Expertise firm Solera Well being has teamed up with Aon, a world skilled providers agency, to assist employers provide extra customized well being advantages and measure their return on funding, the businesses introduced Tuesday.
Phoenix, Arizona-based Solera Well being is a digital well being firm that works with payers and employers to assist match members and workers to level options. Its HALO Platform helps prospects handle all of their contracted level options in a single place, whether or not they’re a part of Solera’s community or their very own contracted options. Workers or members are additionally capable of entry all of their advantages by means of one web-based interface. Aon, in the meantime, has a software known as the Well being Danger Navigator, which has machine studying capabilities to assist establish members who’re excessive threat and in want of intervention.
Via the brand new collaboration, Solera’s Halo platform will probably be built-in with the Well being Danger Navigator, permitting employers to supply entry to digital well being options and have interaction high-risk workers. A few of Solera’s vendor companions on the Halo platform embrace WeightWatchers for weight administration, Sword Well being for musculoskeletal circumstances and Headspace for psychological well being. Aon will even be a part of Solera’s engagement, utilization and medical knowledge with employers’ medical and pharmacy knowledge. This can assist employers measure well being outcomes and their return on funding.
The collaboration goals to deal with three main ache factors for employers, in response to Kevin Fyock, North American innovation chief for well being options at Aon. The primary is vendor fatigue as many employers are juggling a number of totally different level options. In reality, 43% of employers suppose there are too many options out there, in response to a current survey from Enterprise Group on Well being. Solera’s platform permits them to handle these options in a single place.
“Once we speak to our shoppers, they are saying, ‘There are simply so many various choices on the market, how can we convey them collectively? How can we make them work collectively? How can we layer on analytics? … That being a pattern that we’re seeing available in the market might be why we gravitated in the direction of creating this collaboration within the first place,” Fyock stated in an interview.
As well as, many employers are struggling to have interaction their workers in the case of these level options, and this collaboration helps establish and direct individuals to the care they want. Lastly, many employers have an “ill-defined ROI,” which the collaboration additionally helps enhance, Fyock stated.
“What we’re significantly enthusiastic about is using Aon’s analytics to reinforce these choices that we had been already fairly enthusiastic about with Solera. [That] ought to assist handle that challenge of engagement after which ought to assist handle among the calculation and validation of ROI,” he said.
Different corporations serving to employers handle level answer fatigue embrace Quantum Well being, Accolade and Well being Pleasure.
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