Personal Health and Wellness

Is personal health and wellness part of your strategy? Does corporate wellness stop when your employees leave the office?

Give Your Employees Personal Health and Wellness Continuity
If employees don’t have the tools to pursue wellness on a personal level, then it becomes easy for them to “fall off the wagon” and slide back into a less healthy lifestyle.

Your corporate wellness program coordinators should have “vacation wellness” as part of their job scope. In other words, you don’t want corporate wellness to stop at the boundaries of the corporate campus. Instead, integrate personal health and wellness with your employee wellness programs.

For example, what if Human Resources were to give out a personal health and wellness wallet card whenever someone goes on vacation or sabbatical? With some card stock and a small laminator, these cards could be easily customized to remind the employee of the employee wellness programs that he or she is currently participating in, making it easier for them to continue with their health and wellness on a personal level when away from the familiar environs of the office.

This simple act shows that their employer is just as invested in their personal health and wellness as they are. What do you think?

Keeping the New Year resolution

Was employee health & wellness on your company’s new year’s resolutions list? Here we are a little over midway into the fourth month of 2008, the time when resolutions start to falter if they haven’t lost momentum completely. Has your employee wellness resolution fallen by the wayside? If so, there are still ways to get back on track.

Healthizen has launched its corporate membership program (CMP) to help organizations keep the workplace healthy. Apart from creating individually personalized health profiles, the Healthizen platform helps organizations structure their workplace wellness programs by providing metadata reports and recommendations based on employee health concerns.

Did you want to facilitate a stress management workshop for your employees? How can you be sure that stress is the top-most concern of your employees?
In the absence of hard data, such decisions are always difficult to make. With the personalized health profiles of each employee on Healthizen , it is now easy to reconstruct hypotheses and draw conclusions.

Health is a prime concern for a lot of employers, what with rising premia, increasing abseenteeism and presenteeism, and increasing lifestyle-related diseases and we have had reasonable success with our CMP program.

What are your views on employee health and wellness? Does your organization care for you?

New User Interface – Healthizen

Here is a sneek peak into our new Home Page… Tell us if you like it, tell us if you don’t!

One of the feedback we got from our regular users was that the home page had a long scroll making it difficult to navigate the content at the end of the page. Taking that into account, and the site navigability and usability issues, we have come up with this –

We hope you find it more useful. Cheers to good health!

5 ways to help your doctor help you!

CNN Medical News has a regular feature called “Empowered Patient”. This one lists down five things you can do to make your doctor’s life easier, and hence yours.

So here are the five things -

1. Bring in a list of medications
2. Come armed with your personal health history
3. Bring in your recent test results and doctors’ notes
4. Make a list of your concerns
5. Don’t ask your doctor insurance questions

Now, wait a minute. Shouldn’t a doctor have everything — reports from other physicians, lab test results — right there? Why is it the patient’s responsibility to bring them in?

It’s true: In an ideal world, a doctor would have your health history, the medications you’re taking and lab results right in front of him. But we live in reality, and the reality is that these things are often lost in a mound of paperwork. So make sure you have your past records and lab results accessible to your doctor – this way, you help your doctor help you.

We, at Healthizen can help you get all this organized! So, be fast and change your lifestyle by maintaining a personal health diary.