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The Employer-Provider Interface Council (EPIC) was founded on the principle of helping to make change happen in the real-world marketplace of employee healthcare benefits. To achieve meaningful change, the purpose of select initiatives from EPIC is to focus on key business issues and/or health conditions that matter to employers and providers of care or services. That has provided a path forward to find the common ground around interests across all parties in healthcare purchasing and payment. Reviewing options within general areas of consensus, EPIC has begun various work efforts on specific themes bringing together our contacts, key opinion leaders, content experts, and real-world examples of innovations and visions of the future in employers and their investment in employer health and healthcare benefits.

WellSpent

EPIC’s WellSpent Initiative brings together employers, healthcare, and economic development professionals to discuss health and healthcare as an economic driver.

Healthy Weight

This theme was identified from multiple sources and literature documenting the value potential of successfully addressing key aspects within the broad area of obesity, particularly in the southern United States. As a result, EPIC developed and is now in the early stages of launching its first national initiative around obesity – a multifactorial and multi-condition needing sustainable health improvement innovation.

Partnering with other groups is a key manner in which EPIC strives to convene, facilitate, and manage efforts for market change. The EPIC Healthy Weight Initiative is no different and includes a key publisher, HR Professional magazine, that has a strong base of employer professionals in most southern states and appreciates the opportunity for employer value to be attained. EPIC is working with other employer, advisory, municipal, manufacturer, and provider entities now towards launching specific programs in a targeted effort to then scale and provide a sustainable solution in addressing the multiple impacts found with obesity.

HEALTHY WEIGHT

Digital Therapeutics

Since the pandemic, the use of digital health has skyrocketed, yet there are still misunderstandings of the purpose or appropriateness of the many digital solutions available. Within the spectrum of digital health (DH) lies digital therapeutics (DTx) that occupy a unique, high-end, and useful alternative care management or treatment solution that most don’t know anything about. At the same time, these DTx are just beginning to rapidly grow in larger numbers for the U.S. market after being used much longer already in the European Union, Germany in particular. This innovation represents a great opportunity for EPIC to assist, convene, and facilitate market change that can be beneficial to all concerned.

To date, we have been holding EPIC Forums with employers, developed a couple of Employer Value Assessment Tools, and conducted learning webinars toward determining our best path forward in the DH and DTx arena. We are currently seeking or talking with potential partners to more fully develop from an area of interest into an EPIC Digital Therapeutics Initiative.

Digital Health: A New-Age Spectrum of Therapeutics

1 June 2021

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Digital Therapeutics

Cancer

For several years now, EPIC has collaborated with other cancer care or delivery organizations such as the Association for Value-Based Cancer Care, several manufacturers, health plans, health systems, and the Community Oncology Alliance. Following our collaborative approach, we continue to participate with and develop efforts with other oncology or cancer care entities in determining how we can best assist in making change happen.