MHC Asia Group believes better health can be created

Their proprietary platform empowers corporates to take control of their organisational health and charges individuals to be their own health crusader.

Recent headlines in Singapore have been dominated by rising healthcare costs – some insurers expect medical inflation across the island to reach 10% in 2019, higher than the 8% global average, naturally sending companies scrambling to seek new ways to prioritise cost containment. However, health tech company MHC Asia Group has a different take on the issue, believing that cost containment is but a subset of an outcome.

This mindset has led to MHC pioneering the development of an Organisational Health Index (or OHI for short) over the past year, granting valuable data insights to their customers and empowering them to surgically target health pain points.

MHC Integrated Platform

The OHI is but one of many tools in MHC’s integrated platform, centred on the idea of Discovery, Ownership and Intervention. It is designed to help engage customers along every step of the way towards MHC’s goal of creating “better health”—a holistic concept of improving one’s overall wellness. This in turn enables greater savings for organisations and individuals in the long run, by targeting the root causes of illnesses and thus healthcare costs.

Eric Koh, CEO of MHC Asia Group, shared passionately, “Better Health is what we believe in, and it can be achieved. At MHC, we have created a platform that fuses ownership, appropriate treatments and iterative care pathways for every individual. We don’t believe in transactional care. Our health intelligence platform tracks and analyses data from the OHI to generate customised recommendations, enabling us to create a targeted environment that amplifies health and wellness.”

“The end objective is with Better Health, corporate healthcare costs will be contained! It’s a win for everyone,” he finished.

Journey Towards Better Health
This proprietary platform is built upon the decades of experience MHC has in the healthcare industry, with innovation and collaboration as the essentials. Along with a “quadruple win” mindset (for corporates, individuals, healthcare providers and partners), MHC has served customers ranging from SMEs to MNCs across various industries, including major insurers in Singapore.
Dr Yenna Tasia, Head of Partnerships at MHC Asia Group, said “Using the data curated from OHI, we collaborate with HRs to co-develop targeted Active Intervention Programme (AIP) to empower employees to create better health.

Elaborating from her experience, “A Straits Times report shows that 1 in 3 Singaporeans suffer from sleep apnea, but most people are unaware of what this condition is, let alone the health risks it possesses. Recently, we analysed the OHI of a company and identified individuals at a high risk of sleep apnea. It only after running these individuals through our screening program and home sleep tests, did they come to learn about this condition that had been afflicting them.”

“As a follow-up, we organised workplace education sessions on sleep apnea and its health risks, such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiac problems. With education, we aim to inspire individuals to take ownership of their current condition. Finally, working closely with HR, we launched a gamified weight management active intervention program to tackle one of the key risk factors of sleep apnea, obesity.

“It was heartening to see that once our customers realised that the gravity of their situation, they were energized to take charge of their own health and do something about it—true evidence that our Discovery, Ownership and Intervention model is effective in helping us deliver our goal of creating Better Health for all,” the Dr Yenna concluded emphatically. “It’s a great feeling to know that MHC is positively impacting lives and we look forward to more opportunities ahead to do the same.”