The Benefits of Digging Deeper: Using Data Mining to Improve Employee Health and Reduce Employer Costs

Abstract

One of the primary goals of any health care plan should be to help its employees improve their health. Although this may sound altruistic, especially in difficult times, healthier employees lead to lower costs, making this a situation in which both the employer and the employees (and their families) stand to gain. While there are many actions that organizations can take to help employees improve their health, one that many plan sponsors still overlook is data mining: the process of indentifying data patterns and turning them into useful information. Now, with so much attention being paid to health care reform, plan sponsors risk forgetting about such proven strategies as data mining.

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