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System and method for integrated health promotion, injury prevention, and management

a health promotion and integrated technology, applied in the field of integrated health promotion, injury prevention and management, can solve the problems of reducing the number of people in the current marketplace, and reducing the number of people in the current mark

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-11-09
GROGAN TROY JAMES +2
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These numbers cannot be sustained in the current marketplace.
Legacy benefit costs are retarding growth, distorting wages, and killing profitability in entire business sectors.

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[0015] The preferred embodiment is a system and method that integrates a participant's medical, physical, behavioral and psychological risk factors, historical morbidity and injury profile and the resultant health-care costs allowing for specifically targeted strategies to be developed for highly effective individual and corporate / organizational health promotion.

[0016] In one embodiment, the system and method uses an actual participant's health and fitness assessment data, occupational health and safety, and / or healthcare data. Then utilizes workplace systems and communication, web-based and personal (one to one) intervention strategies to lower the individuals' health risk factors. Therefore, the organizations health risk factors are lowered resulting in a boost of human performance and workplace productivity.

[0017] The system and method of one embodiment combines the previously separate areas of wellness, safety, and disability / injury management to increase efficiency and improv...

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Abstract

One embodiment includes a system and method to integrate a participant's medical, physical, behavioral and psychological risk factors, historical morbidity and injury profile and the resultant health-care costs allowing for specifically targeted strategies to be developed for highly effective individual and corporate / organizational health promotion.

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PRIORITY CLAIM [0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 638,506 filed on Dec. 22, 2004 and of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 639,232 filed on Dec. 23, 2004; both of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Insurance premiums for employer sponsored health benefits reached $520 billion in 2004. These numbers cannot be sustained in the current marketplace. Legacy benefit costs are retarding growth, distorting wages, and killing profitability in entire business sectors. [0003] In one embodiment, this problem is solved by offering an industry specific, systems based, and / or integrated system and method for integrated health promotion, injury prevention, and / or management, SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0004] A method for integrated health promotion, injury prevention, and management. The method includes, integrating users risk information and assessing health needs of a participant. Using this...

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IPC IPC(8): A63B71/00G16H20/30
CPCA63B22/00A63B24/00A63B24/0075G06Q99/00G06F19/322G06F19/3481A63B2230/00G16H10/60G16H20/30
Inventor GROGAN, TROY JAMESHARRIS, DAVID ROSSPERES, CHRIS
Owner GROGAN TROY JAMES
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