IHP for Medical Fitness

Exercise and health are more closely tied than ever before. Using an evidenced-based model of health and fitness programming, the Interactive Health Partner (IHP) consolidates health and fitness management into one easy to use, flexible system that allows you to stay connected with your patients or members at all times. Whether you're a Medical Fitness Center, Cardiac Rehabilitation Director, Physical Therapist or Physician use the IHP to automate your exercise prescriptions, maintain all information in one database accessible to staff and members, and track your outcomes to measure success or achieve certification.

Automate Exercise Prescriptions

Use IHP to automate your exercise prescription process to guide your members or patients in exercising regularly and properly, based on your professional recommendations.

• Implement a consistent and accurate process for prescribing exercise.
• Create 4-16 week workout calendars customized for each member or patient, based on their own health and personal profile of exercise preferences.
• Access proven, medically-based assessments and programming developed by health and fitness experts, and include evidenced-based exercise programs in your exercise prescriptions.

The exercise prescription process is extremely flexible so you can tailor exactly what each person needs. Include an exercise program developed by fitness experts such as 'Strength Training for Fat Loss' or one that your center or facility created such as 'Cardiac Rehab Gradual Full Body Strength'. Include individual exercises that are visually demonstrated in the IHP with short video clips and exercise photos along with detailed exercise descriptions.

Access Data

The IHP maintains all information in one place, and provides anytime anywhere access to all staff as well as members or patients. For your staff, maintaining all information in one central online database can assist in standardizing internal processes and streamlining the use of reliable outcomes reports. The result is increased consistency and improved operational efficiency in your center or facility, thus saving you time.

For your members or patients, online accessibility provides seamless connectivity and a significantly greater value. With the IHP you can track what your members or patients are doing at home, outdoors, or at your facility. With the flexibility of the IHP, your members or patients may enter and view their own health and fitness data or you can do it for them. If your members or patients log and track their own exercise and health metrics in their IHP account and you provide expert guidance along the way, you can enhance your relationship with them, keep them engaged in their health and fitness, and provide information that will allow them to share their progress with family and physicians.

Online accessibility is also valuable in extending your services beyond your facility, to keep cardiac rehab or physical therapy patients exercising beyond a typical 12 week program at your facility. The IHP allows you to offer a home based program to your members or patients, track their outcomes, view reports and analyze their performance, and even charge a fee for your continued service creating a new revenue stream.

Measure Success

The IHP consolidates a wealth of information in one place, giving your numerous clickable reports to review your performance, track your outcomes, and achieve certification from the Medical Fitness Association (MFA). Are your members or patients staying engaged in their fitness program? Are you making a difference in your members' health? Is your performance worthy of additional budget monies? The IHP can help you answer these questions quickly and easily, eliminating the need to sort through paperwork and compile data.

Outcomes can be measured by more than just the number of days people come in to your facility to exercise. IHP gives you a 360 degree view, providing details of how much exercise, what types of exercise and what health benefits have been achieved because of it. Use IHP to answer questions such as:

• Are your members or patients exercising the minimum number of minutes per week as recommended by the American Heart Association?
• Have your members or patients improved their blood pressure? Body fat percentage?
• What is the average BMI of our members today, and what was it a year ago?

Outcomes reported by the IHP can also simplify achieving MFA certification. Being certified by the MFA will enhance your reputation as a quality facility meeting high standards. The IHP has been specifically designed to simplify measuring and reporting your members' health and fitness outcomes, required for MFA certification.

IHP in Use

The IHP can be used in different ways, depending on your needs. Some clients start by using a select feature of the IHP, while others choose to use a more comprehensive set of tools available in the IHP. Physicians can use the IHP to support the Exercise is Medicine initiative, to prescribe exercise and monitor the progress of their patients.

The Summit Medical Fitness Center uses the IHP to assess its members' health, and record and track their health metrics. "The IHP has proven to be an ideal tool for us," says Gordon Opel, MS, The Summit Medical Fitness Center. "With close to 7,000 members we needed a web based data tracking system that was comprehensive, easy to use and affordable. Thank you IHP!"

In addition, The Summit Medical Fitness Center is supporting the employee wellness program of the US Forest Service, by using the IHP in conjunction with their professional expertise and guidance and as the monitoring tool for the wellness coaching for all of the USFS Region 5 employees.

Power Wellness has chosen to use IHP numerous features of the IHP, including health assessments, exercise prescriptions, tracking physical activity and health metrics, and measuring outcomes.

Whatever your needs, the IHP can simplify your operations and make your operations more efficient.