Thursday, April 17, 2008

Health Screenings and Biometrics

The most common screening provided to our clients is Biometric screenings. This screening measures total cholesterol, HDL (good), LDL (bad), Triglycerides, glucose (blood sugar), blood pressure and either height, weight and Body-Mass Index (BMI) or body-fat percentage screening. Some clients substitute hip and waist measurements for the BMI and Body-fat screenings or also add these measurements to the biometric results.

The objective of biometric screenings is to identify medium and high risk individuals and develop company objectives to reduce their risk category toward the lower risk groups. Statistics widely available soundly prove that moving someone from high to medium risk and medium to low risk can saves thousands of dollars per year per employee in health care costs.

Biometrics are just part of an overall health strategy. Biometrics done without much planning result in a lost opportunity to reduce the increase in health care cost trends. Biometrics are a great way assess health of your employee population. It the screening are not done with proper planning and implementation a great deal of their value is lost!

Appointment Scheduling Online

Scheduling flu shots, health screenings, health seminars, training programs and related events are greatly streamlined and simplified by utilizing an on line appointment scheduling program. Health Fairs of America has developed its own web based application to help our corporate clients organize their employee population easily and efficiently at a very reasonable cost. The application is aptly called Employeesignup.com. It is used by many Fortune 100 and 500 clients. We feel it is the premier on line scheduling appointment application available because of its simplicity from the participant/registrant end in conjunction with the easy to learn administrative and event creation tools.

Employeesignup.com is an 8 year old application. It is available for occasional per event usage by our clients or for annual and multiple year licenses.

When providing on site flu shots and health screenings to thousands of employees and multiple events, the importance of scheduling appointments prior to the events is paramount for proper staffing, optimizing employee time and creating an overall quality event.

This philosophy goes hand in hand with our corporate focus of providing the highest quality professional nurses and staff in the industry.