Consulting Services

ConsultingHealth Promotion Solutions is dedicated to meeting the specific needs of our clients while keeping your budget in mind.  Let us put our expertise to work in designing a customized program that addresses your Health Promotion goals and metrics for success.  We have a network of award-winning consultants with decades of experience in the following areas:


Health Coaching and Lifestyle Management
Health Coaching provides personalized health education, support and encouragement to successfully engage individuals to adopt healthy lifestyle habits. Health Coaching is recognized as a way to help individuals reduce their risk for chronic disease or effectively manage their chronic conditions.  Effective health coaching includes specific theory-based intervention strategies and communication skills that allow medical and allied health professionals to accept the individual’s path to change by applying motivational interviewing strategies, resulting in lasting lifestyle changes.

We design customized health coaching programs to effectively engage individuals in the management of their own health.  Individuals learn to set goals and manage their health by eating healthier, quitting tobacco, increasing their activity levels, and managing stress.  These behavior modifications result in:

 

We offer expertise in designing and implementing an effective Health Coaching program which can be integrated into existing wellness programs including HRAs, biometrics, or disease management initiatives. Our customized Health Coaching solutions – including a combination of onsite, telephonic, and web-based coaching – are designed to maximize participation resulting in positive health and financial outcomes for our clients.

 

Fitness
Our nation’s population is, in large measure, inactive, unfit, and increasingly overweight.  Physical inactivity threatens to reverse the decades-long progress in reducing deaths from cardiovascular diseases.  Ultimately this could have a devastating impact on our national health care budget.  Physical fitness can prevent or treat many chronic health conditions brought on by unhealthy lifestyle or aging.

We can help design and implement a customized fitness program for your organization.  Through the design of workshops focused on fitness alternatives, customized physical activity incentive-based programs, fitness campaigns and online fitness instruction, we motivate your entire organization to get and stay active.

Some of the attributes we incorporate into our consulting services include:

 

Let us help you determine your organizations’ fitness objectives and create a program to achieve your goals.

 

Care Management
The goal of Health Care Management is to help people achieve optimal health and productivity.  Through improved health management, individuals and employers can reduce healthcare costs, effectively manage chronic health conditions, and improve health and work performance.

We work with various organizational types to manage the health and human performance (productivity) of their covered populations and to seek solutions to rising healthcare costs.  Our work includes the design and implementation of promising reward healthcare, or clinically-integrated patient-centered medical home pay-for-outcomes reimbursement models that are considered a viable solution to our nation’s healthcare dilemma.

Our programs support health plans to align with the overall health management strategy.  For example, implementing a high-deductible/Health Savings Account (HSA) plan may encourage more price and quality sensitivity on the part of the employee, while allowing them to be in control of where their healthcare dollars are spent.

Through implementation of programs selected using our expertise, our clients have documented optimal healthcare and financial outcomes in the areas of health and productivity, disability, disease/condition management, and maternal and child health.

We leverage an application that is changing how healthcare management is coordinated and evaluated.  It serves as the information infrastructure that supports patient-centered care coordination, clinical integration, and as an independent auditor of health and productivity management programs to ensure optimal outcomes.  Clients typically receive results that exceed return on investment (ROI) and return on outcomes (ROO) expectations.

 

Biometric Screening
A Biometric Health Screening is critical to the success of any Health Promotion campaign.  Objective clinical data provide the most accurate predictions of individual health risks and help organizations prioritize their health promotion efforts. Onsite biometric screening tests – including a lipid profile, blood pressure, body mass index, and other tests – help to identify a person’s risk of having or developing a chronic disease or condition.  Health screening events are conducted in a variety of settings, including worksites, in retail settings, at health fairs, or other public venues.  Biometric testing is usually combined with a health risk assessment tool and health education to help participants understand their results and motivate them to behavioral change.

Creating and executing a successful biometric screening program can be challenging.  Many factors need to be considered when designing a program, such as corporate culture, size of the organization, demographics, number of locations, number of shifts, privacy concerns, and other related health promotion activities.  We design effective health screening programs that bring awareness to individuals about their health status, drive at-risk individuals to seek medical care, and enroll individuals into health management programs, if appropriate.

In providing a turnkey program, we coordinate all the services that the program requires.  We offer a full array of biometric services, including onsite fingerstick testing, laboratory blood draws, point of care services, and dry chemistry. We effectively customize a screening programs based on your budget that include multiple testing strategies to maximize participation.

Our program management expertise ensures that all we handle personal health information in a HIPAA-compliant manner, provide qualified staff, manage quality controls, adhere to regulations, and handle all logistics in a turnkey manner.  We design reports that enable individuals to take action and provide the organization with an aggregate summary of their population’s health risks.

 

Nutrition
Poor nutrition can have a significant impact on health, causing a variety of health-threatening conditions, including obesity and metabolic syndrome, and such common chronic systemic diseases as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis.  Medical nutrition therapy provided by registered dietitians has been documented to lower healthcare costs for individuals and companies.

We offer design services for corporate nutrition and wellness programs involving individual and group counseling with dieticians and certified medical nutrition therapists.  Our consulting team consists of nutrition and culinary experts, translating the science of nutrition into practical solutions for your organization.  We can help design the following:

 

Through the design of effective nutrition education and counseling, many organizations can make strides to take control of their members’ health to prevent chronic disease.

 

Marketing Support
With healthcare costs skyrocketing, many organizations are looking for proven marketing approaches to encourage their members to take better care of themselves and their health.  It has been established that wellness programs can reduce absenteeism, lower healthcare costs, and increase productivity, but sometimes getting individuals engaged about participating in such programs can be a challenge. In addition, how to effectively implement incentives can be critical to motivate behavioral change and enrollment in worksite wellness programs.

We offer our clients expertise in health promotion marketing and communications.  Improve program impact with customized communications proven to increase engagement and participation through:

 

Data Management
The results of any health promotion program lose significance if they are not measured, analyzed, and communicated to payers properly.

Our comprehensive data analysis software applications generate HIPAA-compliant, de-identified reports to identify trends and predict outcomes for participant groups.  Individual, personalized predictive models can also inform participants of their chronic health risks and provide insight into the modifiable behaviors that can be altered to reduce their risk.

Health Promotion Solutions has a portfolio of unique services and tools to support effective data management and health outcomes.  Using best-in-class applications, we integrate data from various service providers to generate comprehensive data reporting that portrays an overall healthcare picture.  By identifying risks among populations, we can pinpoint areas to address to maximize cost savings.  Longitudinal reports show changes and trends across populations, allowing for program customization to increase ROI.

We also provide electronic personal health record (PHR) storage.  A PHR provides a complete and accurate summary of the health and medical history of an individual by compiling data from multiple sources.  This PHR information is encrypted and stored on our HIPAA-compliant server, and is accessible only to authorized individuals.  Maintaining a current, accessible PHE can help improve the quality of care a patient receives by reducing or eliminating duplicate tests and allowing patients to receive faster, safer treatment and care in an emergency.