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. 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 assesses 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, and even optimally
achievable, allowing for the most targeted
medical management possible. (top
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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: PPeggy 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
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How can Know
Your Number integrate into my existing program?
Know Your Number® can be used
to complement 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. Placing the right people in the right
program is key to the success of any initiative.
QQuantification- Know Your Number does
more than quantify risk on an individual level;
Know Your Number can estimate 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:
What will my future population health profile
look like? How much will my future 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 risks.
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