THE 10 MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS About Wellsource® Health Risk Assessments

Whether you’re a health plan, hospital system, wellness organization, or employer of choice, a health risk assessment (HRA) is the first step in understanding your population. Organizations that offer HRAs to their population typically see benefits that include higher employee productivity due to reduced presenteeism and absenteeism, more accurate information to inform wellness program decisions, and lower healthcare costs.

Why? Because understanding your population is the best way to deliver wellness programs that speak to each individual’s unique lifestyle habits, change readiness, and more.

When individuals in your population complete an assessment, they get a snapshot of their risk for things like diabetes, cancer, and obesity. This window into their future health can give them exactly the push they need to begin making simple changes to their daily habits to prevent chronic disease. Healthier behaviors lead to healthier lives.

While HRAs are not diagnostic tools they can help individuals prevent diseases by alerting them to their risk factors or making them aware that they’ve missed

a recommended screening. This, in turn, should lead to better future health and cost savings for both the individual and the provider.

At Wellsource, we’ve got four decades of experience under our belt. In 1972 our founder, Dr. Don Hall, wrote an algebraic equation that helped to assess individual

health. Since then we’ve been building on his initial concept as we develop comprehensive, evidence-based, and scientifically valid HRAs. We’ve worked

hard to create a user experience that’s engaging and user-friendly while refusing to compromise on our data-driven mission. As a result, our HRA is backed

by high-quality data and provides users with an engaging experience that’s easy to navigate, simple to understand, and quick to complete.

With all of that said, many people aren’t fully aware of what an HRA is or what the benefits are.