PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ShapeUp, the leading provider of global wellbeing solutions, has expanded its holistic offering to include products and programs from innovative, specialized partners that are fully integrated into its wellbeing platform. ShapeUp Select™ is a curated cohort of the world’s best wellness point solution providers, delivering employers and their employees an extensive menu for designing a truly comprehensive wellbeing strategy.
The ShapeUp Select™ partner ecosystem consists of products from third-party vendors that are seamlessly integrated into ShapeUp’s Wellbeing Hub, a central space for employees to receive personalized recommendations, enroll in programs, earn rewards, and connect with colleagues working towards similar health goals. ShapeUp is proud to announce four new ecosystem partners:
- Wellness Corporate Solutions delivers technology-centric biometrics screenings that help employees gain insights about their current health status. The company also offers professional on-site, telephonic, and video health coaching programs. President and CEO Fiona Gathright said, “We are delighted to partner with ShapeUp to deliver a high quality participant-centered biometric screening experience and seamlessly integrate biometric screening data in real time into their platform.”
- meQuilibrium offers a digital coaching program that helps employees build resilience and manage stress. “With meQuilibrium, employers empower their employees to build resilience and improve their ability to cope with stress – whether it comes from family, work, or money – through a self-managed digital coaching solution,” said Jan Bruce, co-founder and CEO of meQuilibrium. “The result is a resilient workforce that is more engaged, productive, and present.”
- Zipongo provides a nutrition program that makes healthy eating easy and accessible. “By providing tools that make it easy to eat well, Zipongo can help guide users to make better food choices on a daily basis," said Jason Langheier, MD, MPH, CEO and Founder of Zipongo. "Studies have repeatedly shown that positive changes in eating behavior will lead to improvements in overall health and wellbeing. ShapeUp works with customers that are actively trying to improve the lives of their employees, and we believe Zipongo will give them another way to accomplish that goal.”
- Claritas Mindsciences offers evidence-based digital programs for smoking cessation (Craving to Quit®) and healthy eating (Eat Right: NOW!®). “We are delighted to partner with ShapeUp to expand their service offering to include precision evidence-based behavioral digital therapeutics. The practice of mindfulness that has been woven into our programs, has shown very promising early results, suggesting it is more effective than the current approaches to controlling cravings and addictions,” said Paulo Machado, CEO of Claritas Mindsciences.
ShapeUp Select™ allows benefits administrators to easily add a variety of new and innovative wellbeing programs to their employee offering. Marketing and implementation are also simplified, as employees sign into a single portal and interact with all programs from a personalized recommendation page.
“Creating an effective, engaging, and holistic employee wellbeing program doesn’t have to be complicated,” said Dr. Rajiv Kumar, founder and CEO of ShapeUp. “With ShapeUp Select™ we offer employers a broad selection of the best-of-the-breed wellbeing solutions in the marketplace, and then make it easy for them to make those programs available to their employees in a simplified, integrated way.”
The company plans to rapidly expand its ShapeUp Select™ partner ecosystem. For more information about becoming an ecosystem partner or implementing the ShapeUp Select™ ecosystem for your employees, please visit http://lets.shapeup.com/select.
About ShapeUp
ShapeUp is the leading global provider of
holistic and engaging employee wellbeing solutions. Founded in 2006 by
Drs. Rajiv Kumar and Brad Weinberg, ShapeUp has pioneered a
revolutionary approach called Social Wellness™ that uses the power of
trusted social networks, behavior change science, and engaging
technology to enhance the lives of employees around the world. ShapeUp’s
platform is available in 138 countries and is used by more than 700
employers. Learn more about ShapeUp at www.shapeup.com.
About Wellness Corporate Solutions
Wellness Corporate
Solutions, LLC is an award winning national provider of biometric
screenings and coaching programs. For over 10 years, the mission of WCS
has been to educate, engage, and empower employees to make lasting
behavior changes that improve their health and their employers’ bottom
line. For more information, visit www.wellnesscorporatesolutions.com.
About meQuilibrium
meQuilibrium is a digital coaching
solution that helps users build resilience, beat stress, and adopt
healthy behavior for life. The clinically validated, HIPAA-compliant
platform delivers an individualized experience to improve outcomes for
employers, health plans, wellness providers and consumers. meQuilibrium
services two key markets: large enterprises, eager to stem the estimated
$300 billion they lose each year in employee absenteeism and lost
productivity due to stress, and payors and health plans seeking to drive
differentiation and innovation in an era of consumer-driven healthcare.
To learn more about meQuilibrium, visit www.mequilibrium.com.
About Zipongo
Zipongo is a San Francisco-based digital
health company that provides eating well made simple. We work with
employers, health plans and other wellness partners looking for easy
ways to engage their members in healthy and sustainable eating habits
that drive positive results. Zipongo’s proprietary MealRx™
personalization engine delivers individualized recommendations tied to
convenient, real-time actions that enable healthy eating at home and at
work, including healthy recipes, meal planning tools and discounts and
incentives to healthy groceries. We provide a HIPAA-secure,
easy-to-implement software-as-a-service platform that runs on web,
mobile and tablet. Learn more at www.zipongo.com.
About Claritas Mindsciences
Claritas Mindsciences™ is a
precision behavioral digital therapeutic company continuously striving
to merge mindfulness, emerging digital technology and behavioral
psychology to develop and scale solutions that will enable people to
control their cravings & addictions. Claritas Mindsciences is based on
neurofeedback technology developed by Dr. Judson Brewer when he was
leading Yale’s Therapeutic Neuroscience Clinic. Claritas combines
evidence-based mindfulness training that helps people achieve an
energized focus to help them change behavior with neurofeedback, which
confirms proper technique and accelerates progress. The first product,
Craving to Quit® was launched in 2012. It is a 21 session mindfulness
training solution for smoking cessation based on randomized controlled
clinical trials showing that it was twice as effective as gold standard
treatment at the time. Learn more at www.ClaritasMind.com.