Health Risk Assessment (HRA)
Paper Based
Wellsource offers a variety of paper-based HRAs, some of which can be used in conjunction with our online products described below.
Personal Wellness Profile™ (PWP)
The award-winning Personal Wellness Profile TM (PWP) is our most popular and comprehensive health assessment tool. It is a general health assessment and profiling application for proactive population management, and is available in both online and desktop versions. The PWP system provides you with the power to assess health risk, target specific groups, track progress, and evaluate cost-benefit. Thousands of organizations have used the Wellsource® PWP desktop assessment for successful proactive population health management.
PWP Benefits
- Target specific groups for direct marketing efforts
- Multiple, condition-specific sort and query functions
- Tailored physician summary reports
- Configurable individual and group progress reports
- Multiple, individual, and group reporting configurations
Health Risk Categories Assessed
PWP identifies numerous health risk categories, including:
- High Blood Pressure
- High risk Lipids
- High risk Blood Sugar/diabetes
- Smoking
- High weight (BMI, Waist Girth or Percent fat)
- Depression
- Stress
- Suicide
- Poor dietary habits
- High cancer risk
- High coronary risk
- Safety risks (seat belt use, drinking and driving, lifting technique)
- Low fitness/sedentary status
- Back/body pain
- Pregnancy
- Dental care
- Preventive exams
- Sexual disease potential (PWP Comprehensive Plus Edition only)
PWP Operation
The PWP health risk assessment system is available in the Comprehensive Plus Edition, Concise Plus Edition, and special populations that include, Senior, Teen, Spanish, Spiritual, and French-Canadian.
PWP Comprehensive Plus provides a thorough wellness-based health assessment addressing all major lifestyle factors, personal and family history, symptoms, functional health status and quality of life, health interests, readiness to change, and self-efficacy. Participants complete a 75-question questionnaire in 25 to 45 minutes, not including 30 optional clinical and fitness test data such as blood pressure, lipid values, glucose, PSA, body fat, and others that determines current health status. Extensive personal, aggregate, and administrative summary reports can be produced with virtually unlimited selection criteria for targeting and subgroup outcomes analysis. Assessment data is acquired through paper and pencil questionnaires that are scored by an OpScan® scanner and then placed into the PWP system for data mining and report generation.
PWP Concise Plus is a condensed version of the Comprehensive Plus, and is used in settings where a shorter, simpler questionnaire is important. The Concise Plus is used most frequently by managed care organizations with new enrollees and returning members in mail-based contact to collect health risk information for targeted follow-up programs. The data produced by the Concise Plus also assists in the development of lifestyle improvement programs, health enhancement, and prevention services to address NCQA quality criteria.
Special Populations
Wellsource understands that a general population assessment is sufficient in many cases, although recent health findings have motivated us to develop more specialized assessment systems including the Teen, Senior, Spanish, Spiritual, and French-Canadian Editions. Each of these special population editions maximizes program efforts by scientifically identifying those participants that are most likely to take an interest in improving their health.
Reporting Capabilities
- Health Professional Summary - Provides a one-page profile of risk factors, clinical values, and lifestyle behaviours.
- Executive Summary - Priorities risk factors and recommendations for health improvement programs based on the needs of the group.
- Economic Impact Report - Your average medical claims cost per employee is determined and compared to realistic goals for your group.
- Group Summary - Provides graphical representation for nearly every risk factor allowing you to easily view and fine-tune your wellness efforts.
Progress/Trend Report
Illustrates the impact of your wellness efforts by showing changes and improvements from previous testing periods. These are available for both individual and group reports.