Healthconnect
A targeted, yet collaborative approach to managing and reducing absence and health issues.
Sickness absence can seriously affect an organisation’s productivity and
the bottom-line, yet most employers struggle to tackle the problem successfully.
With health-related costs running to as much as 15 -20% of payroll costs, unless
action is taken many employers maybe forced to cut back on their health benefits
and services. Managing absence well is fundamental in gaining control over
costs.
Having an absence policy in place does not equate to managing absence. The challenge most organisations have is figuring out how to move beyond high level policy and into real life, everyday management practice.
Mercer experience shows that:
- Absence is a significant cost (3% - 4% of total salary – this does not include indirect costs which can double to triple this amount depending on client or insurance provision)
- Front line managers and HR must be involved in the decision making process to improve overall absence
- Companies need quality, consistent data for which they can track and review progress and service provision
- To be successful, clients need an infrastructure which makes managing absence easy, consistent and connected
Healthconnect has been instrumental in helping clients reduce both short and longer term absence costs as well as monitor and fully leverage their case management investment.
How Mercer can help
Proven experience reducing absence, minimising health risks, and leveraging existing provider relationships.
Mercer has a market leading (and provider independent) absence and health management solution, with real client experience and a track record of improving absence performance and reducing health risks.
Healthconnect enables organisations to better manage their workforce health problems by ensuring the right people have the right information at the right time and enables employers to identify problems and introduce interventions at critical times.
By providing access to real-time data and analysis, Healthconnect has been instrumental in helping clients reduce absence and costs, better leverage their suppliers, and gives clients the tools to measure and monitor KPIs and ROI for their health initiatives.
Why Mercer
Makes managing absence easier, consistent and transparent.
Healthconnect provides the infrastructure and joins up processes for companies to really manage absence and health issues proactively. By turning company absence policy into everyday practice, Healthconnect ensures the timely engagement and collaboration of the client’s health supply chain, from employees to managers, human resources, health & safety, case management (in-house or remote 3rd party) as well as payroll, and allows for defined actions to be triggered by specific events or symptoms based on the client’s absence protocols or agreed healthcare pathways.
Healthconnect is a secure, permission based, web application accessible via the Internet for the recording, monitoring and management of employee absence, holiday entitlement and health issues. It is accessible to client’s employees, managers, HR, H&S, in-house or 3rd party call centres and/or occupational health, as well as payroll.
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