Extend your reach with personal health programs
Healthwise Learn To Earn engages people with action-oriented health courses. The courses include tracks that focus on people’s specific goals, motivations, needs, and behaviors. Individuals choose the tracks they need, and get information tailored to their personal preferences. These automated health programs provide a cost-effective way for you to support people who:
- Are managing chronic or high-risk conditions, including asthma, CAD, diabetes, and depression.
- Want to reach a healthy weight or stop smoking.
- Aren’t being reached today, or who have health conditions not covered by your existing programs.
Deliver trusted health content in refreshing, engaging ways
Your health coaches can enroll people in automated health programs by prescribing the programs through your care management system. You can enroll people as part of your incentive program, through your HRA, or through other system triggers. And you can let people sign up on their own through your portal or PHR.
Once people are enrolled in Learn To Earn, they can choose the education track that they most identify with. Within each track, members progress through short, engaging lessons that teach key learning objectives by using:
- Online articles with useful tips and features.
- Personal stories about people with similar health issues.
- Multimedia videos that explain skills for self-management.
- Targeted information, decision aids, quizzes, and other tools.
Learn to Earn measures member progress and completion of the health courses and then reports back to your system. Learn To Earn can easily integrate into your incentives systems so you can reward member performance.
Grab their attention with the right information
Even though people might share a health condition or lifestyle issue, their experiences with the condition are different. Learn To Earn recognizes that people need information tailored to their specific circumstances.
Healthwise uses a five-step process based on mental models and personas to create each Learn To Earn course. We bring together findings from user interviews, apply behavior change science, and generate tailored content to make sure we’re engaging people with just the information they need.
When more people get tailored information that they need, they’re more likely to take steps to manage their health—and that makes it easier for you to keep your population healthy, your costs low, and your standing high with HEDIS and other quality measures.
Promote shared decision making with the leading interactive decision aids
Provide step-by-step decision aids to help people make preference-sensitive care decisions. Healthwise Shared Decision Points guide people through understanding their choices, comparing risks versus benefits, expressing their preferences, and making a decision that’s right for them. This effective new approach to shared decision making covers decisions like:
- Surgeries. Should I have surgery for herniated disc? Should I have knee replacement surgery?
- Medical Tests. Should I have an angiogram? Should I have an MRI for low back pain?
- Medicines. Should I take allergy shots? Should I take statins for high cholesterol?
- Health Issues. Should I get a pacemaker? Should I move my loved one into long-term care after a stroke?
At the end of every Shared Decision Point, people receive a summary that they can review with their doctor. This summary is also available for your organization.
Gain valuable insight on decisions
Shared Decision Points can be used wherever people are making decisions about their care:
- Your health coaches can prescribe them to members based on information they learn over the phone.
- Physicians can prescribe them to patients as part of their shared decision-making process.
- Your organization can target Shared Decision Points to people based on triggers from your system when your data shows that they may be considering a decision and could be helped with a decision aid.
- You can also include these decision aids on your website for people who are making preference-sensitive care decisions.
Shared Decision Points record each person’s answers to give you an early view into people’s preferences and values. Your organization can use this information to tailor follow-up support for the decision being made.
Engage people with proven consumer decision aids
Healthwise Shared Decision Points are informed by the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS). They use the perfect combination of consumer-centered design and evidence-based medicine to deliver support that people can trust.
When people use decision aids, they are more likely to choose more conservative, less invasive therapies, without affecting health outcomes. Improve quality, reduce costs, and help people when they need it most with the first decision aids to proactively inform your organization on people’s preferences and values.