BSDI's gamified platform, The Motivation Alliance™, artfully weaves a fun, engaging, and social health gaming
environment with inspiring tools for activity promotion, diet management, stress management,
life planning and biometric tracking. The Alliance features a daily challenge: a health-related task that offers
participants a concrete activity that will help them advance toward their goals. Users can customize their challenge
types and difficulties so that they stay relevant. There are also hundreds of healthy recipes, complete food logging
tools and an activity log organized around the ACSM-recommended 150 minutes per week of exercise.
All of these challenges and tracking tools are wrapped in a game layer that awards points, tracks "level-ups" and awards badges
to recognize personal achievements. Threaded throughout the Alliance are deeply interactive and engaging tools for building
social support. This helps you to build a culture of health in which people are encouraged to work together with their allies
and where the most active participants can "link up" with others to help them grow.
This platform is deeply integrated with a validated Health Risk Assessment, a proven coaching platform and a broad range of
easy-to-use analytical & reporting tools so that your staff can understand and facilitate the progress of each of your participants.
BSDI also offers our Motivation Classic platform: a health promotion system that permits you to customize nearly every detail.
If you want a canvas on which to draw your own program, the Classic system is the platform for you.
Motivation is easily the most comprehensive platform for health promotion on the market. It offers
a rich, interactive interface for your participants as well as a staff-side interface
that provides a wide variety of tools for coaching, data analysis and reporting, and customization.
There are two flavors of Motivation®: The Motivation Alliance® and Motivation Classic. The Alliance
is a gamified platform with a focus on challenges, engagement and fun. Motivation Classic is a
"template" system that gives you the ability to customize a broad range of operational features. If you
want cutting edge Health Promotion, the Alliance is for you. If you want to build your own site, the
Classic is a better fit!
Participant Features
The Motivation Alliance® gives participants a Daily Challenge to keep things fresh and to keep them coming back. Each
challenge builds a skill in one of three areas: Athlete for Life (fitness), Junk Food Averse (diet), and
Self Awareness (stress and life goals). Participants can see and accept their challenges on either the web site
or the mobile app. To see the actual platform, you are welcome to create an account at
our public site.
Each of the areas above - Athlete for Life, Junk Food Averse and Self Awareness - also has a corresponding logging interface
on the Alliance site. Clients can also log and review biometric data in the Master of Change area.
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The Athlete for Life interface lets participants log their activity. They can just log total exercise quickly and easily
or dive in deeper for more detailed exercise tracking. There are charts of progress as well as analysis of activity levels
to show calories expended, days active, best performance, and more. People hoping to become or remain active will find a lot
to like in the Athlete for Life Area! This area is available on both the Web and via our Mobile app.
Our Junk Food Averse interface offers a detailed food log including analysis of caloric intake and macronutrient ratios. The food
log features the massive and validated Nutritionix online database. The Junk Food
Averse area also features a beautiful interface where participants can browse hundreds of recipes from EatingWell.com. They
can search the recipes, mark their favorites and print them out - including detailed ingredient lists to take shopping. This area
is also available on both the web and our mobile app.
Motivation's Self Awareness interface features links to a detailed analysis of the participant's Wellness Profile result (see
the "Wellness Profile HRA" link on the scrolling marquee for more information). It also has links to a variety of questionnaires
and forms covering long-term goals, day-to-day goal tracking, readiness for change, and BSDI's renowned True Age®
analysis. The Self Awareness challenges revolve around stress management, life skills, and goal setting.
Motivation also features a Master of Change area in which participants can enter and track biometric data covering a wide variety
of measures. If staff enter biometric data or you import it from an external source, participants will also see the data here.
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The Motivation Alliance® offers a deeply social experience for those that count on others to help them succeed. Participants can "Ally" with
others and earn extra points when both they and their allies complete their respective challenges. This builds in a peer pressure
effect but one that is focused on wellness. Participants can also record their journey in a shared, online journal, send messages to their coach or other
participants, and leave kudos for other players to recognize and achievement.
BSDI has almost two decades of experience building incentive programs for some of the most notable names in the field.
The Motivation Alliance® has a flexible system whereby you can identify a set of badges that the participant must earn in order to
qualify for your incentive. If there isn't a pre-configured badge already defined for a particular requirement of your program,
you can add up to 10 more using criteria of your own.
The Motivation Classic supports incentive programs as well using a simple points system. Participants can earn points using
our logs or a set of concrete activities that you define. The Classic also permits you to define a set of prizes and track prize redemptions.
There are many more features to the Alliance participant-side interface and quite a few in the Classic Motivation platform as well.
Be sure to click each of the features shown in the scrolling marquee. In particular, make sure that you learn more about our
incentive programming features!
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Staff and Administrative
Motivation's greatest strength may be the range of reports that you can produce simply by clicking a few links.
There are two kinds of data analysis: preconfigured reports and "data centers". The reports are highly
formatted and/or they capture specialty data. The data centers are the true source of Motivation's power.
They consist of free-form data grids that permit you to select which fields to show, to filter by field or
group, to define custom filters, and export results as Microsoft Word documents, Excel files, or flat-file ("csv") files.
