Sharecare launches VR program to improve well-being of American workforce and bring innovation to exercise - PR Newswire

"Get Active" aviator with Lennar Corporation yields 82% engagement rate, 280% summation successful mean play workout minutes among high-risk employees

, /PRNewswire/ -- Sharecare (Nasdaq: SHCR), the integer wellness institution that helps radical negociate each their wellness successful 1 place, contiguous announced the motorboat of Get Active, a caller programme to assistance employers promote workout among their workforces successful a fun, approachable, and accessible way, utilizing the immersive powerfulness of virtual world (VR). In a aviator with its lawsuit Lennar Corporation, 1 of the nation's starring homebuilders, Sharecare's Get Active programme for Meta Quest 2 yielded beardown results for some steadfast and high-risk Associates.  

"At Lennar, we judge profoundly successful empowering our full workforce to beryllium acceptable for adaptability – and carnal enactment is halfway to fulfilling that goal," said Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt, main aesculapian serviceman of Lennar Corporation. "While I was optimistic going into this pilot, engagement crossed the committee exceeded our expectations and feedback from our highest hazard associates has been precise positive. Sharecare has demonstrated its continued committedness to innovation and driving sustained worker engagement, and we are excited to grow Get Active to much Lennar Associates this year."

In summation to the contiguous wellness benefits of carnal enactment – including improved slumber prime and reduced anxiousness and humor unit – it tin assistance trim and forestall the hazard of chronic disease. Regular workout besides has been shown to reverse pre-diabetes, which according to the CDC, much than 1 successful 3 American adults have; and, of those with prediabetes, much than 80% are unaware they person it.¹

Further, the CDC estimates that if adults successful the U.S. accrued moderate-to-vigorous carnal enactment by conscionable 10 minutes per day, astir 110,000 deaths could beryllium prevented annually.² And according to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, wellness program members who workout regularly saw little healthcare costs – astir $4,438 little implicit 4 years.³

While wellness plans and self-insured employers actively question ways to summation subordinate usage crossed their well-being offerings, astir output debased sustained engagement. Sharecare's Get Active programme is designed to prosecute employees successful carnal enactment by enabling "exercise by accident" done a convenient and gamified question acquisition utilizing the Meta Quest 2. Get Active besides removes entree barriers for those who whitethorn beryllium disabled, uncomfortable with nationalist gyms, oregon similar in-home workouts, featuring a plethora of virtual enactment options for some lasting and seated settings – from stretching and ping pong to warring zombies and basketball.

In a aviator conducted successful precocious 2022 with Lennar Corporation, Sharecare's Get Active programme generated promising results for their Associates, including those diagnosed with oregon astatine the top hazard of processing diseases specified arsenic anxiousness and depression, cancer, diabetes, and musculoskeletal disorders. Among high-risk participants, the aviator with Lennar yielded an engagement complaint of 82% and a 280% summation successful mean play workout minutes per idiosyncratic compared to pre-program. Following the occurrence of the pilot, Lennar is introducing Get Active arsenic a halfway offering for its eligible Associate colonisation successful 2023, including those astatine hazard for oregon managing a chronic disease.

"We person a beardown way grounds of investing successful innovation, including VR, to amended our broad well-being level and the worker experience, and the archetypal feedback connected Get Active from Lennar's Associates is some encouraging and inspiring," said William Janis, elder vice president of wellness advocacy astatine Sharecare. "We are excited to differentiate our full wellness benefits offering connected behalf of our partners and their populations with a unsocial and approachable programme that's amusive and people engaging for employees of all fittingness levels portion improving outcomes and reducing costs."

Beginning this month, Get Active is disposable for Sharecare's leader customers to integrate into their workplace well-being and wellness benefits level configurations.^4,5 For lawsuit partners funny successful deploying Get Active for their workforce, Sharecare works alongside them to stratify the eligible colonisation for the program. For clients enrolled successful Sharecare+, the integer wellness company's full health, payor agnostic advocacy solution, household advocates besides volition enactment to enroll eligible members successful the program.

After eligible members enroll successful Sharecare's Get Active program, they volition person a Meta Quest 2 VR headset arsenic good arsenic an workout usher featuring recommended movement-related VR apps to promote exercise.^6,7 Participants tin usage Meta Quest Move to number their enactment minutes generated via the headset; and, with their consent, synchronize minutes worked retired successful VR to the Sharecare app, wherever the participant's enactment information is utilized for their idiosyncratic play and monthly question goals and employer-sponsored rewards programs.^8,9 

To larn much astir Sharecare's digital-first ecosystem, including the broad marketplace of integer therapeutics and well-being programs – similar Get Active – disposable to its employer, wellness plan, and authorities customers, delight email [email protected].  

About Lennar Corporation

Lennar Corporation, founded successful 1954, is 1 of the nation's starring builders of prime homes for each generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and progressive big homes chiefly nether the Lennar marque name. Lennar's Financial Services conception provides owe financing, rubric and closing services chiefly for buyers of Lennar's homes and, done LMF Commercial, originates owe loans secured chiefly by commercialized existent property properties passim the United States. Lennar's Multifamily conception is simply a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LEN^X drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategical investments. For much accusation astir Lennar, delight sojourn www.lennar.com.

About Sharecare

Sharecare is the starring integer wellness institution that helps radical – nary substance wherever they are successful their wellness travel – unify and negociate each their wellness successful 1 place. Our broad and data-driven virtual wellness level is designed to assistance people, providers, employers, wellness plans, authorities organizations, and communities optimize idiosyncratic and population-wide well-being by driving affirmative behaviour change. Driven by our doctrine that we are each unneurotic better, astatine Sharecare, we are committed to supporting each idiosyncratic done the lens of their idiosyncratic wellness and making high-quality attraction much accessible and affordable for everyone. To larn more, sojourn www.sharecare.com.

Media Relations:

Jen Martin Hall 
EVP of Communications, Sharecare 
[email protected] 

Danielle Tocco 
VP of Communications, Lennar Corporation 
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[1] https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/prediabetes.html

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/basics/pa-health/index.htm

[3] https://www.bcbs.com/sites/default/files/file-attachments/health-of-america-report/HOA-Benefits_of_Regular_Exercise.pdf

[4] Get Active is included arsenic portion of Sharecare+. Customers not enrolled successful Sharecare+ whitethorn get entree to Get Active arsenic a bargain up.

[5] Data from Sharecare's Get Active programme volition not impact members' wellness premiums oregon interaction their wellness security claims successful immoderate way.

[6] Sharecare volition tally the Get Active programme connected behalf of funny leader lawsuit partners, and members who are eligible volition beryllium capable to take whether to enactment successful it. The Meta Quest 2 is not a aesculapian instrumentality and is not designed to diagnose, dainty oregon cure aesculapian conditions and makes nary representations regarding immoderate steadfast outcomes, results oregon benefits.  All health-related statements are made solely by Sharecare, an autarkic institution helping radical negociate their well-being.

[7] Program participants besides volition beryllium capable to acquisition third-party apps successful the Meta Store.

[8] Sharecare volition not stock programme participants' protected wellness accusation with Meta.

[9] Sharecare volition not merchantability programme participants' idiosyncratic accusation to Meta.

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