Health Ink & Vitality Launches Total Health Solution for Employers.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers YARDLEY, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 2003 Health Ink & Vitality vi·tal·i·ty n. 1. The capacity to live, grow, or develop. 2. Physical or intellectual vigor; energy. Communications has launched a new comprehensive health promotion package developed to help benefit managers improve employee health while controlling health care costs. Called the Total Health Solution, the package integrates a targeted employee publication, an online health management resource and interactive disease management modules developed by strategic partner Protocol Driven Healthcare, Inc. (PDHI PDHI Protocol Driven Healthcare, Inc ). The components are integrated to enable employers to target employees along the full continuum of health promotion -- from wellness management to disease management. "We developed the Total Health Solution to help employee benefit managers take aggressive action in reducing their health care costs," said Dave Nazaruk, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Health Ink & Vitality. "The great thing about our integrated package is that all employees can take advantage of it, whatever their health status or location." Health Ink & Vitality's Total Health Solution consists of three main components: -- The award-winning Vitality Magazine, which has helped employees maintain healthy lifestyles for over 20 years. Vitality targets topics that most cost-effectively influence employees' behaviors, including chronic conditions. Also available is Vitality Notes, an 8-page newsletter that can be customized to direct employees to personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. online services. -- Health Ink Online, a URAC-accredited suite of health content and behavior change Behavior change refers to any transformation or modification of human behavior. Such changes can occur intentionally, through behavior modification, without intention, or change rapidly in situations of mental illness. tools that enables employees to identify health risks and work toward reducing them. It includes a confidential health risk assessment that provides employers aggregate reporting to help them tailor their health promotion efforts. -- Interactive disease management modules from PDHI that are integrated with Health Ink Online to help employees better manage their conditions and make informed choices about their health care. Programs include arthritis arthritis, painful inflammation of a joint or joints of the body, usually producing heat and redness. There are many kinds of arthritis. In its various forms, arthritis disables more people than any other chronic disorder. , asthma, back pain, congestive heart failure congestive heart failure, inability of the heart to expel sufficient blood to keep pace with the metabolic demands of the body. In the healthy individual the heart can tolerate large increases of workload for a considerable length of time. , coronary artery disease coronary artery disease, condition that results when the coronary arteries are narrowed or occluded, most commonly by atherosclerotic deposits of fibrous and fatty tissue. , depression, diabetes, and hypertension hypertension or high blood pressure, elevated blood pressure resulting from an increase in the amount of blood pumped by the heart or from increased resistance to the flow of blood through the small arterial blood vessels (arterioles). . About Health Ink & Vitality: Health Ink & Vitality Communications provides health care organizations and employers customizable publications, Web-ready content, Web-based health management tools, Vitality Magazine and health promotion materials. Its print publications reach 18 million households per quarter. Health Ink & Vitality is a StayWell Company, a leader in consumer health information products and services. |
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