Corporate Wellness Apps and Software

Wellness challenges and activities are an integral and vital part of almost all the employee wellness programs. Apart from being one of the effective employee engagement strategies, wellness challenges also help in building long-term behavior modification changes. Wellness360 offers wellness challenges that focus on achieving holistic wellness, and our wellness platforms support all the required needs.

Apart from having enough wellness challenges templates to support individual and team activities, make sure your corporate wellness technology also drives employee engagement by supporting modules like –

• Gamification
• Data Integration
• Activity Tracking
• Rewards and Incentives
• Personalization

Communication between the employees and employers throughout the wellness program, or otherwise is crucial. It not only boosts employee engagement rates, but also improves the trust factor and loyalty of the workforce towards their employers. Your wellness platform should incorporate wellness technology that allows easy communication and interaction between the administrators and participants. Apart from regular communication, it is important to interact through multiple modes to ensure the message reaches all the employees on time.

• Notifications – To notify employees about the wellness program, registration, or any upcoming events. It can either be via emails or as announcements on the wellness platform.
• Push Notifications – Your wellness programming can be set to send push notifications to the employees on the platform, emails, or any place they are available the most. Be it a health coach appointment or a reminder to register for an upcoming event, this communication mode is widely preferred.
• Announcements –Typically displayed on the dashboard of the user wellness platform, announcements are a great way of communicating with the employees about any forthcoming events, challenges, or activities.
• Social Networking –Be it in the workplace internal messenger or on the social media handles of the employees, social networking is an efficient wellness technology to communicate with the employees.

Health Risk Assessments (HRA) and Biometric Screenings are crucial onboarding activities of a well-planned employee wellness program. They help in identifying potential health risks at an early stage, allowing effective designing of the wellness program modules accordingly and reduce healthcare costs considerably. Wellness platforms must be built with tools that allow

• The administrators to create assessment questionnaires
• The administrators to schedule screenings
• The users to give their input for the health risk assessments
• The users to schedule screening appointments
• The administrators to send reminders via email notifications, announcements, or push notifications to the users about the impending assessments or upcoming screenings.

Apart from allowing and reminding the users to take the assessments and screenings, the wellness programming should also allow logging, storing, and editing the biometrics data, including – height, weight, BMI, activity log, sleep minutes, blood pressure, blood glucose levels, and more. Also, the corporate wellness technology used for the wellness portal should support third-party integration of files and reports from the screening vendors, health coaches, and other file-feeds relevant to employee health and wellness.

Health and wellness coaching has become a vital part of modern corporate wellness programs. Ideally, health coaching modules involve health coach professionals who help the employees to set realistic goals, plan their wellness journey, and guide them through it. The health coaching can either be done in-person or virtually.

With the right wellness technology, health coaching can be an effective employee engagement strategy and efficiently improve employee health and wellness. Typically, health coaches are assigned with independent wellness portals through which they can –

• Schedule appointments
• Interact with the employees
• Hold discussions
• Review reports
• Track the outcomes

Education is a key component of all health and wellness programs. When the employees are well informed and educated about the underlying health risks and how to manage them, they can make better decisions to bring positive changes. The online educational resources are ideally self-directed that can be accessed on the wellness platform. Your corporate wellness technology must support and deliver all the health and wellness educational resources in various forms, including –

• Online resources –Third-party educational resources can be of great help. You can collaborate with vendors who provide online educational resources through videos, articles, or other media-based modes, integrate your wellness platform with their resources, and make it easily accessible to the employees from their user portals. Wellness360 offers online resources from SelfHelpWorks, through which, employees can choose the specific online course relevant to their health and wellness needs, and sign up for it.
• In-House Content –In addition to the third-party online resources, many employers also offer in-house health and wellness content, specifically created to meet the unique demands and requirements of the workforce. Talk to the wellness vendor and create flexible and scalable in-house content using the latest wellness technology.

Wellness incentive programs have been proven to be successful employee engagement strategies. Apart from motivating the employees to participate, engage, and reach their wellness goals, offering the right incentives will also be of significant financial help in many ways. However, for the incentive programs to be successful, they need to be devised with the right set of tools and wellness technology, through which employees can earn rewards, track, and redeem them. The administrators can choose to set the reward campaigns by considering various factors, like –

• Activity-based or outcome-based
• Maximum redemption points
• e-Gift cards
• Merchandise offers
• HSA Contributions
• Premium discounts

Reporting, analytics, and metrics help in assessing the progress of the entire employee wellness program. They are a crucial element of the applied corporate wellness technology to understand how the employees are performing, the engagement rates, compare estimated and resultant outcomes, and complete data segregation based on various aspects. Be it the data from third-party vendors, device integration reports, individual or aggregate user reports, performance measures, ROI, and overall administrative dashboard reports – make sure your wellness platform is equipped with the right wellness technology to provide all the reports and metrics you need to assess and analyze the wellness program.

Using the right metrics with advanced wellness technology is crucial to analyze your wellness program. Ideally, ROI, VOI, or a combination of both the counts is used to measure your wellness technology and the overall wellness program outcomes. To start with, most employers may prefer using VOI as the choice of measuring outcomes, and as the program grows with additional modules, you can switch to ROI or both.

ROI helps you measure – time resources, user experience, service limitations, program shortcomings, scalability, hard costs, and other factors that are usually considered pain points of the program. VOI measures – employee engagement, workplace culture, burnout, and other factors affecting the running of the business. Choose what you need to evaluate and analyze, and use relevant corporate wellness technology and its elements to measure the ROI, VOI, or both.

The corporate wellness market is steadily growing, and new inventions are blooming in the market constantly. Be it the new fitness devices or wellness apps for device and app integration, the Application Programming Interface (API’s), or single-sign-on (SSO), an advanced wellness platform must be flexible enough to accommodate the latest corporate wellness technology that supports the emerging trends. It is about making it easy for the employees to engage, participate, log their details, track, and monitor the progress.

Wellness platforms manage all the health, personal, and confidential data that need to be handled and managed with utmost privacy and security. However, despite taking care, there are high chances of risks and vulnerabilities due to – network issues, insecure servers, portal logins, third-party integrations, internal breaches, or external attachments. HIPAA or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act sets the regulations to protect the privacy of the users in the USA, and it is mandatory that your wellness technology is compliant with the HIPAA regulations and employee privacy laws.