HRA
A health risk assessment (also known as a health risk appraisal) is an instrument used to collect health information, typically coupled with a process that includes biometric testing to assess an individual's health status, risks, and habits.
The Questionnaire: Many different HRA tools exist, some more expansive than others.
Questionnaire that should be considered should include:
Immunize
Immunization is a way of protecting against serious diseases. Once we have been immunized, our bodies are better able to fight these diseases if we come into contact with them.
Immunization is one of the biggest health successes of the last century. Some diseases that are caused by viruses can't be cured with antibiotics. The only way to control them is by immunization.
Benefits for us all
Mindspark(wellness of mind)
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
According to the World Health Organization, mental wellness is defined as “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.”
Mental health refers to our emotional and psychological state, our social well–being and how we feel about ourselves and interact with others. Mental health is not the same as mental illness, although poor mental health can lead to mental and physical illnesses.
Fitness
We all know that exercise is good for us. But it does more than just improve our physical fitness. It also reduces our risk of getting many diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes. It helps reduce stress, helps us sleep better, and it improves our mental health. Because it does so much for us, it is important to exercise no matter what age you are. A lifelong exercise program is the surest way to help us live and thrive into old age.
Path to Improved Health
Exercise is good for you no matter how old you are. It helps children function better in school. It helps boost brain power as you age. It helps prevent falling when you are older. There is a place for exercise at every stage of a person’s life.
Fitness is a path to Improved Health.
Nutrition
Although some nutritional principles stay the same throughout life (eat small amounts several times a day, and enjoy a variety of fruits and vegetables), certain phases of life require different nutritional priorities. Babies have no teeth so they can't eat solids, and their developing brains require fat and cholesterol. Teenage girls and boys need different amounts of iron and protein, and aging adults usually need to curtail calorie consumption while making sure to get plenty of fiber, water, and nutrient-rich foods.
Both men and women in their 20s are at their critical times, as far as nutrition is concerned; here the stage is being set for the rest of your life. This is the last decade where you can still build new bone, and the hormones that allow you to build new muscle are at their peak. To maximize this decade, it's critical to eat plenty of highly nutrient foods, especially those containing calcium, protein, and iron (most important for women).
Keeping your weight in check is important at any age, but it can become more challenging in your 50s and beyond. As muscle mass naturally declines with age, it brings with it a drop in your daily calorie requirements. If you don’t adjust your intake accordingly, your weight can really creep up. For women, this is the decade that can bring the changes associated with menopause—including weight gain around the midsection, mood swings and poor sleep quality.
Diagnostics
In this fast-paced life, where we are always on the go, we hardly spare any time for ourselves – to review our health condition, check whether or not we are eating properly, taking ample amount of sleep, exercising regularly, and so on. While we aren’t unaware of the fact that all these petty things are what exactly govern our lives and help us stay fit and healthy, we pay the least attention to our condition, until we’ve run out of time. We fall sick only to discover, we’ve been lethargic and ignorant about our health issues we already knew were brewing since a long time.
This is precisely the reason why many organizations, all across the globe, make it mandatory for their employees it get a health checkup done every now and then, or educate their workforce about its importance, to ensure their masses stay fit and healthy and work effectively and efficiently, adding to the overall profitability of the organization.
E - Consulting
Advantages of Using an Online Doctor Service
E - Pharmacy
An e-pharmacy is like your Flipkart or Amazon for medicines, which means that it is a one-stop online portal where a person can seek medical advice through online consultation, order prescription drugs after duly sharing a copy of the prescription, access OTC health products, and in some cases, even order relevant health check up tests and receive all of these services at their doorstep. Just like other e-commerce portals, online pharmacies offer good discounts and cash back on all services offered.
Benefits of E-Pharmacies:
Stress Managers
E-therapy delivers maximum impact with minimal cost and yet it is still seldom used and poorly understood. If health professionals want to make a positive impact on mental health care, this needs to change. Good quality e-therapy is readily available and advantages of implementing are many, including:
Bottom line: E-therapy can deliver maximum impact for minimal cost, but the best choice is guided therapy according to research. Studies have shown that e-therapy is effective for a wide variety of psychological and emotional needs and can demonstrably improve the outcome of treatment over medication alone.
Studies have shown its effectiveness for everything from depression and anxiety to eating disorders, ADHD and ASD support, and stress-reduction. It may sound cutting-edge today, but the prediction is it will become the wave of the future as people who were outside of the usual treatment areas embrace an opportunity to improve their mental health and emotional well-being.
Health Talks
The stress level in today’s corporate world is causing many health troubles amongst the employees. In the past few years, the deadlines have shrunk to a point where there is no room for personal time in the employee’s life. This overwhelming situation is one of the major causes of non-communicable diseases like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Health and Wellness Talks, which enable the employees to get back on the track on a healthy lifestyle. These talks or sessions are available for companies, educational institutes, non-profit organizations and other institutes as well.
The main goal of these sessions is to educate, motivate, empower and enlighten the employees as well as the management of the companies about the health challenges they could face in their daily lives.
The Health and Wellness talks include sessions about the consciousness of the employees’ overall health and physical fitness, which equates to lesser absenteeism and better productivity. It helps in reducing stress and allows the employees to become more creative with the work.
Every day we make 100s of different choices, which impact our daily life and even the future. A small mistake or wrong step taken towards an unhealthy lifestyle can have catastrophic results in the longer run. It is essential for the employees to understand that they have to find some time for themselves so that they can live a longer and healthier life. With the reduced stress, the employees and the management can produce better results even in the shorter span of time
Health Bot
In today’s world, chatbots are more and more adopted by the healthcare industry to personalize the interaction with its customers. That’s why they are also known as “Digital Personal Assistants.”
Healthcare chatbots are actively used by physicians, patients, and their families as well. The bots also ensure that the patient’s health is well managed and organized, and they can assist in an emergency like situations as well by offering consultation on the medical issues which arise suddenly.
Instead of contacting a hospital, healthcare chatbots can anytime assist the patients. To answer the questions they’re asked, they rely on knowledge management servers.
Most common uses of Healthcare Chatbots:
REPORTS & ANALYTICS
“Data analytics” is something of a buzzword. It is often associated with the world outside of health care. Everyone understands the importance of numbers. But understanding how they apply to your health plan and the actions they suggest is the true story.
Collecting data is easy. It’s what you do with the data that truly counts. Utilizing and creating a strategy around those numbers is what separates a data analytics team from a data collections team. The reports and numbers generated by analytic experts help bring clarity to benefit designs and decisions.
Employers can begin tailoring their benefit strategies so they not only meet the needs of their workforce today, but create long-term solutions that mitigate future risk.
The data is then used as the “proof in the pudding” to enhance employee engagement, manage cost savings and measure ROI.
Reporting and Data Analytics leads to greater understanding of the true expenses within your health plan, the potential risk among your members, and the overall value of your wellness strategy. When recognized early on the potential of data analytics on health plans, and has built an entire team dedicated to helping our clients manage claims and improve health, now and into the future.