Healthtrac Inc.
Healthtrac Program Overview 

Evaluation Summary

Narrative Description of Evaluation Results

With a strong academic foundation and a commitment to evaluation, Healthtrac programs have been extensively studied. They have been documented-effective in more peer-reviewed studies in major medical journals than other programs. An initial C. Everett Koop National Health Award winner, Healthtrac received this honor in 1992 and 1994. Since then, additional studies have been completed and these are highlighted in this submission.

Listed (Section III) are thirteen studies. Ten of these (articles 4-11) have been published in major medical journals. Three are in the publication process. These document both health risk and cost reduction for indemnity and managed care plan members. One of the largest randomized control trials ever conducted, the PERS study (5) was recently cited in Proof Positive (Chapman, L., 1996) as the best health education and cost savings study ever conducted.

The first five studies document the results of the most recent Programs, Babytrac (study 1), High Risk (studies 2 and 3), the Arthritis program (study 4), and the Parkinson's Disease program (study 5).

New results since the 1994 submission reveal the success of our:

• chronic disease modules [arthritis (4) and Parkinson's Disease (5)] 
• Babytrac Program (1) (resulting in a 50% reduction in low birth weight infants; ROI = 10:1), 
• high risk/cost predictive model (2), and, 
• high risk program (3) (ROI of 8:1 for program completers)