As a HR or health promotion professional, you probably have been hearing a lot about biometric screenings. But you may be wondering how biometric screenings can really help your company and wellness program. By measuring your employees’ cholesterol and glucose levels, body mass index and blood pressure, onsite screenings provide information you and your employees need to understand health risks. Plus, you gain insights that health risk appraisals or claims data alone can’t provide.
Since seven is such a lucky number, here are seven ways that biometric screenings can help support your worksite wellness program.
- Provides baseline data to shape the direction of your corporate wellness program.
- Data is objective and more accurate than self-reported information.
- Measure the effectiveness of your interventions and refine them over time.
- Prioritize which conditions or risk factors deserve your attention first.
- Gives you a clear picture of your population's health status and risks.
- Detect preventable diseases and serious health conditions earlier.
- Get the best ROI by investing your dollars in health issues that have the largest impact on your organization.
The combination of these seven benefits is a workforce that is more informed about, and aware of, the health risks they may face in the future. And by investing in preventive screening and health education today, you're more likely to spend less on medical treatment tomorrow.
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