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What is ROGER?

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ROGERsm is a breakthrough, knowledge-based wellness informatics web application. It works on a one-to-one basis with the user to help improve their personal health and well being by offering daily easy-to-practice lifestyle changes. ROGERsm accomplishes its wellness goals by applying a browser-based preventive care and lifestyle management approach that concentrates on daily personal encouragement, community support, and goal achievement indicators.

ROGERsm's interactive intervention method is unique in the industry.  It is a primary prevention system delivered through a new and innovative behavioral change model designed specifically for robust and graphical Internet-based engagement.

ROGERsm is designed using a proprietary behavioral model based on the principle that the graphical “game-like” design invites the consumer to participate fully in the development of a customized lifestyle plan. ROGERsm then celebrates and congratulates each person for their continued engagement, and learns with the consumer so that their lifestyle plans are developed, accessed, updated, and improved over time.

ROGERsm is a unique approach to wellness that benefits each concerned party: health insurance providers, corporate and government plan managers, as well as each individual who uses it.

ROGERsm is:

  • A powerful, unparalleled turnkey wellness solution

    Wellness programs are not universally available through employers because of their expense, and/or because such programs are not comprehensive enough to produce meaningful results. Our wellness product combines a full-featured, proprietary behavioral wellness model nuanced for Internet-based interaction with a dynamic and robust visual (non textual) experience.  The system is also enhanced through the support provided by highly trained call center professionals.

  • Unmatched usability and integration

    ROGERsm is an online solution that is highly engaging and rewarding for participants over the long-term. This helps to ensure the success of the individual and creates meaningful benefits for the employer, such as increased employee productivity, fewer sick-leave days and finally lower plan payments over time.

  • A plug-‘n-play rollout strategy

    ROGERsm provides easy-to-use integration tools for benefits providers to facilitate the secure and accurate exchange of consumer medical data and biographical information with the ROGERsm system.

  • A visual, 3-D user experience

    ROGERsm’s emphasis on delivering a rich and visual environment effectively engages individuals and keeps them coming back to manage their personal health and well being.

  • A proprietary behavioral change/e-learning methodology

    This innovative model was co-designed by Dr. Michael Allen of Allen Interactions – one of the U.S.’s leading e-learning and human performance improvement research and consulting organizations. The model focuses on engaging the user to improve their “daily life” lifestyle behaviors to prevent not only chronic diseases, but also major risk factors for those diseases.

  • Scientifically-based, age- and gender-adjusted

    ROGERsm’s measurement standard, called The Healthy Lifestyle Index (HLI), serves as a motivator and benchmark for each individual. The animated metric indicators in the application provide visible incentives for improvement because the higher the HLI scores, the better the health and well being of the participant.  The HLI is derived from the following basic concepts.

  • Scientifically-based metrics measuring and tracking health and lifestyle behavior changes

  • Computations derived from the changing variables of the individual’s health and lifestyle profiles

  • Each lifestyle area’s HLI is weighted according to health and economic impact

  • Measurable success in an individual’s wellness leads to further increases in HLI; and these advances grow geometrically as the program recognizes successful incremental changes in the HLI

  • ROGERsm also offers group/population metrics that track and report changes in the employee community as a whole or in any meaningful desired cohort

  • Advanced algorithms and built-in integration technology

    ROGERsm continuously captures and analyzes data from multiple sources, including user input and benefit plan interactions to develop continuous and current snapshots of the health of the consumer. ROGERsm’s model learns and grows in accuracy as the consumer interacts with the ROGERsm system. The ROGERsm system then can adjust the individual health and wellness program to provide maximum benefit to the consumer based on its data collection and analysis.

  • Built for the health care insurer sector

    ROGERsm is sold exclusively to health insurance providers and government plan sponsors. Because Prevention Medicine supplies its technology on a private-label basis, health insurance providers deliver this unique service under their trusted brand. ROGERsm is offered as a “baked-in” enhancement to benefit plan designs, and, for a price that is so low its cost is a rounding error in the overall cost of the “coverage.”

What Makes ROGERsm Unique?

ROGERsm allows each participating individual to personally create customized lifestyle plans that are developed, accessed, updated, and improved over time. ROGERsm's accurate guidance is derived through the continuous flow of information provided by the benefit provider and the individual.

ROGERsm’s visual engagement methodologies and its proprietary behavioral change model have been exclusively designed to deliver a dynamic and scalable environment the consumer will find enriching and tailored to assist them to live healthier and happier.

The ROGERsm system:

  • Is highly personal and engaging
  • Targets prevention and promotes healthy living
  • Is age- and gender-appropriate
  • Is a holistic solution that adapts and improves over time
  • Is easy for plan managers to adopt

ROGERsm’s Benefits Are Clear And Tangible

ROGERsm meets people where they are. Each individual is provided with tailored and personalized solutions that will improve their health and wellbeing every day of their lives.

Employers gain a healthier, happier workforce and satisfy their mandate to provide forward-looking health care programs that work for their employees and their families.

Health insurance providers gain a new, highly differentiated product that contributes to long term reductions in health care costs and improves retention and customer satisfaction.

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