The HERO Best Practice Scorecard is an ideal way to evaluate your employee health management program and to compare your efforts and results against other companies of your size and in your industry. This perspective can be extremely valuable to your annual strategic planning process.
HERO recommends completing the Scorecard on annual basis to keep your scores up to date and to make sure your employee health management strategy continues to evolve and improve. To help make this process easier, we’ve added two new features to our web site:
Writable survey form. Now you can enter your survey responses directly into a writeable PDF. This saves administrative time and makes it easier for your internal team to contribute to the survey form.
User's Guide. HERO and Mercer are creating a Scorecard User’s Guide. Among other things, the new guide will provide tips to help you answer Scorecard questions, definitions for more consistent use of key terminology, and guidelines on when to cite sources for answers survey responses. The Scorecard User’s Guide will be available on the HERO web site in April. Don’t forget! When you receive your new Scorecard results, remember to check them against the updated national average scores that are posted quarterly on the HERO website. You can also find your company’s percentile rank by checking the current Distribution of Total Scores chart.
The Scorecard is designed to help organizations learn about EHM best practices – and discover opportunities to improve their programs and measure progress over time. Developed in consultation with leading authorities on EHM, the Scorecard can be of practical and strategic use. Use the Scorecard as:
•An inventory of best practices
•An indicator of program success
•An aid in evaluation, design and planning to benchmark your program against other companies in your industry
This no cost comprehensive industry tool walks you through six major strategic areas of your companies program. Once you have completed the survey and submitted your results online you will receive a free report with your scores.
To further assist you with using your scores we will provide you a free copy of the 2012 Scorecard Annual Report. This report provides an analysis of the data already in the largest database of its kind. The report breaks down and provides details such as:
•Health risk assessment participation rates
•Perceived EHM outcomes: Employee health risk
•To what extent does leadership engagement affect program success?
•Use of incentives in EHM programs
Not convinced yet, of the impact of measuring your progress in EHM let me share with you one last statistic. Those who set formal EHM targets report better results!
