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Accolade as a company is built to address the health inequities that have long been present in our healthcare system. Dr Shantanu Nundy explains how Accolade aims to make healthcare work better for every individual, no matter what community they come from.

What Accolade is doing to advance health equity

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Not providing equitable whole person care — physical and mental — can be costly. Accolade has a solution. 

Mental health and DEI benefits strategy

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At Accolade, our strongly held beliefs guide everything we do. Our beliefs are integral to every decision we make, every solution we build and every relationship we forge. Read this blog by Accolade CEO Raj for an in-depth view of our belief statements

Accolade belief statements for superior healthcare

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A virtual-first approach to healthcare can help provide easy access to primary care physicians and mental health resources. 

Virtual care bridges gaps in the healthcare system

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As part of your benefits strategy, Personalized Healthcare offers a personal, data-driven and value-based approach to provide an exceptional healthcare experience.

Benefit strategies need Personalized Healthcare

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Accolade Expert MD helps people get virtual second opinions from a specialist, scheduled quickly and conducted from the comfort of home. 

Expert medical opinions with Accolade Expert MD 

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Our Personalized Healthcare approach is personal, data driven and value based to provide an exceptional healthcare experience.

What is Personalized Healthcare

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Accolade was among the healthcare industry leaders in attendance for the 2021 Annual Employee Health Care Conference in New York City hosted by The Conference Board. This blog is a round up of this event. 

Expert medical opinion benefits 

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After a spring surge, rates of telemedicine appointments are returning to normal.

What a telehealth surge means for doctors

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Adopting a collaborative healthcare model enhances healthcare administration and implements a team approach to ensure that your people and their families can easily access the care they need.

Benefits of collaborative care 

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Accolade’s highly personal approach to population health empowers each person, as well as their families and providers, to make better healthcare decisions. This results in people having better experiences, improved health outcomes and lower costs

How individual health enhances community health

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Help your HR team gain time savings, bandwidth and free up resources by implementing a healthcare advocacy solution.

Save your HR Time and Bandwidth

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Relationships are what deliver the right care at the right time. Accolade’s digitally enabled personalized engagement solutions use virtual tools to build relationships that influence the best health outcomes for our members.

Telehealth enables a foundation for better care

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As healthcare costs in the U.S. continue to increase each year, Accolade bends the healthcare cost curve by reducing unnecessary spending and improving the quality of care at the same time. 

Bending the healthcare cost curve

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The Accolade Women’s Health team is here to support members during their pregnancies – and after. 

Maternity Management Spotlight

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Being proactive about your team’s mental wellness is a great idea, but also presents some challenges for leaders. Here are four tips on how to talk openly and effectively about mental health issues with your team. 

Reaching Out on Mental Health

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Accolade helps members and payers alike save money on prescription medicine. The Frontline Care Team at Accolade has the full picture of each member’s benefits and can identify opportunities to save money while maintaining the same level of care. 

Save Money on Prescription Medicines

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Accolade closed on its acquisition of 2nd.MD, the industry-leader in providing expert medical opinions. This milestone partnership is a step towards both companies’ collective vision of helping every person live their healthiest life.

Accolade Acquires 2nd.MD 

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The research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is clear: social conditions have a huge impact on people’s health and well-being. 

The Social Determinants Of Health and COVID-19

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An independent study shows that Accolade helps customers save on healthcare spending in their first year, and achieves sustainable savings in the following years. 

Independent Aon Study Shows Cost Savings

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Americans could be in for a long, tough winter, and that stands to be even harder on people with Seasonal Affective Disorder. Here’s how your organization can support employee mental health.

Supporting Employee Mental Health During SAD Season

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In many workplaces, there’s a stigma around seeking mental healthcare. Learn how leaders and executives can model behavior by talking about their own struggles and encouraging their teams to use innovative tools and Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs).

Fight Stigma Around Mental Healthcare

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The Covid-19 pandemic transformed many aspects of American life, including healthcare. In his new book, Care After Covid, Accolade CMO Dr. Shantanu Nundy explains why U.S. healthcare needs to maintain many of the changes it made in the past year.

