U.S. Preventive Medicine rolls out online tool

DALLAS—U.S. Preventive Medicine is offering an online wellness program for employers to help their employees manage chronic conditions and focus on preventive health care.

The Prevention Plan, available at www.thepreventionplan.com, is a Web-based tool to help employees to determine their health care risks and create a plan to lower those risks. A nurse advocate is available to answer questions and help users navigate the health care system.

The program can be used to manage chronic care needs of individuals with existing medical issues such as diabetes or asthma, as well as other high-risk health issues. Other features include alerts for preventive screenings, reward program resources and discounts with national partners.

Employees can use the program as a secure data center to store medical information and track their progress, even if they the employer changes insurance carriers or the employee changes jobs, according to the Dallas-based health management company. And employers receive reports to help them evaluate their programs and manage health care costs, the company said.

Employers have no choice but to manage runaway health care costs, Christopher Fey, chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement. "The federal government is projecting that the average cost of spending per person on health care will be $13,101 by the year 2017," he said, "nearly double the cost in 2006."

For more information, contact Jennifer Sargent, vp of sales, at 612-720-5143, or jsargent@uspreventivemedicine.com or visit www.uspreventivemedicine.com.

Aetna Inc. enhancing expat wellness program

HARTFORD, Conn.—Aetna Inc. is expanding resources offered by its Global Health Connections program for employees working outside the United States or with multinational organizations.

The enhancements include a screening tool for high-risk pregnancies and customized education for members who are at a high risk for disease. It also offers members and their dependents a variety of weight management tools.

Aetna's Global Health Connections program, which launched in April, already includes a chronic disease management program for high-risk members who suffer from conditions such as asthma or diabetes, and an online wellness program for expatriates.

For more information, contact Isabelle Hebert, head of strategy, marketing and product, Aetna Global Benefits at 860-273-0420 or heberti@aetna.com.

Willis program focuses on environmental liability

NEW YORK—Willis Group Holdings Ltd. has introduced an environmental prospective identification and quantification program to help organizations evaluate and reduce their environmental exposures.

The program collects and reviews data about a company's environmental liability portfolio to identify gaps in liability identification, valuation or disclosure.

Following a meeting to gather information, an EPIQ proprietary tool analyzes the information to generate loss possibilities "even where historic loss data is scarce or not available," the New York-based brokerage said in a statement.

For more information, contact Michael Balmer, North American environmental practice leader, at michael.balmer@willis.com or visit www.willis.com.