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Aetna Adds OneHealth ® Peer Support Platform to Employee Assistance Program to Help Members Change Behaviors
–Technology-enabled program engages employees to help reduce health risk factors and lead healthier lives–
HARTFORD, Conn. & SOLANA BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Aetna Employee Assistance Program (EAP) members may now have access to a social networking platform that connects them to peer support and behavior change professionals for help in overcoming chronic behavioral health conditions such as alcoholism, depression or stress. Aetna (NYSE: AET) and OneHealth® Solutions, Inc. announced today that Aetna has licensed the OneHealth platform as a purchase option for their EAP customers.
Aetna Resources for Living, Aetna’s EAP, is a confidential counseling and referral service for employees and their household members. This benefit provides 24/7 access to targeted resources to help employees achieve a more satisfactory work/life balance and to better manage personal and health-related conditions.
“We partnered with OneHealth because of their peer-centered approach to condition management,” said Hyong Un, M.D., chief psychiatric officer and head of Resources for Living for Aetna Behavioral Health. “Employees need relationships and safe connections to make sustained changes to behavior.”
OneHealth’s secure, HIPAA-compliant online and mobile platform gives Aetna EAP members access to integrated, condition-specific social health communities that offer emotional check-ins, evidence-based tools and game mechanics to help them manage their own care and sustain positive behavior change.
OneHealth’s Social Solutioning® platform provides support for a wide range of chronic behavioral and medical conditions, including alcohol addiction, tobacco cessation, depression, stress reduction, diabetes, obesity, respiratory conditions and caregiver/family support for addiction-related disorders, co-dependency and autism.
“Aetna is providing innovative, high-quality health care tools for its EAP members to help reduce health risk factors that contribute to medical spending,” said Bruce Springer, CEO of OneHealth. “We are proud to play an integral role in helping employees enhance long-term health outcomes for one of the largest EAP programs in the U.S.”
OneHealth conducted a pilot with members participating in Aetna’s Alcohol Disease Management and Intensive Care Management programs who had recently completed detox or addiction treatment. Data from the pilot indicated that 81 percent of members who visited the program’s website enrolled. Of the enrolled members, 76 percent showed consistent engagement by returning to the website two or more times.
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