challenges | release 2.0 | april 2014

TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY AND IT WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU

In Pursuit of Better

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LET’SBEGINABOUT MELIORA TECHNOLOGY

A successful wellness system isn’t just about spewing out reams of data once or twice a year. It’s about providing tools to encourage participation, deliver actionable information and create significant and quantifiable changes in participants’ behavior.

Put simply, healthy employees are less costly, thanks to lower premiums and reduced health care claims. That’s why for so many companies, making an investment in a wellness program isn’t an unwanted cost center – it’s a welcome source of cost reductions.

That’s why we’ve focused tirelessly on building the industry’s most advanced yet intuitive online dashboard that serves as the heart of your wellness program. It‘s a place for participants to get an easy-to-understand snapshot of their health. A place they’ll find instantly involving and endlessly engaging. A place that encourages then to spend more time on the site, more often – thus increasing the likelihood of a positive change in their overall health.

Best of all, participants can use the dashboard to easily track their health progress. For


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instance, your company may offer employees a discount on their insurance premiums when they earn a designated number of points by taking proactive steps to improve their health. Participants can complete many of those activities right from the dashboard, and they can keep track of their points too, allowing them to get a complete picture of their progress.

Our dashboard maintains a high level of engagement by providing content customized for participants based on the outcomes of their HRAs and screenings. Our

high-quality content comes from a library of thousands of articles by one of the nation’s largest providers of health and wellness information.

Our actions plans help our employers engage their population to gain a high percentage of healthy employees and dependents within their workforce.


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“FEELING HEALTHY AND FEELING GOOD

ABOUT YOURSELF IS NOT A LUXURY - IT’S AN ABSOLUTE

NECESSITY”—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

An effective approach to motivating employees is to deliver individual and team challenges that allow departments and organizational teams to compete in wellness initiatives. Using our individual and team-based capabilities, it is simple to set up teams, post real-time results and manage a team-based competition automatically.


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Almost one-in-four employers (24%) offering

health benefits provide employees with

an opportunity to complete a health risk

assessment. Large firms (200 or more

workers) are more likely than smaller firms

to ask employees to complete a health risk

assessment (55% vs. 23%).

Fifty-five percent of large firms (200 or more

workers) and 26% of smaller firms offering

health benefits report offering biometric

screening to employees. Of these firms, 11%

percent of large firms require employees to

complete a biometric screening to enroll in

the health plan.

Virtually all large employers (200 or more

workers) and most smaller employers offer

at least one wellness program. Seventy-

seven percent of employers offering health

benefits offer at least one of the following

wellness programs in 2013.

WELLNESS PROGRAMSPrograms that help employees identify issues with their health and engage in healthier behavior

54%*

Employers offer Health Risk Assessment

55%*

Employers offer Biometric Screenings

99%*

Employers offer at least one wellness program

*Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) 2013 Employer Benefits Survey


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Individual and team challenges are key modules in a wellness program. Challenges provide employers with potential behavior change along with increasing participation and engagement. Your workforce teams up with coworkers – next door, down the hall or other locations – to compete with results for better nutrition, fitness and weight loss, the ultimate outcome. Having your workforce strive to reach program goals provides an environment for employees to likely succeed to adopting a healthier lifestyle.

Individual & Team Challenges A must have Wellness Program


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Team & Individual Challenges Challenges focus on simple lifestyle changes. You can define the incentive points awarded and the availability of each challenge to tie in with workplace activities. Team challenges allow partici-pant to form teams and work together to reach milestones. Team and challenge blogs, individual and team progress charts, and a team league table encourage healthy competition. Standard challenges are available for the following topics.

• Physical activity• Weight loss• Healthy eating

“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” —William Londen

CHALLENGES INDIVIDUAL & TEAMS


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From the peaceful headwaters in the northern Minnesota woods to the sweeping meanders of the river delta, participants will turn their physical activity into miles as they journey along the Mississippi River.

The Mississippi River Challenge is a fully configured wellness challenge. It is available as a corporate challenge for individuals or teams, with a fixed start date and duration, or as a personal challenge for participants to travel at their own pace.


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FeaturesThe Mississippi River Challenge includes the following features:

• Captivating images that describe the culture, history, and

geography of this iconic river.

• An interactive map that shows the route and tracks

progress.

• Push messages to drive engagement.

• Incentive point allocation for each milestone.

• Auto logging of steps from fitness devices such as Fitbit

(Zip, One, Flex, and Force), Jawbone Up, and Fitbug Orb.

• Posters and flyers to use for promotional activities.

• Corporate challenge options of 8 or 12 weeks.

• Optional blog for the challenge or individual teams.

Deployment OptionsThe Mississippi River Challenge supports a range of different

challenge models to meet your program requirements.

Personal ChallengesPersonal challenges allow each participant to start the challenge

at any time, traveling at his/her own pace to reach the final

milestone.

Corporate ChallengesCorporate challenges have a defined start and end date, with all

participants completing the journey at the same time.

• An individual challenge measures each participant’s

progress toward the next milestone.

• A team challenge allows participants to form teams that

compete against each other, measuring team average

distance when determining progress.

Corporate challenges are available with 8 or 12-week duration.

To reach the last milestone, an individual (or team average) will

need to record about 8,000 steps, or the equivalent of 4 aerobic

miles, every day.

Options for Team Challenges• Support teams of any size, defined during setup.

• Team captains, team names, and team members can be

self-selected or assigned by the program administrator

• During the enrollment period, team members may switch

teams. Once tracking starts, team membership is fixed for

the duration of the challenge.

Logging ActivityThe Mississippi River Challenge supports auto logging of steps

from fitness devices such as Fitbit (Zip, One, Flex, and Force),

Jawbone Up, and Fitbug Orb.

Participants may also log exercise using the online tracker --

choosing from more than 20 physical activities at three intensity

levels.


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The Lose for Health Challenge is a preconfigured weight loss challenge. With this challenge participants can track their weight, calculate percentage weight loss, and earn incentives for reaching each milestone. The Lose for Health Challenge is available as a corporate challenge for individuals, with a fixed start date and duration, or as a personal challenge for participants to advance at their own pace..


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FeaturesThe Lose for Health Challenge includes the following features:

• Tips and educational material for healthy weight loss.

• A progress chart that shows results and targets.

• Motivational push messages to drive engagement.

• Posters and flyers to use for promotional activities.

• Corporate challenge options of 8 or 12 weeks

• Incentive point allocation for each milestone

• Online tracker

• Option for validated baseline measurement

• Optional blog

Deployment OptionsThe Lose for Health Challenge supports a range of different

challenge models to meet your program requirements.

Personal ChallengesPersonal challenges allow each participant to start the challenge

at any time, advancing at their own pace to reach the final

milestone.

Corporate ChallengesCorporate challenges have a defined start and end date, with all

participants completing the challenge at the same time.

The Lose for Health Challenge is available as a team challenge,

which measures each participant’s progress toward the next

milestone.

Corporate challenges are available for durations of 8 or 12

weeks. To reach the last milestone, an individual will need to

record 5% weight loss.

Logging WeightThe Lose for Weight Challenge supports logging of weight up to

once per day using a Web tracker.

The option is available to require that baseline weight is validated

by a coach or coordinator.


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“THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

TRY AND

TRIUMPH IS A LITTLE ‘UMPH’!”

–MARVIN PHILLIPS


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Meliora Technology is the industry’s premier provider of technology solutions for workplace health management programs, including the development and implementation of customized, web based health management software. We also offer a wide range of tools and services that streamline the benefits administration process, including an online benefits enrollment and administration system, EDI data exchange, error resolution and more.

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