A recent Watson Wyatt study shows that companies increasingly are using benefits enrollment systems as a way to encourage healthier employee habits.

In a December 2007 survey of 117 U.S. companies, the global consulting firm found that 53 percent now include health risk assessments as part of their enrollment systems or plan to incorporate them by 2009. The study also found that 36 percent use enrollment systems as a way to encourage employees to sign up for disease management programs, or will do so by 2009.

Despite these efforts, however, most companies do not yet integrate their enrollment systems with other benefits-related resources, such as linking them to a health plan provider or health savings account/flexible spending account administrator.

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