CORPORATE WELLNESS OVERVIEW

Benefits of an effective corporate wellness program are touted to promote a healthy workforce for the overall benefit of the employee, reduce time missed at work due to chronic health issues, and reduce the cost of group insurance packages by reducing the usage of insurance benefits for chronic disease management. Achieving these goals has two prerequisites: accurate risk stratification , and participant compliance . The use of basic health markers such as body weight/morphology, systolic/diastolic blood pressure, and calculated risk scores have limited correlation with long term prognosis of the individual. Adding a highly sensitive functional assessment that detects early stage heart disease offered by MET-TEST can help improve all aspects of a wellness program.


Details of how the process works can be viewed on the PREVENTION page. 

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