Supporting employee health & wellbeing can be more difficult than it sounds…
- Utilization rates can be very low. The HR budget allocates a large proportion to health & wellness components such as an EAP or vitual health consultation services. However, staff often don’t the benefits enough to justify the large expense. On the other hand, if you get rid of the wellness programs, you’ll have staff running off to any one of the competitors’ vacancies down the virtual road.
- It’s hard to get the message through. You’ve run general wellness promotions and communications campaigns. Such promotions are usually one-way communication feauturing online Town Hall meetings, promotional posters on the walls, talking points for team meetings, and similar. Unfortunately, it’s all one-way and the message rarely really sinks in, especially since covid ushered in a much more dispersed, hybrid workforce.
- Employers try launching such as ‘walking challenges” and other activities but they tend to only skim the surface and don’t have much lasting effect.
- Some people don’t stick to their treatment plans which affect workforce attendance, staffing plans, and claims rates. It’s hard to get through to some of these people to take more preventive action.
I recently discovered a very cool solution to these problems . . .
It was a pleasure to be joined on the A Better HR Business show by Tom Chamberlain, Founder & CEO of EdLogics, a gamified employee health literacy platform.
About Tom Chamberlain
Tom is the Founder and CEO of EdLogics, a digital health communications company dedicated to transforming the way people learn about health.
Tom has more than thirty years of experience designing innovative educational programs and population health initiatives for the healthcare industry.
Leveraging his experience building innovative healthcare organizations from startup to maturity, Tom brings a wealth of knowledge and insight to the development of highly effective consumer engagement solutions designed to change consumer behavior and improve healthcare outcomes.
About EdLogics
EdLogics improves the lives of people by engaging and motivating them to learn about important health issues and become better healthcare decision-makers. Through interactive health games, multimedia educational programs, innovative gamification strategies, and rewards for educational achievement, The EdLogics Platform™ makes learning fun and engaging, improves health literacy, measures learning comprehension, and transforms the way consumers learn about health.
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In a wide-ranging discussion, Thomas and I talked about:
- How to boost employee engagement for health benefits.
- How EdLogics makes health education fun, engaging, and rewarding.
- Boosting engagement and utilization rates of healthcare and wellness programs with EdLogics.
- The ease of implementation for clients using the platform.
- EdLogics provides personalized content based on age, gender, and subject matter interests.
- How data can be gathered in a compliant and secured environment.
- And more.
Ok, over to Tom (thanks Tom) . . .
Tom Chamberlain, PharmD., Founder and CEO of EdLogics
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