We take a social approach to wellness that drives maximum engagement, outcomes, and return-on-investment.
Healthy living can be difficult. Most of us struggle to eat right, maintain a healthy weight, exercise daily, get enough sleep, and see our doctor and dentist regularly. But it turns out that working together with our friends, family, and colleagues makes the effort fun and so much easier. Lots of research shows that the people around us influence our health, and when we work together, we’re much more likely to succeed.
At ShapeUp, we use a social approach to help people lead healthy lives. We bring people together in a common place where they can challenge, support, and encourage each other as they work toward meeting their health goals. Our proprietary software solution combines social networking, social gaming, and financial incentives to make wellness fun, drive behavior change, and save your company money. Through comprehensive programming that includes healthy competitions and challenges, individual and group wellness coaching, exercise tracking device integration, and strategic financial incentives, we help self-insured employers and health plans engage their populations and achieve their wellness objectives.
It’s no secret that there’s an engagement problem in health care. Employers and health plans are struggling with how to get their employees and members to take control of their health by participating in wellness programs. After years of lackluster engagement, poor outcomes, and dependence on expensive financial incentives, our social approach offers a new and powerful way to achieve meaningful and long-term engagement – and ultimately significant cost savings.
Here’s how it works:
- We use our platform to set up a virtual, private social network just for your company. It’s safe and secure, HIPAA compliant, and only your employees will have access. We’ll also help you market the program effectively to your employees.
- Each employee who joins the network will spread the word to others, using our social recruitment tools. This creates a grassroots, bottom-up peer-to-peer marketing campaign that drives engagement and helps reach a critical mass within your population.
- Once they join, employees create a profile, upload a photo, share their health goals and activity interests, and ask their colleagues to support them. Building a core group of supporters is the first step to helping your employees achieve their goals.
- Participants set goals and track their progress as they participate in year-round healthy challenges that focus on nutrition, exercise, weight management, and stress reduction. Our challenges leverage teamwork, competition, and game mechanics to make wellness fun.
- On the platform, participants can engage in healthy conversations, find activity partners, share their progress, and even create their own wellness challenges with their colleagues. Through social support, group motivation, and peer accountability, our platform will empower your employees to improve their health.
- We’ll work with you to use our engagement engine to drive engagement in your existing wellness programs. Do you currently have a health risk assessment, coaching program, biometric screenings, or onsite fitness facilities? We’ll use social tools to encourage your employees to take advantage of these offerings and help you capture more value.
- Our robust employer reporting dashboard will give you a front row seat to watch as your employees shed thousands of pounds, walk millions of miles, and spread healthy behaviors throughout your company. We provide all the reports you need to understand and demonstrate the significant return-on-investment that our program delivers.
Visit our features page to learn more about the core products and services that we offer on the ShapeUp Platform.
