A pragmatic approach for employers to improve measurement in workforce health and productivity.

New forces are at play that will invariably change how employers manage the health of their employee populations and how employers work with their supplier partners to provide health-related benefits and associated programs. For employers, health care reform necessitates a ‘‘stay in’’ or ‘‘get out’’ decision and may change the design of the healthrelated benefit packages provided to employees. In order to make an informed choice, employers will need to understand more fully the value of health (moving well beyond simply the cost of health care) in all its dimensions. This necessity is particularly difficult because so many employers have carved out many of their health-related programs from traditional health benefits and now are overwhelmed with divergent data and reporting from their plethora of partners.