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Health Coaching Benchmarks, 2010 Edition: More Insight into the Growing Trend of Health Coaching

The Healthcare Intelligence Network's newly released special report, an all-new follow-up to the best-selling 2009 Health Coaching Benchmarks, Health Coaching Benchmarks, 2010 Edition: Operations and Performance Data for Optimal Program ROI and Participant Health Status, is packed with actionable new data on health coaching activity, with the latest metrics on the prevalence of health coaching, favored delivery methods, targeted populations and lifestyle conditions, preferred behavior change models, coaching case loads and much, much more.

Learn more about the growing trend of health coaching.

NEWS FACTS:

Health Coaching Benchmarks, 2010 Edition is a 55-page resource that analyzes the responses of 212 healthcare organizations to HIN's second annual 2009 Survey on Health and Wellness Coaching. This resource continues to be the go-to compendium of reliable data to help organizations evaluate their health coaching programs and compare performance and utilization data.

Drilling down to coaching trends for specific lifestyle conditions — weight management, smoking cessation and stress management — and by industry sector, the newly created 2010 report supplements this data with more than 40 easy-to-follow graphs and tables. This book is an essential companion resource for any organization considering, planning, evaluating or enhancing a health coaching program.

Download the executive summary of Health Coaching Benchmarks, 2010 Edition.

• Content Overview: Health Coaching Benchmarks, 2010 Edition is enhanced by observations and advice from industry thought leaders on common coaching concerns. This report answers many coaching metric FAQs, including how individuals are identified for coaching programs, factors that influence a coach's case load, which modality should be employed to deliver weight management, smoking cessation or stress management coaching; how organizations can measure a client's engagement in and satisfaction with a health coaching program, and more.
  
  
• Data Highlights:
  • Targeted populations for coaching;
  • Targeted health conditions for coaching;
  • Preferred coaching modalities — telephonic, online and in-person;
  • Matching coaching modalities to participants' health conditions;
  • Enrollment trends — eligibility, participation and completion rates;
  • Recommended coach case loads by coaching modality and the factors that can influence this;
  • Suggested formulas for measuring ROI and program effectiveness;
  • The numbers of hospitals, health plans and employers offering health coaching today and those with coaching programs in the wings;
  • Preferred behavior change models;
  • Preferred coaching promotion models;
  • Impact of coaching on healthcare cost, health risk and individual health status;
  • Frank commentary on what's working in health coaching and the greatest challenges associated with launching a coaching program;
  
  
  and much more. Organizations looking to improve their health coaching programs and compare their data with other programs can gain information from more than 200 organizations on current and future coaching initiatives.

• Contributing Authors: Kate Larsen, president of Winning LifeStyles, Inc., an ICF-certified professional coach and a Wellcoaches faculty member and mentor coach; Paul Terry, president and CEO of StayWell Health Management; and Dr. Jim Reynolds, chief medical officer of Health Fitness Corporation.
  
  
• Report Formats: Print or PDF.

Learn more about health coaching programs.

QUOTE ATTRIBUTABLE TO MELANIE MATTHEWS, HIN EXECUTIVE VP AND COO:

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"With the growing interest in lifestyle management and behavior change, especially during these harsh economic times, many healthcare organizations will want to educate themselves on establishing or fine-tuning a health coaching program that will successfully engage patients in behavior change and decrease medical costs."

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