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Welcome to the Solving Healthcare Podcast. In this episode we interview Al Lewis, CEO of Quizzify.  Al is a Harvard Educated, former economics professor, former Bain Capital consultant, Author, Wellness Antagonist, consumate quizmaster, turned CEO.   Quizzify aims to improve health literacy for individuals and employers.  You might be wondering why health literacy is important as an employer.  We discuss the correlation between cost, quality of life, and health literacy and as an employer what you can do to educate your employees in a fun an interactive way that creates immediate lasting change.

Show notes:

From Harvard to Quizzify, What’s your why?

Prompted to Start Quizzify & how overtreatment and his passion for quizzes lead to using a jeopardy meets

Health Literacy and how it relates to the overtreatment of the average consumer.

Effect of healthcare literacy and total cost for a literate consumer vs. cost for a health illiterate person.

Typical format for how Quizzify is delivered to employees.

  • Quizzes include information on Benefits, benefit design, and treatment options.
  • Review of information & quizzes reviewed by Harvard Medical School.
  • Trying to make sure that care is avoided when it doesn’t need to be done.

How Quizzify fits within the wellness program for an employer.

  • Difference of wellness done to you vs. wellness done for you
  • How testing and lab testing can lead to a lot of false positives and as a result could lead to increased and unnecessary treatment.
  • Advice for employers to promote wellness done for you.

What an employer should expect over a 12 month period with Quizzify

  • How to Quizzify engages and measures employee engagement
  • 12% – 70% engagement per month
  • How they demonstrate increase in health literacy over time. Improvement ranges from 2X to 3X improvement in Health literacy.
  • Illustration and comparison against other benefits offered by the employer.
  • Performance Guarantee based off overall value score
  • Employees will put information into practice immediately because of practicality of the questioning
  • What data shows to illustrate the immediacy of changes in behavior

How questions are derived and flexibility of questioning

  • Take client data and turn that into questions
  • Benefits design specific
  • Can be Industry specific
  • Reviewed & Validated by Harvard Medical School