Health coaching has emerged as an essential plank in a population health management platform, helping to identify and mitigate risk in populations across the health continuum and cultivating a culture of wellness. Health coaches employ a range of tools and technologies as they guide individuals toward health behavior change.
In recent years, eligibility for health coaching has expanded beyond the employee to spouses and dependents.
The Guide to Health Coaching lays the groundwork for a health coaching initiative, delivering the following:
- A comprehensive set of 2013 health coaching benchmarks from 150 companies;
- An examination of integrated coaching's toolbox of interventions that span the health risk continuum keeping the healthy, healthy without compromising the clinical support needed for high-risk, high utilization individuals;
- Fundamentals of three essential coaching tools motivational interviewing, the Patient Activation Measure® and Positive Psychology that support coaches as they meet clients where they are and foster self-management.
Download the executive summary of the Guide to Health Coaching.
Answers to more than 30 critical FAQs on health coaching are provided.
Chapter 1: 2013 Healthcare Benchmarks in Health Coaching
Chapter 2: Integrated Health Coaching
Chapter 3: Three Pillars of Health Coaching
Download the executive summary of the Guide to Health Coaching.
Applying the best practices contained in the Guide to Health Coaching
will prep any coaching initiative for the post-ACA world of accountable healthcare.