Zywave has partnered with LifeStrive Wellness Consultants

Zywave, a technology provider of products and services for insurance brokers, announced today that it has partnered with LifeStrive Wellness Consultants, LLC, a Phoenix, AZ-based health risk assessment and disease management program.

The affiliation will permit brokers who use MyWave Elements(TM), Zywaveís new customizable client communication portal, to offer LifeStriveís comprehensivee-Learning health education modules and personal health and lifestyle assessments to their clients.

ìWith health plan costs rising at more than five times the rate of corporate profits and five times the rate of inflation, many companiesneed to promote cultures of wellness and self responsibility in order to remain financially solvent,î said Dave OíBrien, executive vice president at Zywave. ìZywave is pleased to team up with LifeStrive, whose programs tackle this issue bypromoting healthy lifestyle choices, thereby reducing preventable healthcare expenditures. This approach offers employers, benefits brokers, providers of consumer-driven high deductible insurance plans and third party administrators an unmatched return on their investment.î

LifeStriveís interactive Health Coach educational assessments enable employees to establish personal health benchmarks, identifies where specific diet and lifestyle changes could be implemented to improve health outcomes and points directly to the most evidence-based ways to do so.

Richard Perryman, managing partner of LifeStrive stated, ìWe are so pleased to be working with Zywave. They are a first-class organization with the tools and resources to make every agency they work with better informed and prepared for todayís unique market challenges.

ìOur healthcare system and the economics that drive it, is broken. A different approach and strategy to the problem can fix it, however. Together, our tools and resources deliver an unbeatable combination of solutions for todayís healthcare challenges.î