Dr. Shantanu Nundy on Care After Covid

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Introducing Accolade Care, a virtual solution that builds relationships with primary care providers and integrates care for mental health

Accolade Care: Virtual Primary and Mental Health Care

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Ten years into his career in the Bellevue, Washington-area restaurant scene, Ardie Sameti was thinking about the future.

Spotlight on Ardie Sameti, Solutions Manager, Product Management

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Struggling with how to field sensitive questions about employee health conditions and healthcare options this year? Have your team members Ask Accolade.

Ask Accolade About Open Enrollment

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Build a benefits strategy that will appeal to your organization’s leaders, keeps costs down and supports the wellbeing of your people.

Develop a cost saving benefits strategy

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Accolade is proud to mark World Health Day to honor all frontline care teams. We would also like to highlight some of our new tools to improve members’ access to the right healthcare for their needs. 

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Breaking Down Barriers To Achieve Humanistic Care

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In our latest video series, Donna Snow, Accolade’s VP of clinical operations, highlights four figures that show how Accolade services can improve member health and well-being while helping control healthcare spending for their employers.

Accolade Impact – By the Numbers 

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Three of the great brands in American business have announced they are creating a new independent business to attack the challenge of healthcare in our country.

A Healthcare Entrepreneur's Wish List for Amazon, JP Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway

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Open enrollment. Every year, right on schedule, it arrives. A time of reflection and decision-making. A time of questions and opportunity.

6 Ways to Tackle Open Enrollment with Influence Principles

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Overuse, or over-treatment, is a growing problem in healthcare. Fortunately, there are simple steps healthcare decision makers and patients can take to reduce overuse, improve the patient experience, and lower costs.

Five Questions to ask Your Doctor Before a Test, Treatment, or Procedure

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HR Leaders: Support Your Own Well-being

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Data and artificial intelligence will transform healthcare, promises Eric Schmidt, former executive chairman of Google.

Human insight and artificial intelligence, transforming the healthcare experience today with personalized advocacy

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Most HR professionals don't get into their chosen field because they enjoy flexing their marketing skills — but that's exactly what they find themselves doing out of necessity. 

Improving Your Benefits Communication Can Lead to Happier Employees

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For many companies, rising healthcare costs are the 800-pound gorilla that can cause a negative ripple throughout the organization.

What is the CFO's Role in Managing Healthcare Costs?

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Dr. Brian Wong on how to support employees’ mental health as they experience change brought on by COVID and the surge of the Delta variant.

Supporting mental health — Brian Wong

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Health tech company Accolade acquires PlushCare, a leader in the virtual primary care and mental health space, taking another step towards delivering the promise of value-based, personalized healthcare for employers in the United States.

Accolade completes PlushCare acquisition 

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According to a study by the independent analysts at Aon, companies that implemented Accolade saved considerably on healthcare costs for working age employees.

Lower Healthcare Costs for Working Age Employees - Aon Study

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Accolade has announced its intent to acquire PlushCare, a leading provider of virtual primary care and mental healthcare. Here’s what that means for Accolade’s ever-expanding clinical capabilities. 

How PlushCare Enables Primary Care Delivery Through Accolade

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By acquiring PlushCare, Accolade will add virtual primary care to its suite of solutions, extending its clinical capabilities and providing new ways to ensure that we connect members with the right care, right when they need it.

Why Accolade Is Acquiring PlushCare

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Accolade’s clinical strategy is built to provide customers with healthcare savings, in part by cutting healthcare waste and getting members to the right care. This has been validated by independent consulting group, Aon in their most recent study.

 Accolade’s clinical strategy saves on claims costs as validated in new Aon study

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Getting an expert medical opinion can make a big difference when a person is considering surgery, facing a new, or long-term diagnosis. Here are five conditions where getting another opinion can be beneficial.

