BASKING RIDGE, N.J., July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hooper Holmes (AMEX:HH) today announced the completion of its 25,000th employee screening for health and wellness companies, marking a milestone in bringing national coverage and consistency to the screening of employee groups and individuals, the gathering of personal health data, and the reporting of results.
Hooper Holmes Health and Wellness service is a "one-stop shop" for wellness and disease management companies, providing scheduling support, fulfillment of supplies, blood collection kits, medical screenings, lab testing, and data transmission. As a result, these companies can now reach more participants, gather more participant data earlier in the disease management process, better target interventional health support services and more easily reach participants on their terms, at work or at home.
Hooper Holmes began offering its integrated suite of services to health support organizations earlier this year after completing several months of successful trials. This new Health and Wellness service takes advantage of Hooper Holmes' ability to arrange a medical exam anywhere in the U.S., and leverages the company's state-of-the-art testing laboratory and medical device manufacturer, Heritage Labs.
"Employers need healthy employees, and they need to control health care costs," said James D. Calver, President and CEO of Hooper Holmes. "Wellness and disease management services are a large and growing market. It's only logical that we leverage our skills, scale and scope to create a complete solution for wellness and disease management companies." Healthways, the world's leading health and care support organization, was a pilot customer and has approved Hooper Holmes, with its integrated supply chain, to deliver its myhealthIQ(sm) program to its customers. Healthways' myhealthIQ program identifies health risks and empowers participants with the right information at the right time so they can take action to improve their health.
"By using Hooper Holmes, we are able to provide a more consistent customer experience while delivering our myhealthIQ solution to more participants," said Mary D. Hunter, Executive Vice President of Healthways.
About Healthways Healthways (NASDAQ:HWAY) is the leading provider of specialized, comprehensive Health and Care Support(SM) solutions to help millions of people maintain or improve their health and, as a result, reduce overall healthcare costs. Healthways' programs are designed to help healthy individuals stay healthy, mitigate and slow the progression of disease associated with family or lifestyle risk factors and promote the best possible health for those already affected by disease. For more information, please visit http://www.healthways.com/.
About Hooper Holmes Hooper Holmes' vision is to be the leader in collecting personal health data and transforming it into useful information, enabling customers to take actions that manage or reduce their risks and expenses. As the leading provider of risk assessment services for the insurance industry, Hooper Holmes provides insurers with the widest range of medical exam, data collection, laboratory testing and underwriting services in the industry.
With presence in over 250 markets and a network of more than 9,000 examiners, Hooper Holmes can arrange a medical exam anywhere in the U.S. and deliver the results to its customers. Each year we arrange more than 2.3 million medical exams and process about the same number of samples in our laboratory. We underwrite 300,000 cases annually and complete more than two million telephone interviews. We are also a leading provider of medical claims evaluation services used by property and casualty insurance carriers, law firms, self-insureds and third-party administrators to handle personal injury and accident claims.
Certain information contained herein includes information that is forward- looking. The matters referred to in forward-looking statements may be affected by the risks and uncertainties involving the Company's business. These forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by cautionary statements contained in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The Company disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: Hooper Holmes CONTACT: James Calver, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hooper Holmes, +1-908-766-5000; or Investors-Media, Jonathan Birt or John Capodanno, Financial Dynamics, +1-212-850-5600, for Hooper Holmes Web site: http://www.hooperholmes.com/ http://www.healthways.com/
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