A Strategic Approach to Workplace Wellbeing: Schedule Flu Shots and Biometric Screenings

As fall approaches, so does the ideal window for workplace flu shots and biometric screenings. These key wellness initiatives not only help protect employee health, but they also provide organizations with critical insights into population health trends. Biometric screenings and flu vaccinations are much more than annual tasks to check off a wellness calendar. These initiatives are vital tools in creating a proactive, data-informed employee wellbeing strategy. If your company hasn't already started planning, now is the time to get these services scheduled with HealthSource Solutions.

Flu Shots: A Simple Step with Big Impact

While biometric screenings offer long-term planning value, onsite flu shots provide immediate benefits:

• Reduce absenteeism during flu season.
• Minimize disruptions in productivity.
• Help protect high-risk employees and their families.
• Demonstrate your organization’s commitment to employee health.

With flu season often overlapping with the busiest months of the year, early planning ensures strong participation and a well-organized rollout.

Biometric Screenings: More Than Just Numbers

Biometric screenings provide a snapshot of your workforce's current health status. When viewed in aggregate, the data can help you:

• Identify emerging risk trends like elevated blood pressure, cholesterol, or glucose.
• Recognize areas where health education or targeted interventions are needed.
• Track progress over time to see if your wellness efforts are helping slow or reverse negative trends.

30–40% of individuals who are already engaged in their health,often show elevated risk factors that may otherwise go unnoticed. Early identification allows your organization to act before those risks turn into high-cost claims or long-term health concerns.

Data-Driven Wellness Planning

When embedded into a broader wellness strategy, screening data becomes a powerful planning tool. Combined with claims data, gaps in care, or pharmacy use, it can reveal root causes of larger issues such as:

• Access barriers to primary care.
• Low medication adherence or health literacy.
• Regional or cultural health challenges.
• Financial barriers to treatment.

For example, if screenings show high blood pressure across a population, but pharmacy claims don’t reflect treatment, this could signal education gaps, affordability issues, or poor follow-through. Identifying these disconnects helps organizations take targeted, meaningful action.

Year-Over-Year Trends Offer Real Insight

One year of biometric data is helpful, but multiple years reveal the bigger picture. Are chronic risks improving, stabilizing, or getting worse? Wellness trends are influenced by the combination of your company culture, benefits, and leadership and not just a single factor.

Tracking changes over time helps your organization:

• Refine wellness initiatives.
• Adjust benefits strategies.
• Tailor communications to employee needs.
• Compare against national benchmarks or vendor book-of-business averages.

This is where HealthSource Solutions excels by providing analysis and next-step recommendations to ensure your data drives action, not just reporting.

Use Your Data. Share the Story.

Many companies under-utilize the rich insights from aggregate biometric screening data. While personal health data is protected and confidential, the summarized trends should be shared across key stakeholders — HR, benefits, safety, leadership, and your wellness committee. Transparent communication creates a culture of health, shows commitment from leadership, and motivates employees to take action in their own wellness journeys.

Plan your Flu Shot Clinics & Biometric Screenings NOW

Don't wait for fall to arrive — now is the time to schedule your biometric screenings and flu shot clinics. By doing so, you’ll set your organization up for a healthier, more engaged workforce this season and beyond. Whether you’re a returning client or new to implementing screenings and flu shot clinics, HealthSource Solutions offers:

• Flexible, onsite scheduling that works around your team’s calendar.
• HIPAA-compliant data handling with meaningful, actionable reporting.
• Guidance to help you interpret the results and integrate them into broader wellness planning.