HealthInsight and HealthMedia join to deliver Internet-based Digital Coaching solutions

HealthInsight, provider of the only value-based health care administration platform, today announced a partnership with HealthMedia, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, to deliver Internet-based Digital Coaching™ solutions focused on lifestyle and behavioral change. HealthInsight offers a value-based analytics tool that enables the collection and review of health insurance claim data and creates preventive and condition-specific health actions unique to the individual. The partnership enables HealthInsight to provide a cost-effective total population management solution that targets the health management of all individuals along the health care continuum.

HealthMedia’s interactive online coaching combines proprietary technology and advanced behavioral science to deliver highly personalized individual plans and advice that address an individual’s specific motivations and barriers to success.

“Our partnership with HealthInsight will enable employers to leverage the proven, bottom-line benefits of one-on-one health coaching across their entire population,” said HealthMedia President, Ted Dacko. “This type of program will ultimately enhance wellness and address chronic conditions as well as mental health issues such as depression, stress, insomnia and binge eating.”

HealthInsight provides a comprehensive population risk analysis that identifies markers for potential increases in company health costs and will help recommend health actions to minimize these costs. These markers include those individuals at risk for heart disease, cancer, asthma and diabetes, as well as those members who have few or no healthcare claims because they are not participating in routine annual health screenings. HealthInsight’s proprietary technology is able to generate preventive and condition-specific health actions based on an individual’s unique health status. HealthMedia will provide the online coaching solution focused on behavior change once HealthInsight identifies the health actions.

“It’s clear from recent remarks from President Obama and speaking with our current customers that value-based health programs are the wave of the future,” said Janice Rahm, executive vice president, HealthInsight. “By partnering with HealthMedia, we’re now able to provide our customers with the best value-based plan design administration and personalized health coaching program currently available.”