Self-insured employers want to cut costs without affecting the quality of coverage available to employees. HR leaders need to provide great benefits that attract talent, but they also need to slow the rising tide of healthcare costs at the same time. In this whitepaper, you’ll see three examples of how benefit teams have cut benefits spending without cutting benefit programs. • The potential savings available with telemedicine programs • The surprising ROI of fertility coverage and care • Best practices for evaluating and implementing onsite clinics

Within six months of implementing ECM in just one department, Sharp HealthCare experienced so many benefits, it wanted to expand the solution across its entire organization, integrating it with its EMR and other core applications.

Keas surveyed more than 100 Human Resource Executives across the United States via an online survey between July 31 and August 16, 2013. This survey tracked HR executive opinions on HR topics and plans and priorities for the 2014 calendar year. The survey revealed health and wellness programs are taking center stage in employee engagement and retention. With healthcare costs and obesity-related diseases on the rise and wellness incentives baked into the Affordable Care Act (ACA), this will be the first year health will play a major role in health benefits as organizations integrate preventative care programs to manage costs.

Collective Health offered a contemporary health benefits infrastructure that was able to use the data that’s surrounding us in the healthcare space and leverage it in a way that was new and exciting to us,” said Milt. Combining technology, design, and humans, Collective Health’s holistic approach brought Activision Blizzard’s benefits goals to life.

Learn how to find an administrative services partner that helps you get back to what you love about your business.

With the growing adoption of high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) and increased employee cost sharing, unlocking the value of your benefits for your employees and your business critically depends, now more than ever, on engaging your employees to make smart healthcare decisions. The good news is that innovative benefits technologies are starting to deliver on a proven recipe for success.

Tired of year after year of healthcare cost increases, Steel Dynamics decided to fight back. They partnered with Castlight Health, a cloud-based provider of healthcare management services. Castlight Health’s health benefits platform armed employees with buying information — when and how they needed it. As a result, Steel Dynamics cut healthcare spending by approximately $500,000 in their first year with Castlight Health.

Healthcare CRM allow marketers to implement precision marketing techniques to target patients most likely to need a service, align to and improve the patient journey, and engage patients to drive loyalty and retention. Every hospital and healthcare system benefits from a correctly implemented CRM solution as it helps organizations build engaged and loyal audiences. Download this guide to learn to improve your marketing engine through the use of a healthcare CRM.

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions and medical group growth have been strong industry trends for years. One reason is the desire for critical mass to gain leverage with payers as reimbursement declines and costs increase. Healthcare mergers and acquisitions may offer benefits for many medical groups; it is not without its challenges. Read this whitepaper to learn how to successfully manage growth of your medical group.

Learn why the three major barriers to healthcare technology has slowed its adoption and see how to solve these issues to maximize the benefits from your Electronic Health Records.

Learn more about HR compliance under Section 6056 of the ACA, including: • New reporting requirements for 2015 • What those requirements mean for your business • What you can do to ensure compliance • Risks of noncompliance

Enterprise customers can take advantage of the many benefits provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to achieve business agility, cost savings, and high availability by running their SAP environments on the AWS Cloud. Many Enterprise customers run SAP production workloads on AWS today; including those that run on NON-SAP DBs (Oracle, MS SQL, DB2) or on SAP DBs (SAP HANA, SAP ASE). To support the demand of high memory instances, AWS have disclosed their SAP HANA instance roadmap (8TB and 16TB in 2018) and just made 4TB x1e instances available. A few examples of how AWS helped SAP customers cut costs, improve performance and agility include BP reducing 1/3 of their SAP infrastructure cost, Zappos successfully migrating to SAP HANA on AWS in less than 48 hours and enabling a major Healthcare and Life Science company to run BW on HANA with 30% better performance vs. on premise. This guide is intended for SAP customers and partners who want to learn about the benefits and options for running SAP solutions on AWS, or who want to know how to implement and operate their SAP environment effectively on AWS.

This IDC Health Insights Perspective discusses the growing importance of CRM for healthcare payers, its expected benefits and potential challenges, and suggested best practices for harnessing CRM capabilities to drive enhanced value for both payers and end consumers.

Healthcare technologies have proven their worth for practitioners and facilities in increasing the quality of patient care while saving time and streamlining operations. In some cases, however, the benefits of these technologies are outweighed by their impact on the network, slowing network performance sometimes to the point of ineffectiveness.Software-defined networking can be the bridge to help healthcare providers update their networks and avoid disruption. SDN helps organizations save money on networking infrastructure, reduces the complexity of managing networks, enhances security through added intelligence and simplifies compliance, among other benefits.

With its clients’ needs as the cornerstone of its mission, a research and consulting firm in the healthcare industry wanted a better way to manage its business. The company had been using various spreadsheets and systems to track project and financial information, which made finding data time consuming and inefficient. As a project based business, with the majority of its projects ranging from 2-6 weeks in duration, the organization wanted an integrated solution to help optimize its overall project management approach. The firm selected Deltek and since implementation has experienced numerous benefits, including increased time savings, improved visibility into financial data and enhanced performance.

Help your team get access to the care they need from the office, the road, or the comfort of their own homes, with telemedicine.

Share this handout to help your employees get the most value out of their health plans.

When it comes to protecting yourself against breast cancer, knowledge is power. This handout stresses the importance of early detection, highlighting the warning signs to look for and steps your employees can take to keep themselves healthy.

When it comes to protecting yourself against breast cancer, knowledge is power. This toolkit covers everything from warning signs and the importance of early detection to what you can expect during a mammogram.

Telemedicine has the potential to deliver significant savings to both employees and businesses — when people actually use it. This toolkit includes posters, videos, mirror clings, and more to introduce your team to the service and encourage them to take advantage of it.

Here are a handful of healthy tips to help employees make wellness a part of their daily routine.

Regular trips to the dentist help keep employees and your business healthy. This handout provides your team with a little extra motivation to schedule that next appointment.

Ambrose Co-CEO, Greg Slamowitz provides a comprehensive explanation of challenges in the health care system and the recent health care reform legislation. The presentation focuses on the topics that matter most to small business leaders: reasons for change, mandates for individual and employer coverage, tax implications and more.

Healthcare organizations are integrating intelligent virtual assistants to enhance online experience and reduce costs. This guide overviews the capabilities and benefits of using virtual assistants to engage, optimize, and complement existing service channels.

This guide reviews market drivers which are spurring innovation in benefits self-service and enrollment as well as wellness engagement. In addition, it overviews the main capabilities of the leading virtual assistant solution, CIVA benefits advisor.