Wearable Devices One Employers Experience Gerri Burruel, McKesson - PDF document

Wearable Devices – One Employer’s Experience Gerri Burruel, McKesson VP Benefits, Total Rewards June 17, 2014 McKesson’s Wellness and “Device” Rollout Launched Distributed Employees earn McKesson’s pedometer to every points by Wellness employee who engaging healthy Program, in requested one actions including partnership with partnership with workouts and workouts and initially over 11,000 Vitality in 2010 online courses; – current Points earn status engagement at and status earns over 70% discounts 1

Simple Pedometer Wasn’t Enough •Vitality program requires validated activities •Pedometers broke or were easily lost Pedometers broke or were easily lost •Not all of McKesson employees had computer access at work •Many employees had other devices •Vitality is “device agnostic” Device Distress – Employee Complaints “I’m having “I want to use a difficulty difficulty device that device that connecting my counts swimming “ Insert Device as an activity.” Name ” to my Vitality account.” “I want more “I want my information about activities to my workout, my upload wirelessly calorie burn my calorie burn, my and connect to and connect to heart rate, etc.” my smart phone.” 2

Incentives Work - •Premium incentives at Silver and Gold Status changed the game! •Healthy Challenges significantly increases device usage •Earning Vitality points is important E i Vi li i i i •Most everyone at McKesson wears a device •Our engagement levels are surprising Where Do We Go From Here? Device capability Directly upload is expanding. sleep metric, What biometrics blood pressure, p , will we as quality of daily employers activities, weight? measure? How do we How far do we go encourage g to incentivize use healthy lifestyle of devices? How by those who much are we need it most? willing to pay for healthy behaviors? 3

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