<< back to Corporate Announcements
Resolution Health Introduces Women’s Health and Wellness Action Campaign
Personalized, Interactive, Multimedia Program to Increase Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Rates
COLUMBIA, Md. – August 12, 2008 – Resolution Health, Inc., an industry-leading personal health care guidance company, today announced the launch of their Women’s Health and Wellness Action Campaign. This innovative member outreach program is designed to help increase the prevention and early detection of breast and cervical cancers in women. It offers an award-winning, personalized and interactive approach to reach and engage out-of-compliance individuals and is available to all health benefit plans to offer to their members.
Resolution Health’s
comprehensive program begins with claims analysis to identify health
plan members who have not undergone recommended mammogram or cervical
cancer screenings. The Action Campaign reaches out to members on behalf
of their health plan using phone-based, speech-enabled technology
provided by Eliza Corporation. These interactive calls engage the
member in conversation about the importance of preventive cancer
screenings and assess and address a member’s planned behavior regarding
these screenings – including any potential barriers to have the tests.
Based upon a member’s spoken responses, education and support follow-up
is offered.
These member responses trigger a personalized follow-up
mailing, providing actionable information on the importance of these
screenings and addressing personal barriers to healthy behavior
identified during the phone call. Depending upon a health plan’s
benefit design, the mailing may also include a gift card incentive
offer to reward members who complete the recommended procedures. The
use of an incentive complements this member communication to drive
behavioral change toward healthy behavior. This aspect of the program
is managed by IncentOne, a leading provider of integrated incentive
solutions.
“The Women’s Health and Wellness Action Campaign uses an
integrated and interactive approach toward personal guidance and
motivation,” said Earl P. Steinberg, MD, MPP, president and CEO of
Resolution Health. “It combines our expertise in data analytics,
behavioral science and personalized messaging; and demonstrates our
commitment to improving health and wellness for each plan member.”
The
Women’s Health and Wellness Action Campaign aims to improve compliance
with Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®)
measures, which are used to assess individual health plan’s performance
on important dimensions of care and service. Resolution Health has
conducted a variety of successful outreach campaigns, achieving
impressive compliance improvement results for breast and cervical
cancer screenings. In fact, Resolution Health piloted a similar,
award-winning preventive health program with Horizon Blue Cross Blue
Shield of New Jersey in 2006, partnering with Eliza Corporation and
IncentOne. The program received the “Best Use of Technology to Promote
Patient Care” award from the Consumer Directed Health Care
Conference/National Health, Wellness, Prevention & Fitness
Congress.
About Resolution Health, Inc. Resolution Health, Inc. is a
leading data analytics-driven personal health care guidance company.
Its services help improve the quality, coordination and safety of
health care, enhance communications between patients and their
physicians, and reduce medical costs. Resolution Health serves health
plans, self-insured employers, unions, third-party administrators,
disease management firms and pharmacy benefits managers. Resolution
Health is an operating subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc. Visit
www.resolutionhealth.com.
About WellPoint, Inc. WellPoint, Inc.
(NYSE:WLP) is the largest health benefits company in terms of medical
membership in the United States. WellPoint is an independent licensee
of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and serves its members as
the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield
licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine,
Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New
Hampshire, New York (as Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield in 10 New York
City metropolitan and surrounding counties and as Empire Blue Cross or
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield in selected upstate counties only), Ohio,
Virginia (excluding the city of Fairfax, the town of Vienna and the
area east of State Route 123), Wisconsin; and through UniCare.
Additional information about WellPoint is available at
www.wellpoint.com.
About Eliza Corporation Eliza Corporation is the leading provider of innovative, effective healthcare communications. Every day, our tailored interactions connect millions of people with timely, personally relevant information that drives healthier behavior. Each Eliza program is powered by our patented speech recognition technology, rich web and multi-media delivery platform, proven communications methodologies, and sophisticated data analytics. Our integrated communication strategies consistently yield the best outcomes in the industry in terms of improved engagement, health and wellness measures, and financial savings. Eliza’s clients include the nation’s leading health plans, disease management firms, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy benefit managers, and employers. The results of our programs have been recognized by organizations including the Centers for Prevention and Disease Control, the BlueCross BlueShield Association, The Consumer Directed Health Care Congress, and Harvard Medical School. For more information, please visit www.elizacorp.com or call 978-921-2700.
About IncentOne IncentOne provides integrated
incentive solutions to employers, health plans and partners, from small
businesses to the FORTUNE® 500, including half of the FORTUNE® 50.
IncentOne’s incentive technology solutions provide the tools to drive
health care cost reduction and productivity improvement. Read its
recent issue brief, The Art and Science of Health Incentives, at
www.IncentOne.com/IssueBrief. For more information, please visit
www.IncentOne.com