5 Conditions That Can Benefit From an Expert Medical Opinion

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Accolade has produced a series of three videos that can help you field questions you can expect to hear—or have already gotten—from your team about the COVID vaccines currently available from Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

Your COVID Vaccine Questions Answered

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Decision science helps explain why some individuals are hesitant to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Here are three decision-making traps that people can fall into.

Decision Science and Vaccine Hesitancy 

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The pandemic has found many employees more engaged than ever with their healthcare plans and other benefits. Here’s how employers can derive value from that increased interaction.

Making the Most of Employee Engagement 

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Accolade has announced its intention to acquire 2nd.MD, a leader in the Expert Medical Opinion industry. The acquisition will strengthen Accolade’s suite of clinical services. 

Accolade is Acquiring 2nd.MD | Accolade

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Using Accolade Total Benefits, Apptio significantly increases employee engagement with their health benefits. 

Driving Healthcare Engagement with Apptio

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Accolade is making it easier than ever to find the right doctor who is best suited to each employee’s specific healthcare needs.

Find Care, Doctor Experience and Health Savings

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When your employees have questions this open enrollment season, Accolade is here to support. Here are five questions Accolade Health Assistants and nurses help answer every day.

Common Questions About Open Enrollment 

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Accolade CMO Shantanu Nundy explains why every organization needs a comprehensive COVID strategy to support their employees.

Q&A with CMO Shantanu Nundy 

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Supporting employee mental health was on the docket when Seattle HR leaders gathered for a virtual summit.

HR Leader Virtual Summit Takeaways

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Accolade was recently at HLTH — Boston, the most important health innovation conference where Accolade CEO, Rajeev Singh spoke on a panel about ‘The New Shape of Work’. This blog rounds up key highlights from that event.

HLTH 2021 Wrap Up: The New Shape of Work 

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Three benefits of integrating primary care and mental health services to get people the care they need and help you save money.

Benefits of integrating primary care and mental health services

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Our collaborative care model takes into account the whole person to provide them the access to physical and mental health care they deserve.

Whole Person Support — Access to Physical and Mental Health Care

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In a recent webinar, Accolade experts Umair Khan and Aaron Apodaca explained Accolade’s collaborative care model that integrates virtual primary care and mental health services. This blog is a roundup of important highlights from that webinar.

Integrated virtual primary care and mental health services

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A former mid-market broker, Justin Kaipus, shares his top five tips on how to grow your business, put your clients first and provide integrated healthcare solutions to support your customers. 

Tips from a former mid-market broker

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If the past 18 months have taught us anything, it’s that it’s past time to improve the employee healthcare experience. And that’s what we’re doing at Accolade. We’d like to introduce you to Personalized Healthcare.

Introducing Personalized Healthcare

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Personalized Healthcare is personal, data driven and value based — everything needed to drive better health outcomes and better business results — and it includes advocacy, navigation and care delivery. 

Personalized Healthcare — Capabilities and Solutions

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5 tips to help you think like a CFO so you can understand and respond to their concerns regarding personalized advocacy for healthcare.

Tips for CFO on Personalized Advocacy

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A study by independent analysts found that Accolade's services reduced spending for members managing three chronic illnesses by 12% when compared to a matched control group. For those with four or more chronic illnesses, spending was reduced even more.

Containing Costs for Chronically Ill Members 

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Save money and provide better care for your employees by implementing Accolade and their Frontline Care Team to help your employees get the right care at the right time.

Save money and provide better care

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As healthcare costs in the U.S. continue to increase each year, Accolade keeps the annual healthcare cost trend flat by taking an innovative approach to care. 

Keeping the Annual Healthcare Cost Trend Flat

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Mental health is a public health issue – and an economic one for employers. Accolade helps contain costs around mental health conditions for all employers. 

Save Money on Mental Health Costs

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5 ways employers can support employees’ mental health in the workplace during times of change.

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Employee healthcare so good, it feels like a signing bonus

Individual care for all

Data powered.People centered.

Better experiences.Better health outcomes.

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More cost savings

More productivity

Find the right solution

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