5 Ways Employers Can Maximize the Impact of Their Digital Health Spend

The digital health boom brought innovation, but it also brought a serious ROI problem. Employers and health plans have rushed to adopt point solutions—only to find that engagement is low, results are unclear, and costs keep climbing.

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

1. Don’t Pay for Tools People Don’t Use

Digital health programs often charge per member per month (PMPM), whether or not members actually engage. That means you're shelling out for solutions that sit idle.

Hot Tip: Seek models tied to actual member activation and demonstrable outcomes.

2.  Provide a Holistic Digital Health Platform

Offering separate tools for weight loss, mental health, diabetes, etc., makes things harder and more expensive for you to manage — and more difficult for your employees to navigate and benefit from.

Hot Tip: Simplify the management of digital health solutions with a single curated platform that integrates top-performing solutions that address different health needs, all in one place, with one onboarding experience.

3.  Evidence of Impact

To ensure your spend has the desired impact, you need a vendor that can provide data on outcomes and cost savings.

Hot Tip: Demand real-world evidence of impact, including claims-based ROI reporting — not just engagement stats.

4. Adopt a Value-Based Payment Model

The PMPM model locks you into upfront payments regardless of performance, wasting budget on solutions that may flop.

Hot Tip: Shift to a value-based payment model where you only pay for verified outcomes, such as improved health metrics or reduced medical costs.

5. Don’t Build Your Own Platform

With dozens of contracts and dashboards, most employers and health plans struggle to manage digital health vendors, let alone evaluate them rigorously.

Hot Tip: Choose a single partner that takes on contracting, performance tracking, and outcome accountability — so you don’t have to.

The Bottom Line: Improve the Impact of Your Digital Health with Solera Health

The Solera HALO Platform is an integrated solution providing:  

• A curated network of over 30 providers across eight health conditions (and growing) available in a single portal. This network is easily extensible, allowing you to add on any digital health solutions that fall outside our existing network.  

• A guided experience for your employees, so they are led to the right set of services, personalized to them and their goals

• Visibility into which services are being used, as well as outcomes achieved. And that data is fed back into the HALO platform to improve recommendations for services.

• Privacy and security, meeting all the requirements of HIPAA, HITRUST r2 and SOC 2 Compliant

• Outcome-based cost model, not per user / per month.   

It’s time for digital health to deliver on its promise — not just its price tag.

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