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2023/3/24
Launching Health & Productivity Management Alliance Working to Spread the Concept of “Health & Productivity Management” and Achieve Fiscal Soundness of Health Insurance Societies
Ajinomoto Co., Inc. , SCSK Corporation , OMRON Corporation , Kirin Holdings Company, Limited, Shimadzu Corporation, JMDC Inc., Nippon Life Insurance Company, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation announced today the establishment of the Health & Productivity Management Alliance (hereinafter, the “Alliance”) in June 2023.
With it now possible for people to choose to work longer with the advent of the “era of the 100-year lifespan” in Japan, the industrial community is faced with the challenges of helping their employees promote health, achieving fiscal reform for their health insurance societies, and contributing to the government’s campaign to curb health expenditure. Against this background, promoting “health and productivity management (H&PM)” has become one of the key agenda items for management in practicing “human capital management,” an approach of perceiving employees as company assets, along with corporate productivity enhancement and streamlining of health expenditure. Promoting H&PM can also increase the competitiveness of the Japanese industry as a whole in the global arena. In an effort to address these social issues, eight Japanese companies from different sectors have rallied around the goal of realizing a well-being society and agreed to form the Alliance.
The objective of the Alliance is to “design a model for H&PM, co-create solutions to make it work, and implement them in the industrial world.” As a way to achieve the objective, the wisdom of the companies practicing H&PM and those offering solutions will be consolidated. In more concrete terms, the Alliance will make the most of healthcare data to deal with the risks of employees contracting diseases whose aggravation can be predicted, such as cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases derived from lifestyle illness and mental health and kidney disorders. Member companies of the Alliance will also take the initiative in utilizing healthcare data to maintain and advance their employees’ well-being and provide feedback, while at the same time installing their products and services for H&PM and endeavoring to develop and demonstrate those within the Alliance. Successful cases will be implemented as a model outside the Alliance as well, with the ultimate goal of implementing such products and services in Japan and overseas in cooperation with universities, research institutions, and government agencies.
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