Practical Thought Leadership, Wellness Insights You Can Use
Viverae knows that you may have questions about workplace wellness and health management. To help you better understand the issues, we frequently create white papers to address relevant topics, answer your questions clearly and offer industry-driven thought leadership insights.
Worksite Wellness: How Engagement Drives Real Health Improvement
Influencing wellness is much more complicated than simply telling someone to eat more fruits and vegetables and exercise. In this Baylor study of wellness actions taken in over sixty corporate settings, we demonstrate real health improvement due to lifestyle changes. More importantly, the change was apparent for those with the greatest initial health risk.
Choosing Wisely: How Benefits Consultants Can Navigate the Fine Print to Find the Right Health Management Partner
For a benefits consultant, finding the right health management provider can be made easier by asking the right questions and knowing the answers you need to find.
The Importance of Biometric Screening
Many employees walk around with health risks they do not know about. Little do they know that completing a brief medical assessment can provide valuable information that could help them lead a healthier life and avoid serious health conditions.
Creating a Sustainable Healthy Work Environment
From debates on the American health care system to reports on the rising levels of obesity, the topic of health and wellness isn’t going away anytime soon. And for companies footing the bill and feeling the pain of employee health care costs, the declining health of employees is a bleak forecast at best. However, there is hope.
Driving Wellness Through Technology: Empowering Employees with the Right Information at the Right Time on the Right Device
The technology explosion over the past 15 years has resulted in a fundamental shift in the way people communicate. The internet and mobile phones have gone from an interesting novelty to an essential means of communication. Social networks allow people to know what their friends and connections are doing and thinking in real time. In a very short time, these technologies have changed from something we couldn't imagine to something many of us can't live without.
Three Steps to Wellness Success: A Program Design That Encourages Participation and Healthy Outcomes
For organizations looking to control health care costs and improve employee health, creating a successful health management program is a process that should begin with designing effective incentives, creating health-focused activities and support, and ultimately creating a culture of health across an organization that allows wellness to thrive.
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Using Health Assessments and Biometric Screenings To Reduce Health Risks and Lower Health Care Costs
A company must understand and monitor the conditions that are driving health care costs before it can take the steps needed to control health expenses.
Participation: Why Getting People Involved Is Critical for Wellness Success
Driving participation in a wellness program must begin with awareness that employees have a choice whether or not to participate. 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.
Wellness Program Incentives: Why They Work, How to Use Them
Viverae recommends that every employer's health management program include a meaningful incentive-based strategy that drives participation and delivers meaningful results.
Measuring the ROI of Corporate Wellness
Viverae conducted a recent survey of companies with corporate wellness programs. A vast number of respondents indicated their wellness programs had been in place long enough to see a return on their investment, however, few had taken steps to appropriately measure their return.
