Engineering processes and procedures ensure that all Mayo Clinic Health
Assessment data is safe,
secure and private.

Your Employees can Rest Assured
our Online Health Assessment Programs
Offer Privacy and Security of Data

You can rest assured our online health assessment programs offer you privacy and security of data. Our application leverages the industry- standard Advanced Security components within our server. Within our architecture, both content and personalization are secure. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is used for the encrypted transfer of data for the Mayo Clinic Health Assessment. Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth also offers authentication against a data store of valid population identifiers, ensuring a higher degree of security.

Users taking the Mayo Clinic Health Assessment are informed of the privacy and confidentiality policy in clearly stated language accessible throughout the site. This language lets the users know that their organization receives only aggregate information about the user’s health risks; individuals are never identified without their explicit prior consent.

Why online versus paper health assessment?

Mayo Clinic Health Solutions offers a Web-based Health Assessment, using a combination of Web and telephonic intervention programs, with supplemental print publications (newsletters, self-care books, workbooks, etc.). The advantages are many, including:

• Ability to incorporate sophisticated branching logic to offer a more intuitive Health Assessment
• Ability to provide the individual with Health Assessment results instantly
• Ability to integrate Health Assessment results with instant links to related information, programs and resources
• Ability for the individual to complete the Health Assessment at work or at home, and stop, save, and start again at their convenience
• Ability to provide you with a wealth of aggregate data instantly
• Cost effectiveness versus paper, print, processing and postage
• Ability to better protect the participant’s privacy by eliminating the risk of paper distribution

We have worked with clients who successfully transitioned from a paper Health Assessment to our online Health Assessment with both blue and white collar populations while maintaining steady participation rates. Some of our clients with union populations that are primarily in the field have successfully incented employees to take the Health Assessment at home, at a work site kiosk provided by the employer or at a health fair booth.