Apr 14
CIGNA’s “Wellness Score” Forecasts Health Risks
What if you knew that the things you’re doing are more likely to result in health risks and health care expenses down the road? Would you change your lifestyle? CIGNA developed an online questionnaire that will assess your health and predict what effects your current lifestyle will have on your future health.
The system, called the Trend Management System, analyzes an individual’s responses and clusters them into four main categories: low risk, risk-taking, biometric and psychological. It is programmed to recognize 34 dangerous risk combinations and predict – with an accuracy rating of 83 percent – how likely an individual is to face health problems that could lead to high health care costs in the next few years.
What is the likelihood that you would change your behavior if you knew your health risks? According to a CIGNA survey1, (http://newsroom.cigna.com/images/56/HRA Survey Brief.ppt), eighty-seven percent of survey respondents said they would value getting information that can predict risk for developing health problems, and 94 percent said they would be motivated to make healthy lifestyle changes if the assessment showed they were at medium or high risk for developing health problems.
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