What distinguishes Know Your Number from traditional underwriting and actuarial methods?
 
Most mortality assessment methods are not only less accurate than probability- based prediction, but also fail to incorporate newly accepted medical findings into pre-existing models. Unlike last year’s underwriting manuals, Know Your Number® is continuously updateable. (top of page)

Does Know Your Number assign preferred status?

Yes, within your company’s pre-established parameters. Know Your Number® is not a “one size fits all” solution. Predicted Mortality Ratios are reported consistently to all users to ensure validity. Your PMR cut-off points might be different from those of your competitors, and Know Your Number will assign as many classifications as you specify. (top of page)

Can Know Your Number incorporate non-medical risk factors?

Yes. Driving records and situational factors have a measurable impact on life expectancy. Know Your Number® can take those into account based on the direct writer’s specific guidelines. What’s the PMR reference population? BioSignia’s PMR database represents the full spectrum of life insurance applicants in terms of age, gender, and medical history. Very large insurance companies have the option of providing their own data sets to use as the reference population. (top of page)

What makes Know Your Number different from traditional Health Risk Assessment tools?

Traditional health risk assessment (HRA) tools are mortality-based and non-disease specific, which makes them less useful in identifying disease risk and prediction of medical cost. A typical HRA uses a method of debit/credit or risk counting to generate an arbitrary scale score or health quotient from crude risk factor measures such as data from a self-reported questionnaire. Know Your Number® uses a patented and revolutionary morbidity-based and mortality-based modeling method called Synthesis Analysis which very accurately predicts one’s risk of not only death due to but also onset of and complications from specific chronic diseases. Because of Synthesis Analysis, Know Your Number can quantify the amount individual risk factors are actually contributing to someone’s total disease-specific risk. This information can be carried further to identify the amount of risk which is modifiable, absolute, and even optimally achievable, allowing for the most targeted medical management possible. (top of page)

Does Know Your Number require special equipment or software? How can it integrate with my system?

Know Your Number’s web-based system requires only a computer equipped with an Internet connection and a compatible web browser. In addition, Know Your Number® is HIPAA compliant and HL-7 compatible. Transmission of data can be accomplished several ways and BioSignia works with organizations to create complete technology solutions to provide seamless, user-friendly offerings. BioSignia’s support staff provides training, technical support and 24/7 global access. (top of page)

How does Know Your Number impact individual participant results?

Know Your Number’s benefits reach beyond it’s engine- the Know Your Number® participant and Aggregate reports are heads above the competition in communicating disease risk to participants and healthcare professionals. In fact, receiving a Know Your Number risk profile has been shown to positively impact behavior even without participation in follow up intervention or medical management. Seeing is Believing; "it’s all in the graphs" are words physicians, healthcare professionals, patients and employers have used to describe why Know Your Number works. Know Your Number graphically translates an individual’s lab results into a chronic disease risk and risk reduction comparisons they can readily understand. In addition, the weighted risk factor information gives participants actionable knowledge and understanding of how changing even just one risk factor can impact their risk. Typical comments:
Peggy Raymes, patient, “Know Your Number was my wake-up call. I keep it on my refrigerator to remind me of what I have to work on. It is a very good program…” “It helps me keep track of my progress. When I see those graphs going down, it motivates me to do more."
Georganna Simpson, patient, “Know Your Number’s graphs give me something to think about and enables me to talk to my doctor about my health, to ask questions, to want to know more and do something about it.…” (top of page)

How does Know Your Number help win new business and increase revenue for the clinical lab?

 It is common for a mature product in a well established industry to become commoditized. Such is the current state of the clinical lab business. Utilization of Know Your Number® provides a competitive edge and differentiation to the clinical lab with its ability to provide the lab report of the future with lab output that physicians love to use. Know Your Number has been proven to win new lab business with its added value and overcome the price wars. It is a win-win scenario, for the lab, for the physician and for the patient. (top of page)

How can Know Your Number integrate into my existing program?

Know Your Number® can be used to compliment existing health management programs. It can be customized to supercharge existing health risk assessment tools and incorporated into established technologies to deliver the next level of risk assessment. In fact, much of the data necessary is probably already being collected- it’s the extra value Know Your Number can bring to the analysis of that data that can take your program to the next level. (top of page)

How does Know Your Number improve ROI for wellness and disease management initiatives?

Because Know Your Number® is driven by Synthesis Analysis, Know Your Number improves return on investment by doing three things better than traditional methods: identification, quantification and modification.

Identification- Know Your Number more accurately stratifies a population by disease specific risk, absolute and modifiable. Placing the right people in the right program is key to the success of any initiative.

Quantification- Know Your Number does more than quantify risk on an individual level; Know Your Number can accurately predict a population’s future disease burden and the associated cost of managing that burden. Know Your Number can quantify the answers to the following questions: How many people in a population will be diagnosed with a specific disease within the next five years? How much will that disease burden cost? How much of that disease burden and those costs can be avoided? And most importantly, who in a population will likely be diagnosed and generate those future costs to the organization? Having the correct answers to these questions can greatly improve ROI.

Modification- Know Your Number presents disease risk in a multi-dimensional way to help communicate risk to participants. In fact, because Know Your Number can provide weighted risk factors, participants are more likely to modify their behavior and improve their risk scores. Know Your Number is a patented, validated, scientific predictive tool that physicians use clinically in their practice everyday. (top of page)