Making Your Health Risk Assessments Work for 2021

Managed Health Care Connect March 25, 2021
Amy Amick, president and chief executive officer, SPH Analytics

Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) arm employers and payers with the meaty consumer health data they need to assess individual health status, prioritize engagement and to motivate behavior change. Historically, HRAs were leveraged to aggregate data, predict outcomes and costs and drive targeted engagement.

Yet no risk assessment in the world could have predicted that COVID-19 would wield such a huge impact on all patients, from the sickest to the healthiest. The coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 400,000 deaths in the United States alone, and a wide array of clinical and behavioral complications for survivors. It’s thrown a wrench into preventive care and as a result, clinical outcomes.

Within the framework of the pandemic, these risk assessments are...

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