Our clients have asked for a tool to measure the attitudes and habits of their employee population without going through a full-blown Health-Risk Assessment,. We thought this was a great idea. Weve just launched Questions. Questions gives wellness admins the ability to see inside their employees, to accurately map employee habits that effect health and wellness, and to craft a wellness strategy that works for each individual company. We call the Questions feature an HRA lite because it gives our clients the power of the HRA, without the cost or hassle.
More about HRAs: Many companies launch their wellness program with an HRA, or a Health Risk Assessment. But lets face it: HRAs are typically long questionnaires that are annoying to fill out, dont provide any real wellness value, and, at up to $40 a pop, burn through wellness dollars faster than you can say health.
The true value of HRAs lie in their ability to accurately map a population. If your employee population tends toward obesity, which is a leading predictor of diabetes and heart disease, you need to know that. If your population, on the other hand, is young and active, you need to know that, too. The real value of the HRA is to help the wellness administrator craft a wellness strategy that works for her population.
How the Questions feature works: Its easy. From the admin pane of your Walker Tracker account, just type the question you want to ask. You can make the question required before users continue to their account, or you can set the question as part of account registration. You can even assign points for answering it, if you use our points system. Questions and answers are logged into the account information download, so you can measure a baseline, progress, and program-end status.
Questions is our answer to the HRA. Give it a try and let us know how it goes!