The Dynamics of Digital Health

Do Digital Health Programs Reduce Employer Health Care Costs?

The Hidden Cost of Calendar-Driven Benefits Strategy

As healthcare spend becomes a top operating expense, benefits strategies must evolve from projected ROI to measurable financial impact that withstands

A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health Tracking Poll confirms what employers and health plans have been feeling for years.

When I joined Solera Health as CISO and General Counsel, I knew AI governance needed to be a priority from day one.

High-cost claims are accelerating, becoming more unpredictable, and traditional cost-containment strategies aren't keeping pace.

How CHROs Can Turn Federal Nutrition Policy Into Employee Wellbeing and Cost Savings

If digital health is supposed to lower costs, why hasn't it consistently improved MLR? The issue isn't that digital health doesn't work.

It is quietly shaping which members your benefit reaches, which conditions it covers, and whether it functions as a whole-person health tool.

Treating them as equivalent is producing a behavioral health strategy that serves a fraction of the members who need it.

Members with a chronic condition and an untreated behavioral health comorbidity do not cost twice as much as members with the chronic condition alone.

The $9,600 average annual cost of managing a diagnosed T2D member is a floor, not a ceiling.

Elevated A1C is a claims exposure that compounds every year it goes unmanaged.

Adults with type 2 diabetes are two to three times more likely to experience depression than the general population.

96 million Americans living with prediabetes, largely falls outside the benefit design entirely.

Ninety-six million Americans are living with prediabetes. Eighty percent of them do not know it.

Men in your workforce are sicker than you think — and less likely to do anything about it.

Depression and obesity are not separate problems

How to think about population segmentation and program matching across the three major intervention tiers.

Five percent - the number that should anchor every conversation about weight management ROI in a health plan or self-insured employer setting.

This question will determine whether your GLP-1 investment produces durable value or a recurring cost problem.

What makes cancer uniquely expensive from a benefits management perspective is not just the treatment cost.

Digital tobacco cessation are a core benefits investment, and most employers are leaving it entirely on the table.

Each digital health solution was added in response to a trend report or a renewal conversation, rarely in conversation with the others.

There are two fundamental MSK cost problems, and most benefits strategies are not designed to address either one.

It is the most common complication of childbirth, and for most benefits leaders, it is invisible on the claims ledger until it is not.

Obesity-related medical costs now exceed $173 billion annually in the United States.

A shift is happening in digital health purchasing, and the biggest change isn’t the one everyone’s talking about.

Here’s why your digital health strategy may not be delivering — and how to change that.

Despite significant investment, employers and health plans are still asking the same question: Do these solutions actually move the needle?

Digital health doesn’t have a product problem. It has a distribution crisis.

If you aren’t built into the benefit, you aren’t built to last.

As digital health programs grow, the cybersecurity burden grows with them.

The recent Wall Street Journal article, Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years, paints a challenging picture for employers.

In healthcare, cybersecurity is no longer a niche IT concern—it is a matter of patient safety.

For every digital health contract awarded, dozens of solutions are turned away.

Over the past decade, a surge of point solutions has promised to solve specific health challenges – but they're masking hidden costs.

In a system where costs are climbing and outcomes remain stubbornly uneven, prediction is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s a financial imperative.

On July 4, 2025, HR 1 was signed into law – introducing sweeping, long-term reforms across several areas of healthcare delivery.

Align Incentives and Maximize Value for Digital Health ROI

Choosing a digital health partner is like finding the right recipe for a perfect meal.

As healthcare implement these technologies, an important question looms: who’s making sure AI is safe, ethical and equitable?

The current state of digital health can feel like juggling five remote controls just to change the channel.

The digital health landscape is a minefield of vague performance metrics, sky-high costs, and ambiguous results.

In healthcare, virtual care is proving to be an essential tool for improving patient engagement, reducing costs, and enhancing care outcomes.

In a time where healthcare data breaches make headlines weekly, one question keeps health executives awake at night: Is our patients' data truly safe?

In this blog, we will explore the two pillars of virtual care strategy: wellness versus virtual care and digital health.

Acuity-based matching helps patients with chronic conditions receive customized, cost-efficient digital services supporting value-based care.

Learn the 5 ways virtual specialty clinics drive down chronic disease care costs and view validated results from 3 providers.

Find out how virtual specialty clinics are delivering value-based care.

Many employers have turned to Point Solution Vendors (PSVs). However, the unintended consequence has been a dramatic increase in administrative cost.

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Even after decades of effort in preventing and stopping tobacco use, smoking is still our countrys longest running and deadliest epidemic...