Navigating MSK Care with Confidence: The Power of Digital Health Solutions

Enabling Better Informed Musculoskeletal (MSK) Care Decisions

Making decisions about your health is crucial for ensuring optimal outcomes, yet the process can often feel complicated and costly. It’s essential to have as much information on-hand to be proactive in your healthcare choices to ensure you receive the right care at the right time. Digital health solutions can significantly ease this process by helping individuals navigate and access care more efficiently, especially when these solutions are integrated seamlessly.

The collaboration between Hinge Health and Alight is an example of two solutions working together for better healthcare decision-making. Through seamless integration with the Alight Worklife Platform — a digital engagement platform connecting health, wealth, navigation and leave in one place — employees can access and engage with their benefits. This partnership allows for an enhanced experience, making it simpler for individuals to navigate their healthcare options.

The key to this collaboration is Program Optimization, a feature that uses integrated data powered by the platform to ensure employees are nudged to take action on preventative care and early intervention. By leveraging analytics and insights, Hinge Health and Alight are able to maximize the value of their programs, ensuring that both HR and benefit investments yield remarkable outcomes.

Furthermore, the importance of effectively navigating healthcare resources cannot be overstated. With the right tools and resources, individuals can make more informed decisions, leading to improved health outcomes.

The Growing Importance of Managing Musculoskeletal (MSK) Disorders

MSK disorders encompass a wide range of conditions that affect the muscles, bones, and joints. These conditions are highly prevalent in today's population, with significant impacts on both individuals and employers. The conditions contribute to significant healthcare costs. For example, the average cost for a spinal fusion is $160,000.¹ But more than costs, MSK conditions also impact productivity and quality of life for employees and employers alike.

Early intervention and non-invasive treatments are paramount in managing MSK disorders. By addressing these conditions promptly, individuals can avoid more costly and invasive procedures, reducing the overall burden on both personal and organizational resources.

Understanding the Importance of Member Engagement in Healthcare

Engaging members in their healthcare journey is key. Better engagement can lead to better health outcomes. Regarding chronic pain — the more movement, the more pain relief. The more weekly exercise sessions a member completes in the first month, the greater their reported initial pain reduction. If a member completed three weekly sessions, they saw an average 38% pain reduction after four weeks. If a person completed seven weekly sessions, they saw an average 47% pain reduction after four weeks.²

Engaging people in their benefits helps them make more proactive decisions for their health. And collaboration between benefits can boost this. Hinge Health engagement rates are 1.85 times higher with Alight.³ Compared to traditional physical therapy where only 59% of patients achieve a clinically significant reduction in pain with traditional PT,⁴ 78% of Alight members experienced a clinically significant reduction in pain with Hinge Health.³

Awareness and education play vital roles in enhancing healthcare outcomes. By being informed and engaged, individuals can prevent the escalation of conditions, ultimately leading to reduced healthcare costs.

How Hinge Health and Alight Enhance Healthcare Decision-Making

The collaboration between Hinge Health and Alight offers a unique, integrated healthcare experience. By sharing data to enhance the member experience, Alight navigates members to Hinge Health, and Hinge Health, in turn, shares member engagement data with Alight. Then Alight provides the aggregate information through the Programs Value Dashboard. For example, if Alight sees that a member has a PT visit or has searched the platform regarding MSK pain, the member gets recommendations to check out Hinge Health. Hinge Health then engages the member with a personalized care plan and is able to share aggregate outcomes with the client.

Alight guides individuals through the complexities of the healthcare ecosystem, ensuring timely and appropriate care through their Program Optimization solution and Alight Worklife platform. This targeted approach ensures that members receive the right benefits at the right time.

Hinge Health and Alight leverage AI powered data by various sources such as record-keeping data and market data (including claims) to guide the right member to Hinge Health when they need it the most.

Conclusion

Informed healthcare decisions, effective resource navigation, and personalized care are essential elements of a successful healthcare strategy. The collaboration between Hinge Health and Alight exemplifies how partnership can transform healthcare experiences and outcomes for individuals.

Together, Hinge Health and Alight are paving the way for a more informed and engaged healthcare journey, ensuring that every member has access to the care and support they need to thrive.