Health and Productivity Assessment (HPA)
Alere’s proprietary, fully-integrated Health and Productivity Assessment (HPA) assesses the health risks of broad populations. Available in English and Spanish, this easy-to-use, evidence-based tool helps you understand the health risk demographics of your population. With this knowledge, you can target programs and services to address the needs and improve the health and productivity of your population, and ultimately lower your healthcare costs.
What sets the HPA apart from traditional health risk assessments is its ability to leverage its technology platform to deliver personalized interventions to reduce health risks. Upon completion of the assessment, your participants access tailored behavior-change programs designed to address their risk factors. In this way, the system provides relevant programs and services at the “teachable moment” when individuals are most aware of their health.
Why Choose the HPA over a Traditional HRA?
Cutting-Edge Technology
- Customization: Questions and messaging can be customized based on specific risk factors of the population.
- Integration: Single sign-on allows for seamless integration with existing programs.
Market-Leading Content
- Ease-of-Use: Clear, engaging structure motivates users to learn more about their health.
- Smart System: Algorithms and branching logic bring users to appropriate interventions.
- Evidence-Based Programming: Developed and reviewed by thought leaders in behavioral health strategies.
- Targeted Interventions: High-risk users are identified and targeted for appropriate interventions including disease management and personal coaching.
- Action Plan: Upon completion of the Assessment, users receive an Action Plan with recommended programs to help manage their most pressing risk factors.
The Health and Productivity Assessment uses nationally-accepted criteria for risk identification to stratify each key health factor into risk levels. Biometric values and readiness to change are also captured and used to customize the Action Plan.
The HPA is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive view of their health. This includes describing potential health risks, guiding them to a personalized plan of action, and providing tips, resources and programs designed to change at-risk behaviors.
Study Links Health
and Productivity
Health-related productivity losses combined with direct medical spending were found to cost $4 to every $1 of direct medical expenses in the study “Health and Productivity as a Business Strategy,” published in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM). Learn more.
What’s Driving Participation in HRAs?
According to a study published in August 2008, the top factors are the monetary value of incentives, strong, effective communications and organizational commitment. The study, “Incentives and Other Factors Associated with Employee Participation in Health Risk Assessments,” was published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.