Healthcare

Advisory Panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Worksite Health and Productivity Management Project identified best practices for wellness programs.

Best Practices Criteria

1. Employ features and incentives that are consistent with the organization's core mission, goals, operations, and administrative structures.
2. Operate at multiple levels, simultaneously addressing individual, environmental, policy, and cultural factors in the organization.
3. Target the most important health care issues among the employee population.
4. Engaging and tailoring diverse components to the unique needs and concerns of individuals.
5. Achieve high rates of engagement and participation, both in the short and long-term.
6. Achieve successful health outcomes, cost savings, and additional organizational objectives.
7. Program evaluated based upon clear definitions of success, as reflected in the scorecards and metrics agreed upon
   by all relevant constituencies.

Healthcare

Price Waterhouse Coopers recommends refreshing engagement techniques and examining how incentives are being used in order to maximize the benefits from your wellness program.

Goal: Offer variety of incentives and engagement features that change monthly to keep your members engaged in your program.

uBoost Solution: uBoost can help drive the behaviors introduced and encouraged by your wellness programs. By utilizing social tools and gaming mechanics, uBoost leverages technology and proven feature sets that increase the frequency of your target behaviors. As the wellness program goals become more challenging uBoost can adapt, offering incentives such as customizable avatars, collectable badges, and status labels to inspire desired behavior patterns. Your custom catalog includes not only merchandise and gift cards but the ability to run contests, auctions and opportunities for charitable giving. Your branded merchandise, convenient parking spots, and other benefits fulfilled by you can be included in your custom catalog.

Disease Management Programs

Problem: Low awareness and motivation to adopt behaviors that can keep catastrophic illnesses under control

uBoost Solution: Companies looking to control the rising costs of catastrophic diseases can help guide and motivate members to adopt behaviors that can keep conditions under control. Teaching members how to properly control their conditions through websites, pamphlets, newsletters and videos is a critical first step. For example, once diabetic patients learn more about are their condition, uBoost can help trigger important behaviors like blood monitoring and insulin administration to reduce the risk of serious injury, and the need for emergency care. Connecting fellow-members through leaderboards and status recognition can help provide additional encouragement and support.