An Industry First: Fully Customizable Online Health Activity Tracker™ from Wellsource

PORTLAND, OR

Wellsource, Inc. (www.wellsource.com) recently released the first customizable online health management program that identifies and tracks personal lifestyle changes, such as fitness and nutrition. Now, with the Wellsource® Health Activity Tracker (HAT), health program administrators can deploy an internet-based risk tracking and monitoring health management / health improvement tool that calibrates to their company’s specific wellness programs.

Previously, companies had to make do with force fitting functionality from off-the-shelf software applications.
With the Health Activity Tracker, participants gain access to a powerful, yet very intuitive, Web-based health and wellness manager that coaches them to achieve their individual health and fitness goals, while tying directly to their company’s rewards and incentives program to receive credit for accomplished wellness milestones.

Program health coordinators can see overall worker participation levels, population performance-to-goal measurements, and detailed drill-down reports for each employee participant. For program administrators, Wellsource offers a free trial demonstration site of the Health Activity Tracker to experience the employee user interface first hand.

“We have found a critical element to most successful company wellness programs is the ability to give employee participants a real-time ‘score card’ that connects them to tangible progress, specific achievements, and, importantly, their rewards account balance,” says Don Hall, CEO and Board Chair of Wellsource. “Corporate healthcare customers are telling us the Health Activity Tracker easily integrates with their existing wellness programs and culture, improving overall corporate participation and healthy outcomes.”

Participants log onto the Health Activity Tracker and record health data such as weight, blood pressure and any health activities they’ve completed during the month. The Health Activity Tracker charts their progress toward achieving “healthy” goals, and awards points for participating in healthy lifestyle activities.

Health Activity Tracker Features:
• Records monthly aerobic activity
• Tracks progress toward priority health and wellness goals
• Logs participation in health classes and events
• Registers completed wellness data
• Accumulates monthly points for use in wellness incentive programs and awards
• Monitors changes in health screening data such as blood pressure, weight, cholesterol, and other risk factors.
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Program administrators such as wellness coordinators, human resource administrators, or employee health nurses can easily use the Health Activity Tracker to access and manage wellness goals, run reports for employee participation rates, analyze group comparisons, and review corporate population health improvements.

The Health Activity Tracker can be used as a stand-alone software application or work in tandem with a health risk assessment and profiling application for proactive healthcare management. It also offers an inclusive initial software platform for administrators interested in a standardized user interface.

Health Activity Tracker Benefits:
• Improves participation in health and wellness programs by allocating points for performance and providing recognition for reaching healthcare goals
• Informs a participant of personal accomplishments with monthly wellness activity reports
• Alerts program administrators of participant trends with group activity tracking including:
• Participation levels
• Number of participants reaching goals
• Popular activities and events
• Helps program administrators measure the effectiveness of their corporate wellness program
• Allows program administrators to modify interventions based on program goals and participant feedback

Wellsource, Inc. has been a leading provider of health risk assessment systems for over twenty-five years. Through its Portland, Oregon operations, Wellsource develops and markets health risk assessment software, web-based health content, printed health improvement guides and newsletters, and other health promotion and disease management programs. These instruments are used in lowering health insurance claims and controlling insurance expenditures by identifying health risk factors among employer groups and other populations.