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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic Health Solutions' Third-Party Administration (TPA) clients now can offer their employees a comprehensive personal health management application via the Web. The award-winning Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth portal provides tools to help members better manage their health and health benefits. The portal provides access to:
The Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth member portal is provided as an integrated component of Mayo Clinic Health Solutions' TPA services. The state-of-the-art wellness portal is personalized based on a member's gender, age, health interests and health risks as determined by Mayo Clinic Health Risk Assessment. Mayo's TPA clients also will have access to an online, password-protected selection of reports that provide aggregate data on utilization, health risks and other measures.
"By leveraging the expertise of Mayo Clinic and integrating these services, we hope to offer our clients and their employees a more robust and comprehensive set of clinically based and reliable tools for managing health, health care expenses and benefits," says Brian Rotty, executive director of MMSI, the division of Mayo Clinic Health Solutions that provides benefits administration services. "The Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth member portal is an important tool to help consumers take charge of improving their health."
Clients may choose to customize their Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth portal to enhance its strategic role in their health management program. Customization options include a points-based wellness incentive program, customized health risk assessment and walking campaigns and custom company content.
For more information about third-party administrative services or to see a demonstration of the new Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth member portal, visit www.MayoClinicHealthSolutions.com.
About MayoClinic.comLaunched in 1995 and visited more than 13 million times a month, this award-winning Web site offers health information, self-improvement and disease management tools to empower people to manage their health. Produced by a team of Web professionals and medical experts, MayoClinic.com gives users access to the experience and knowledge of the more than 2,500 physicians and scientists of Mayo Clinic. MayoClinic.com offers users intuitive, easy-to-use tools such as "Symptom Checker" and "First-Aid Guide" for fast answers about health conditions ranging from common to complex; as well as an A-Z library of more than 850 diseases and conditions, in-depth sections on 24 common diseases and conditions, 16 healthy living areas, including food and nutrition, recipes, fitness and weight control, videos, animations and features such as "Ask a Specialist" and "Drug Watch." Users can sign up for a free weekly e-newsletter, "Housecall," which provides the latest health information from Mayo Clinic. For more information, visit www.mayoclinic.com. |
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