Hit hard by the recession, employers of all sizes are taking a critical look at their health benefits strategy and the value they derive from it. They are looking to their health plan providers for information, technology and strategies to help reduce waste in health care spending and better engage employees in managing their health.
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- Take a more active role in waste reduction.
- Offer better strategies for engaging employees in wellness and disease management programs.
- Provide more meaningful, actionable and higher-quality data to build workforce profiles that will help employers better understand the health of their workforce, find intervention points for better outcomes and create targeted outreach and engagement campaigns.
- Deliver consistent and transparent health benefit plan reporting.
- Provide personal technology tools for employees.
- Assist in the continuity and coordination of care among patients and physicians.
- Provide education that will simplify health plans and benefits, engage workers in real behavior change and translate benefit information into actions that promote wellness.
