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Employee wellness matters. Even though your employees may be showing up for work and your company isn’t spending a lot of money in sick days, you still want your employees to have a high level of wellness. This will ensure they are healthy and remain healthy. You will be able to impact their wellness more effectively when you track a variety of variables regarding their health. Such things as the average age of your employees, their geography, and the gender ratio will determine employee wellness. In addition to these, you want to pay attention to risk factors, your occupational health and safety standards, and much more. All of these variables will impact employee wellness - and you will need to pay attention to these variables effectively. The question is, how will you be able to impact employee wellness? Learning about details is critical. You cannot offer different programs and services for your employees until you know what their needs are. You have to take the time to learn about the current state of your employee wellness in order to make an impact. If you don’t have the right data available to you, it will be impossible to find out what your employees need in order to maintain and even improve their overall wellness. Technology is better than ever. It’s hard to turn on the TV, open a magazine, or do anything else without being bombarded by the amount of technology that is available in today’s market. This works to your advantage because you can learn more about employee wellness by using the technology out there. Benefit optimization systems will allow you to tap into all of the raw data available from your health care program. Once you have tapped into all of the raw data, you can clean up the data and be able to facilitate wellness programs in order to impact employee wellness. Through the benefit optimization system, you can have a visual dashboard to track such things as cost and return on investment. This will allow you to control costs while improving employee wellness simultaneously. You have to have data in order to see whether you are making improvements or not. Otherwise you may be throwing money at programs that are simply not effective. You want a high level of employee participation and you want to see risk factors being affected by the programs you have in place. By using technology to manage the data, you can make sure this is happening - and prove it by running reports to show any senior management that may be doubting your efforts, which is always important. Employee wellness has to be a top priority for your company because it’s ultimately going to control how much you spend in healthcare costs as well as whether your employees feel they are gaining the benefits from your company that they expected to get when they were first hired on. If you have data available to you that is easy to manage and query, you can get the results you need. Dynamic Health Strategies (DHS) is a benefit value-optimization and management company that offers specialized employee healthcare benefit cost-management advice, tools and consulting services for Self-insured Employers and their Benefit Consultants. DHS has saved its customers millions of dollars by pinpointing waste, fraudulent billing, and improving employee wellness.
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