plan Design Tool L4-7
The Ideal Health Plan characteristics suggested here are for use in either public or private organizational settings and are appropriate for large, medium or small size employee groups. The Ideal…
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Ideal Health Plan Tool L3-10
The Ideal Health Plan characteristics suggested here are for use in either public or private organizational settings and are appropriate for large, medium or small size employee groups. The Ideal…
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Ideal Incentive Program Tool L3-3
This tool provides an overview of what an “ideal” long term wellness incentive program might look like. Short term 3-8 week wellness challenges can be conducted periodically, but the long…
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Ideal Wellness Incentive Tool L2-5
This tool provides an overview of what an “ideal” long term wellness incentive program might look like. Short term 3-8 week wellness challenges can be conducted periodically, but the long…
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Incentive Pay Values Tool L3-12
There are a large number of different types of possible incentive rewards that can be used in wellness programming. These are often referred to as “pay values.” For our purposes…
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LMS Primer Tool L3-4
LMS stands for Learning Management System and it's a global term for a computer system specifically developed for managing online courses, distributing course materials and allowing collaboration between students and…
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Master FAQ List Tool L2-2
The file contains general responses to frequently asked questions that are often raised by key stakeholders about employee wellness programs. You can augment these answers to suit your own organizational,…
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Medical Self-Care Skills Tool L3-6
Medical Self-Care is an area of health knowledge and capability that addresses the way we consult medical references and use home medical equipment to diagnose and treat minor, self-limiting health…
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Meta-Evaluation of Worksite Health Promotion Economic Return Studies: 2012 Update
Larry Chapman's meta-evaluation on economic return studies examines 62 peer review articles that report on the economic return and ROI of worksite wellness programs. The average Cost/Benefit Ratio for 25…
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New Study on the Costs of Modifiable Health Risks
Summary: This new study documents the excess risk premium (additional annual health costs) associated with 10 modifiable health risks from 7 industries and 223,461 employees covering the period 2007 to…
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Participation Strategies Tool L2-4
There are a large number of possible strategies that can be used to increase participation levels in your worksite wellness program. This tool describes in detail 12 major strategies for…
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Potential Savings through Prevention of Avoidable Chronic Illness among CalPERS State Active Members
This study on the preventable health care costs paid by the State of California provides a clear and rigorous rationale for wellness. It provides key data and methodology for analyzing…
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Program Descriptions of Effective Wellness Programs Tool L1-12
This tool provides a description of 10 employer programs that have earned the prestigious C.Everett Koop awards. This is the highest honor that can be awarded to employers for their…
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Results from Wellness combined with a CDHP
A just published article in JOEM that presents the findings of a 5 year strategy combining a targeted well-being improvement strategy along with a full replacement Consumer-Driven Health Plan (CDHP).…
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Results Hierarchy Tool L3-5
This tool consists of a table that provides detail about the various possible results associated with worksite wellness programs. The results are presented in a hierarchy with the most foundational…
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Sample Wellness Program Budget Tool L2-8
The file contains a sample budget developed as part of the National Healthy Worksite Program sponsored by the CDC and established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of…
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Short Primer on Wellness Program Evaluation
This 30 page document provides a quick and efficient look at key issues in program evaluation of worksite wellness and health promotion programs. It includes discussion of a number of…
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Strategies for Optimizing Results Tool L2-11
This tool contains a more detailed discussion of the 10 major strategies for optimizing the results and return from your employee wellness program. For each of the 10 major strategies…
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Technology Infrastructure for Wellness Programs Tool L1-6
This tool identified the various virtual interventions that constitute the core of an employee wellness programs. This technology is designed to perform all the basic functions of effective wellness programs.…
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The impacts of injury at the individual, community and societal levels: a systematic meta-review
This excellent review of the impact of injuries on individuals, employers and society outlines the best studies that have been conducted to date on the impact of injuries. This material…
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Tips for Using Self Service Technology Tool L2-6
This tool provides a number of tips and suggestions for getting the most benefit out of the major forms of self-service technology that are often used in employee wellness programs.…
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Total Economic Impact of Virgin Pulse Platform
What is this about? This edition of Connections newsletter provides an important report produced by the well-respected business consulting and analytics company Forrester. The report examines 4 large clients of the…
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Trial-Based Economic Evaluations in Occupational Health
This resource provides useful guidelines for conducting economic return and ROI analyses in work settings. This publication helps establish fair standards for how we conduct economic evaluations in work organizations.…
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Updated HERO Excess Risk Premium Cost Data
This Chapman Institute exclusive white paper provides updated 2012 HERO data on the risk premium cost associated with 8 major risk factors. This data is very useful in projecting the…
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Vendor Report Card Tool L2-3
This particular tool represents a sample of what a vendor report card might include. Each of the performance issue listed in the example can be addressed. One approach would be…
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Wellness Case Study
This white paper summarizes the one, two and three-year outcomes of one large employer with a well-designed, well implemented wellness program. This paper is based entirely on peer-reviewed, scientific evidence. …
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Wellness Challenge Case Study – The Everett Clinic
These case study highlights portray a successful wellness program in a multi-specialty, multi-site clinic in Western Washington. Key evaluation dashboard findings are highlighted and case details are provided.
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Worksite Wellness Programs Can Generate Savings – Harvard Meta Analysis
Harvard School of Public Health and Economics professors performed a critical meta-analysis of the scientific literature on costs and savings associated with wellness and disease prevention programs. The studies authors…
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