Integrated into Homebase for Health, Virgin Pulse's Partner Ecosystem Makes it Easy to Address Everyday and Long-term Health & Wellbeing Needs for Diverse Populations
PROVIDENCE, R.I., April 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Virgin Pulse, the leading global digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company, today announced updates to its partner ecosystem that enable clients to more proactively address important lifestyle needs of their people. A new dietary assessment and management tool is now available, as well as multiple new offerings in the VP+ partner bundle program, including caregiver support, nutrition classes, substance use management, adult sleep improvement, and infant parenting support.
The value of Virgin Pulse's growing ecosystem is being showcased at this month's Thrive Summit 2023 with 27 partner sponsors including LifeSpeak Inc., parent company for Wellbeats and ALAViDA (Diamond); Sword Health (Gold); and Cariloop, Koa Health, meQuilibrium (meQ), and RethinkCare (Silver). Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the immersive event features world-renowned experts, academics, and innovators addressing topics that are top of mind for the expected 1,200 employer, health plan, and health system leaders attending in Salt Lake City, Utah and virtually, April 11-13, 2023.
Available via its Homebase for Health® platform, Virgin Pulse's partner ecosystem streamlines access to more than 70 specialty solutions, making it easy for companies to connect members with a broad range of high-impact health and wellbeing programs. The company's one-contract VP+ partner bundle program enables employers and health plans to easily curate a suite of pre-vetted, pre-integrated partner solutions that meet the needs of their populations.
Joining the Virgin Pulse partner ecosystem or the VP+ bundle program are:
Virgin Pulse's comprehensive review and selection process ensures each partner within its ecosystem maintains the highest privacy and security standards, drives member engagement, and is focused on delivering health and cost-saving outcomes. Virgin Pulse eliminates administrative burdens by completing these comprehensive reviews of all new partners along with handling vendor contracting, procurement, and billing on behalf of clients.
"We continually assess market trends to determine emerging areas of need that will help our clients meet employee expectations for total health and wellbeing support," said Jeff Yoshimura, chief product officer at Virgin Pulse. "By offering a wide range of partner resources through our Homebase for Health platform, we're making it easier and more cost-effective for employers to deploy them, helping their staff improve their quality of life.
"For example, caregiving support is an area that affects both workers and their employers tremendously," continued Yoshimura. "Employed family caregivers regularly experience many work-related challenges, including absenteeism and presenteeism, with an estimated $5,600 per employee due to reduced productivity at work.1 Our clients can now choose Cariloop as part of their VP+ bundle to support their employees while benefitting their organization."
Integrated, Curated Partner Ecosystem
Virgin Pulse's partner ecosystem helps companies close gaps in care across 25 health and wellbeing categories while addressing the most common and costly health concerns. To optimize program utilization and user experience, all partner solutions are seamlessly integrated and accessible through Virgin Pulse's Homebase for Health platform, which provides a single entry point to comprehensive digital capabilities and live services, as well as the partner ecosystem. Combined with personalized recommendations and incentives, the platform guides members to make the best possible decisions at every stage of their health and wellbeing journey. Usage data shows that four times more members are engaged with select partner solutions integrated into Virgin Pulse versus standalone deployments.
About Virgin Pulse
Virgin Pulse is the leading digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company that empowers organizations across the globe to activate populations, improve health outcomes, and reduce spend in an era of accelerating cost and complexity. Virgin Pulse's Homebase for Health® connects data, people, and technology to deliver high tech, human touch experiences that engage and reward individual journeys. Virgin Pulse impacts over 100 million people across 190 countries by helping Fortune 500, national health plans, and many other organizations change lives – and businesses – for good. For more tips and insights, connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1098301522020691#preview-section-abstract
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