For Your Benefits

Having good data analytics is not only just about measuring the performance of your health and wellbeing solution, it can also affect program experience for both employers and their employees. Matt Doctrow, SentryHealth SVP of Analytics, discusses how using analytics can create positive outcomes, ROI, and VOI through better personalization.

There is a strong connection between a person's happiness and health. Overall wellbeing can be greatly impacted by how a person feels, as well as how they live and work. Amy Blansit, Ph. D., discusses how social, economic, and environmental factors can impact an individual's health and what effect that has in the workplace.

Within the past several years, the share of the cost of health care for people and their families has steadily increased. As a result, they now behave like traditional consumers when it comes to health care choices, goals, and expectations. In addition, the increased availability of digital tools has raised expectations about convenience, choice, and transparency in health care. Employees are look...

In the second episode in our series about the employer's role in health and wellbeing, we continue our chat with engagement strategist Jan Oldendburg. She discusses the regulatory changes that are contributing to such a changing marketplace and offers hot tips for employers on how to best help their employees manage their health care. Oldenburg also talks about which health benefits approaches wor...

Upon the onset of COVID-19, many employees were forced to work remotely. As we begin to come out of this public health emergency, it's estimated that 25-30% of all American workers will continue to work from home permanently. While remote working offers a number of benefits to both employees and employers, it can be challenging for leadership to effectively support remote workers. In this episode...

Matt Hodes, from SentryHealth program partner, OneDrop, discusses how the health care landscape transformed from in-person to virtual care overnight and how employers can take this as an opportunity to better support employees.

With health care costs continuing to rise, employers are seeking strategies to help improve workforce health as a means to better manage these increases. During this episode, we chat with Colleen Hekkanen, LCSW, CCM, VP of Healthcare Operations with MAPHealth, about the importance of taking an integrative approach to employee health. We discuss what comprises an integrative approach, how it differ...

During this episode, Richard Goldstein, MD, MHCM, SentryHealth co-founder, Chief Medical Officer for Northeast Medical Group and VP of Yale New Haven Health System, talks about the importance of having a chronic disease management program in the workplace. He discusses how these types of programs can help employers control costs and how COVID-19 has changed how we view the management of chronic co...

During this episode, Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville Board Directors Alex Alsup and Matt Schwartz share their insights into the value of a healthy workplace. They discuss how health and wellbeing programs are changing the face of worksite wellness and what employers can do to support their employees

Matt Doctrow turned a job analyzing equipment usage for the U.S. Army's special operation command into a career leading health care companies on the journey to operationalize their data. Now, as Senior Vice President of analytics for SentryHealth, he helps to solve health problems for people before they actually happen.

Jennifer Hunter, Founder & CEO at Emvitals, a SentryHealth partner, discusses why supporting employee emotional health is critical to sustaining trust and engagement throughout this pandemic.

In this segment, we chat with Amanda Evans, Chief Marketing Officer at SentryHealth about proactive employee outreach and engagement. It seems like everyone is searching for the secret sauce of how to encourage program participation and achieve meaningful action. And for good reason.  She discusses how to ensure that engagement is meaningful to the employees and...

Hear from SentryHeath’s COO, Steve Sablan, as he explains why employers should move away from “one-size-fits-all” wellbeing programs and take advantage of solutions that employ cutting-edge analytics to intelligently identify individual risks and needs. We’ll cover the importance of data in health and wellbeing as well as the key components of a hyper-personalized, data-driven exper...

Thanks for checking out For Your Benefits from SentryHealth!  Over the next few segments, we’ll talk with SentryHealth leaders about emerging trends in wellbeing management, including how new technology,  intelligent data analytics, and proactive employee outreach is redefining health and wellness. On this segment, Kevin Porter, CEO  of SentryHealth, discusses on...

ForYourBenefits . Get the latest employee health and wellness news, trends, tips, and guides from SentryHealth. Interested in the latest trends in employee health & wellness? Want to be sure that you're offering the best well-being benefits to your team? Well that's just the kinds of things we'll be discussing in our monthly podcast, For Your Benefits . Our goal is to help HR professionals, be...