Expertise firm Solera Well being has teamed up with Aon, a world skilled companies agency, to assist employers provide 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 in a position to entry all of their advantages via 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 determine 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 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 will even be a part of Solera’s engagement, utilization and scientific knowledge with employers’ medical and pharmacy knowledge. It will 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 completely different level options. Actually, 43% of employers assume there are too many options accessible, 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 discuss to our purchasers, they are saying, ‘There are simply so many alternative choices on the market, how will we carry them collectively? How will we make them work collectively? How will we layer on analytics?’ … That being a pattern that we’re seeing out there 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 interact their workers relating to 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 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 deal with that difficulty of engagement after which ought to assist deal with a number of the calculation and validation of ROI,” he acknowledged.

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

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