Healthcare Accessibility for All People

Navigating the U.S. healthcare system is a complicated task. Fortunately, mountains of data is there to support that endeavour. Unfortunately, insights found are isolated and difficult to convey. Most private health coverage in the US is employment-based.

Our biggest goal, when it comes to the Healthcare data, is to save people time.

Typically, employers pay about 85% of the insurance premium for their employees (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008). Employers are part of our healthcare access in a substantial and supportive way. Thus, empowering employers to understand how they can make business decisions to support healthcare access for their employees - is a step in the right direction.

Fhirgure believes that more than just an app for users – empowering employers in understanding their employees' unique healthcare needs is crucial

1. Healthcare Facilities Coverage: Where your employees are living, and more so - where you decided to conduct your operations - strongly influences the ease of physical access to healthcare they have.
2. Insurance Coverage: People fall through the cracks - supporting those that need coverage helps you tailor your recruitment, and potentially reach talent easier.
3. Mental Well-being: Mental health is tied to physical health - understanding the mental health state of people hints at a vulnerable workforce.

Fhirgure recognises the importance of factoring healthcare needs of your employees with access, coverage, and vulnerability in mind – and understands that your business needs are unique.

We support you, to empower your business decisions. Instead of you having to research through multiple websites, contacts or ignoring it – this simple handy guide does that for you, leveraging credible data from many sources.

1. Access: a map showing you the Geographical locations of different healthcare facilities.
2. Coverage: a map revealing the Insurance Coverage gaps among the populace.
3. Vulnerability: a map highlighting Mental Distress as an early warning sign.

The default map view is focused on Boston. Try:

• Searching for a place of interest using the top left magnifying glass button
• Clicking a region or icon on the map to dig for more information
• Click-and-dragging to other places, zooming in/out
• Using your current location with the right target button
• Viewing the legend at the bottom left

By using this guide, you can identify insights that cater for your organisation's unique profile and needs. Then you can go make more data-driven business decisions in compensation packaging, mental wellbeing programs, operations, and beyond.

Gaining an understanding of the geographical ease of healthcare facilities and services is useful in considering business decisions. For example:

• Where will your offices be?
• Where will your employees be physically working in?
• Is relocation support something to consider for more at-risk employees?

• Some benefits of greater concentration of facilities:
• Greater accessibility and choices to healthcare services for employees.
• Supporting the older and/or more at-risk employees changing medical needs.

• Some considerations of reduced concentration of facilities:
• The converse. Lowered accessibility and choices, and less support.
• Forcing employees to make a choice.
• Putting employees under more pressure in considering company fit.

The employer typically makes a substantial contribution towards the cost of coverage. Typically, employers pay about 85% of the insurance premium for their employees, and about 75% of the premium for their employees' dependents.

This forms a significant factor in the employee benefit package. And the modern workforce considers more than a raw salary figure. Employees look at health benefits and more importantly, the company's stance on supporting the wellbeing

Mental health is tied to physical health - understanding the mental health state of people hints at a vulnerable workforce.

We highlight vulnerable populations