Motivation offers a sophisticated coaching support system with a variety of tools that coaches can use to review
client status, record coaching session results and to locate clients in need of coaching. Depending on
configuration, the coaching module can provide templates to drive each coaching session (separate templates
for the first, second and subsequent sessions). Template-driven coaching doesn't limit the topics that are
covered but it does ensure that all of the basics are covered (e.g. discussion of HRA results, setting up next appointment).
The coaching templates also provide quick links to various tools and pages that are likely to be discussed. For
example, the participant-side of Motivation features a page for recording a participant's weekly goals and their
success in reaching them. The coaching templates have a link to this page so that the coach can both record the
initial set of goals and update them (or check the client's updates) over time.
Motivation also lives up to BSDI's legacy with its amazing fitness assessment module. This module lets you perform
fitness tests using any of over 50 fitness tests. Other biometric and health-related measure, like our CHD risk
analysis, body cirumference tracking and blood chemistry logs, round out Motivation to make it a complete client-wellness system.
Please be sure to hover over the features shown on the scrolling marquee. There you can learn more about features
such as our bulk email facility, our mobile app, and our Wellness Profile HRA.
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Flexibility has always been a hallmark of BSDI's brand of software. The Motivation Classic offers an extraordinary range
of customizations including the text shown on many of the pages (e.g. Weight Log, Pedometer Log, etc.), the details
of your incentive program, the articles shown in the resource center, and more.
Motivation Classic and Alliance both feature flexible Enrollment Workflow capabilities.
Enrollment is a surprisingly varied art and many web portals struggle to get it right. With Motivation, you have
many options for data collection at enrollment. We support a rich workflow so you can require (or not):
- Participant demographic data including location and categorization (e.g. employee, spouse, etc.)
- A Consent/Release Form
- The Wellness Profile HRA/HSA
- Medical Readiness for Exercise Screening (ACSM)
- PAR-Q Readiness for Exercise
- Membership Selection
- A Physician Consent Form (PCF) for high risk or all enrollees
- A "High-Risk" release form in lieu of a PCF
Enrollment can be done using only visitor-entered data or we can import data from an HR database so that your members need
only "activate" their account (and only people in the database can create accounts). We can also adapt to an HR feed for
employees while still permitting spouses and dependents to enroll under the employee's account.
The Motivation platform also has extremely flexible data querying facilities and a powerful, flexible
bulk email system that lets you target specific populations for customized email messages.
Security in Motivation
BSDI has an extensive and disciplined program for ensuring that the Motivation Web Application and the data entrusted to
BSDI by our clients are protected from unauthorized access, are shielded from attempts to intercept, corrupt or destroy
such data, and are protected against loss from hardware failure and/or natural disaster.
The first aspect of our security stance is the requirement that all interactions with the Motivation web portal take place
through a secure URL. If you have ever seen a small padlock appear when you were visiting a bank's web site, that is the
symbol that the site encrypts the communication between the site and your web browser (seeing "https" in the address line
is another). Motivation uses the same strong encryption as banks to ensure that no one can intercept the data that you are
entering or receiving from Motivation.
Next, the Motivation web technology itself is subjected to periodic security audits. A security audit is simply a sustained
attempt by security professionals to "hack" or otherwise expose inappropriate data from a web site. Motivation
has passed all such audits going back to 2007. Note too that Motivation is used by the Department of Health
and Human services and the security requirements when working with HHS are among the highest in the world. All
of BSDI's staff with access to protected health information undergo an extensive background check and have U.S. Government
security clearances.
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Availability and Scalability in Motivation
Your Motivation site will be hosted on a sophisticated "server farm" at a top-tier, SAS 70 Level II-certified data center (also certified HIPAA and PCI/DSS compliant).
BSDI's server farm features redundant web servers, a load balancer to ensure high performance, a device-based intrusion detection
system and firewall, 24x7 monitoring, redundant power and internet connectivity, and a sophisticated database cluster to
ensure extremely high availability and scalability. The actual databases are hardened and protected behind a firewall so
that they are not accessible from the web.
BSDI's server farm is periodically "load-tested" to ensure that there is plenty of excess capacity on each of the servers in
case of a burst of activity. We also utilize redundant and encrypted backups both on and off-site.
On-site backups are made four times per day and are copied off-site daily.
Finally, BSDI continually monitors page load and site uptime statistics to ensure that all sites provide fast downloads and posts.
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Innovation in Health and Wellness Software
BSDI is one of the world's leading health promotion technology companies.
Our Motivation® web portal is the technology behind programs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
the U.S. Air Force, nationally prominent health and medical organizations, and dozens of Fortune 100 health promotion
programs. We also support hundreds of small health promotion programs because Motivation is both easy to deploy and amazingly cost effective.
We believe that each person who joins your program is on a personal journey that will lead
them to enhanced health and wellness and away from sickness and impairment.
Our mission is to help you to understand and facilitate this journey.
A Strong Partner
Founded in 1991 by Mark Brittingham, PhD, BSDI has enjoyed an extraordinary journey of its own because it has always focused on practical solutions
to the most important challenges that you face in serving health promotion participants.
We invite you to join our community of users and see why BSDI has become one of the industry's leading technology companies.
