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Clinicians now able to assess stage of change in seconds! Pro-Change’s revolutionary Clinical Dashboard now offers clinicians, care coordinators, and health coaches the ability to assess stage of change for a variety of health risks or health behaviors and provide patients with brief, real-time, tailored, evidence-based behavior change tips based...
Enhanced On-Demand Reporting Provides Valuable Insights for Clients
Pro-Change is proud to announce a re-launch of our on-demand aggregate reporting capabilities for our award-winning LifeStyle Management Suite. Enhanced reports provide aggregated views of overall health and well-being for individuals utilizing our Health Risk Intervention and Self-Management Tools. Key metrics include data on population eligibility, program engagement, health status based on...
Pro-Change Receives a Grant to Inform the Development of a Self-Management Program for Patients with Lupus
Pro-Change was recently awarded a one-year grant by the Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) to conduct both primary and secondary research which will guide the development of an online self-management program for newly diagnosed individuals with lupus. It’s estimated that there are 16,000 new cases of lupus each year. Lupus is a devastating and life-changing autoimmune disease that currently has...
Pro-Change Selected as Research Partner for HERO Scorecard Engagement and Retention Study
Pro-Change was recently tapped by HERO to act as lead research analyst on the recently launched HERO Scorecard Engagement and Retention Study. They will work closely with a multidisciplinary team of experts, including MRA, Inc. who is acting as a consulting statistician, the Institute for Positive Organizational Health, which will conduct a literature review to inform the study, and the HERO...
Pro-Change receives SBIR Grant to Develop Pain Self-Management App for Veterans
Pro-Change was recently awarded a Phase II SBIR by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)1 to develop a mobile app to promote the adoption of self-management strategies for chronic pain. The app will provide tailored behavior change guidance based on each Veteran’s readiness to self-manage pain and his or her preference for pain self-management strategies. In...
Pro-Change Updates User Experience
Exciting changes are underway! Pro-Change recently undertook a rigorous user-centered approach to the redesign of our NCQA-certified Health Risk Intervention (HRI). The result is an updated HRI with a responsive design that embodies simplicity, minimalism, and ease of use. And we didn’t stop there. We infused the same UI design principles into the NCQA-certified LifeStyle Management Suite. With...
Pro-Change Awarded NCQA WHP Certification
Pro-Change is proud to announce that we have once again been awarded NCQA Wellness and Health Promotion (WHP) Certification for our Health Risk Intervention (a Health Risk Assessment plus Intervention) and Self-Management Tools (Exercise, Healthy Eating, Weight Management, Smoking Cessation, Stress Management, Depression Prevention, and Responsible Drinking). The Health Risk Intervention (HRI)...
Lifestyle modification is the foundation of the new hypertension guidelines—Pro-Change has the solution.
Official Release: This month, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology updated clinical guidelines for diagnosing and treating hypertension. These are the new categories for blood pressure: Elevated Blood Pressure is a reading of 120-129 systolic AND less than 80 diastolic. For adults with elevated blood pressure, healthy lifestyle changes and re-assessment in 3-6...
Pro-Change Honored to Join the True Health Initiative
Pro-Change is proud to announce our membership in the True Health Initiative. With the support of members, such as the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and American College of Preventive Medicine, the True Health Initiative envisions a world with less chronic disease and supports individuals and communities in directing their resources toward that goal. Pro-Change and the True Health...
Wayne F. Velicer, Ph.D.
Mentor, colleague, friend Wayne Velicer, an early principle of Pro-Change and one of the principal developers of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, passed away on October 15. Wayne was Co-Director of the Cancer Prevention Research Center (CPRC), Professor of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island and a world-renowned expert in health psychology and behavioral statistics. We...