Benefitfocus.com, Inc.

Mayo Clinic Alliance

Benefitfocus is teaming up with Mayo Clinic, a worldwide leader in medical care, research and education, to provide expert health and wellness content available through HR InTouch. Through this alliance, HR InTouch customers can access the EmbodyHealth portal, as well as more than 3,000 Mayo Clinic articles on diseases, procedures, health tips and even healthy recipes. All resources are integrated with HR InTouch, so employees can easily access them through the same portal they use to manage all of their benefits.

EmbodyHealth Portal

The Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth portal is an online tool to help your employees better manage their health. Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth combines smart Web technology with proven behavior change methods to improve lifestyle habits, inform about better treatment decisions and reduce health risks. The portal is personalized for each user by:

  • Gender and age
  • Health status and health risks
  • Readiness, motivation and confidence
  • Health interests

Employees can also subscribe to the EmbodyHealth newsletter, containing quick tips that promote self-care and healthy lifestyles.

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Mayo Clinic Health Assessment

The Mayo Clinic Health Assessment provides a catalyst for employee behavior change, gathering data critical to evaluating individual and population health. Its foundation of nationally recognized guidelines, evidence-based medicine and Mayo Clinic expertise assures that participants are placed in the most accurate risk categories and driven to programs and tools to:

Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth Portal
  • Keep low-risk individuals, low-risk
  • Prevent medium- and high-risk people from migrating into higher risk categories
  • Reduce risks among all at-risk participants
  • Create positive trends in risk profiles

This easy-to-use, private and secure tool takes only minutes to complete and presents participants with a health status overview and recommendations immediately upon completion. Encouraging, personalized messaging drives them to the most appropriate follow-up resources.

The Mayo Clinic Advantage

The EmbodyHealth employee health website was developed with the expertise of more than 3,700 Mayo Clinic physicians and scientists. These practicing clinicians also provide ongoing direction working side by side with Web-publishing professionals to ensure the accuracy, relevance and usefulness of the site’s information and tools. This collaborative approach gives your employees access to the latest thinking in disease prevention, behavior change, risk reduction, condition management, self-care and treatment options.