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Employee Wellness Program Tracks, Understands and Acts

Jawbone has launched an employee wellness program, called Up for Groups, which is designed for any group with 10 or more participants. Until now, Jawbone has been a direct to consumer company with various devices including wristworn trackers UP24 and UP3 as well as clip-on tracker UP Move.

Up for Groups, Jawbone Wellness and Platform Group Manager Andrew Rosenthal explains in a blog post, is built on the company's three-part behavior change framework: track, understand, and act. As participants in a group work on improving their sleep and activity levels, the group-assigned "administrators" can view their progress via a dashboard that displays data from the past day, week, or month.. From there, administrators can use their dashboard send messages and nudges to the participants' in-app feeds.

"For example, an administrator could visit the steps page to see that there is a lull in activity around 3 pm on Thursdays and send a message to the group encouraging them to take a walking meeting every Thursday at that time," Rosenthal said.

Jawbone aims to maintain a level of privacy, as well. All data that organizers see is anonymous unless a participant grants the organizer permission to see activity and steps. Additionally, the organizers' dashboard does not display data unless at least five participants are syncing step or sleep data simultaneously.

Source: Aditi Pai MobiHealthNews

Baseline Medical enjoys bringing hospital quality state-of-the-art vascular ultrasound into the workplace and health care office. Working with business owners, medical providers and human resources, employees and patients have an opportunity to participate in proactive measures for their health. Employers see the merit in protecting their staff and professionals protecting their patients by having an event onsite for heart disease and stroke risk instead of enduring heart attacks and these "brain drains". Heart disease is the #1 killer and stroke is the #1 disabler and the reason why employees may never return to work. Baseline Medical screenings send a powerful message to help employers and medical professionals avoid catastrophic loss with staff and patients.

Screening events administered by Baseline Medical have an advantage over the other testing companies because results are provided in just 10 minutes to each participant. Waiting a few weeks or even a few days for results could be too long. Baseline Medical has physicians and surgeons on the Medical Advisory Board as well as educators and authors who are expert resources for referral and consult. They support the advance warning that screenings provide. Currently many folks first learn about their own risk with symptoms in their car or the rear of an ambulance - not the best place to find out.

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