Employer Health Asset Management
A Roadmap for Improving the Health of Your Employees and Your Organization
The Employer Roadmap offers decision makers a guide to making employee health an integral part of their human capital management strategy by investing to improve its “asset” value. It is “A Roadmap for Improving the Health of Your Employees and Your Organization,” issued by the Change Agent Work Group (CAWG), a collaborative of thought leaders and influencers in the employer health arena working to accelerate improvement in the health and productivity of the American work force. The Foreword to the Roadmap is signed by Dee Edington, PhD, Director of the University of Michigan Health Management Research Center and a member of the CAWG, and Andrew Liveris, Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company, a founding member of IHPM’s Business Leadership Council. |
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This Employer Roadmap shares case studies of successful organizations’ evolution from a basic understanding of the need for a healthier work force to a fully integrated, comprehensive strategy for improving employee health and productivity.
The Roadmap has Eight Chapters and contains Appendices of case studies, citations for references, resources, websites, program elements, and a glossary of terms:
- Develop and Embrace an Organizational Vision for Health
- Secure Senior Management Commitment and Participation
- Address Workplace Policies and the Work Environment
- Employ Diagnostics, Informatics and Metrics
- Set Health Goals and Tailor Program Elements to Meet Them
- Create a Value-Based Plan Design
- Integrate Patient-Centered Medical Home and Chronic Care Management
- Portrait of a Phase 3 Organization
The driving force behind Employer Health Asset Management is the simple, yet powerful, idea that by improving the health of its work force an employer can improve its organizational performance – as healthier employees contribute more to the “bottom line.” The costs of an unhealthy work force are increasing at an unsustainable pace, demanding a new approach from employers providing health benefits to their workers. The Roadmap provides this new approach – of “investing” to improve the “asset value” of employee health and, thereby, increase worker productivity and organizational performance.
“Corporations go through cycles of buying into big new ideas to move to a higher level – knowledge management, change management, technology management. Today, the big new idea is health management. This idea needs to become like its predecessors: a vital strategic function that businesses must perform while continually assessing and improving it. That’s the only way to succeed in a competitive marketplace where the performance of human capital is a differentiator.” Sean Sullivan, President and CEO of IHPM, from the Employer Health Asset Management Roadmap
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