Protocol Driven Healthcare, Inc. (PDHI) now offers a short form of its health risk assessment (HRA), the ConXus® Profile. The shorter format facilitates completion by populations with low literacy and reduces processing costs of paper assessments. The short form does not replace the original, longer adult HRA, but joins PDHI’s suite of ConXus Profiles, which also include assessments for students, children, and Spanish-speaking adults.

Employers can deliver both long and short forms to the same population or subgroup and can switch between long and short forms from year to year. Aggregate reports support both versions when deployed within the same population and time period.

"While the short-form HRA does not comply with NCQA HIP 1 or eValu8 standards, it does provide a robust option for employers to collect health data from hard-to-reach employees," said Jennifer Jolley, president of PDHI. "The abbreviated format also satisfies a request from many of our clients to deliver a solution that saves paper-processing costs while maintaining reporting integrity."

The short-form HRA reduces the number of questions from 70 to about 40. The user report shrinks to about 5 pages, the provider report to 1 or 2 pages, and the paper questionnaire to 4 pages. The short form delivers all the functionality required to assess a participant’s current health risk, although it omits chronic and future disease risk assessments that appear in the long form.

The short-form HRA uses the same file structure as the long version, which makes ongoing version control very simple. Both long and short versions of the HRA are available in English and Spanish and can be taken online or on paper.

About Protocol Driven Healthcare, Inc
PDHI is a healthcare technology and data processing organization that provides preventive health applications and services using the ConXus® health improvement platform. ConXus solutions are scalable and flexible, driving process efficiency and project control for clients. PDHI has adopted an open-systems approach, including extensive administrative tools and interfaces that allow integration of ConXus solutions into client portal environments.