Solera Well being, Aon Be a part of Forces to Simplify Worker Healthcare

Know-how firm Solera Well being has teamed up with Aon, a world skilled providers agency, to assist employers supply extra personalised 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 clients 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. Staff or members are additionally capable of entry all of their advantages via one web-based interface. Aon, in the meantime, has a instrument 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 can 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 embody WeightWatchers for weight administration, Sword Well being for musculoskeletal circumstances and Headspace for psychological well being. Aon may even be a part of Solera’s engagement, utilization and scientific knowledge with employers’ medical and pharmacy knowledge. This may assist employers measure well being outcomes and their return on funding.

The collaboration goals to handle 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 totally different level options. In actual fact, 43% of employers assume there are too many options out there, based on a current survey from Enterprise Group on Well being. Solera’s platform permits them to handle these options in a single place. 

“After we discuss to our purchasers, they are saying, ‘There are simply so many alternative 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 development that we’re seeing out there might be why we gravitated in the direction of creating this collaboration within the first place,” Fyock mentioned 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 establish and direct folks to the care they want. Lastly, many employers have an “ill-defined ROI,” which the collaboration additionally helps enhance, Fyock mentioned.

“What we’re notably enthusiastic about is using Aon’s analytics to reinforce these choices that we have been already fairly enthusiastic about with Solera. [That] ought to assist handle that subject of engagement after which ought to assist handle a few of the calculation and validation of ROI,” he acknowledged.

Different firms serving to employers handle level answer fatigue embody Quantum Well being, Accolade and Well being Pleasure.

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