Expertise firm Solera Well being has teamed up with Aon, a world skilled providers agency, to assist employers supply 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 referred to as the Well being Danger Navigator, which has machine studying capabilities to assist determine members who’re excessive danger and in want of intervention.
By the brand new collaboration, Solera’s Halo platform will likely be built-in with the Well being Danger Navigator, permitting employers to offer entry to digital well being options and interact 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 may even be part of Solera’s engagement, utilization and medical information with employers’ medical and pharmacy information. 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, based on 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 completely different level options. Actually, 43% of employers assume there are too many options accessible, based on a latest survey from Enterprise Group on Well being. Solera’s platform permits them to handle these options in a single place.
“After we speak to our shoppers, they are saying, ‘There are simply so many various choices on the market, how can we carry 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 terms of these level options, and this collaboration helps determine and direct folks to the care they want. Lastly, many employers have an “ill-defined ROI,” which the collaboration additionally helps enhance, Fyock stated.
“What we’re notably enthusiastic about is using Aon’s analytics to boost these choices that we have been already fairly enthusiastic about with Solera. [That] ought to assist handle that situation of engagement after which ought to assist handle a few of the calculation and validation of ROI,” he acknowledged.
Different corporations serving to employers handle level resolution fatigue embrace Quantum Well being, Accolade and Well being Pleasure.
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