Leveraging HRAs to successfully identify “at-risk” individuals, while providing timely and appropriately tailored interventions, is the first reason. A comprehensive HRA tool can be utilized best when tied to an incentive and other wellness and health promotion activities. 

Best-in-class HRA  tools will:

• Engage unhealthy and at-risk members in adopting healthier lifestyles
• Ensure that healthy members remain healthy through innovative health promotion and wellness programs
• Measure the financial impact of a healthy (vs. unhealthy) member population or workforce
• Identify the at-risk members of an employee population and stratify them according to risk for appropriate and cost-effective intervention delivery
• Integrate Health Risk Assessments with predictive modeling capabilities, disease management programs and health promotion initiatives to create a comprehensive health management strategy

The potential that HRAs hold for improving employee health and for reducing healthcare costs is tremendous: think of it as a gateway to better employee health and lower medical costs. And there’s no better way to realize that potential than by learning from best practice leaders who have already “been there and done that.”