The modern workplace is grappling with a hidden challenge: the disproportionate impact of women’s health issues on productivity, healthcare costs, and employee engagement. The current healthcare system, largely designed around male physiology, routinely fails women, leading to significant business consequences.
Women are 20-30% more likely than men to be misdiagnosed and typically wait four years longer for the same diagnosis. This isn’t merely an inconvenience; it translates into tangible financial burdens.
For major conditions like cardiovascular disease, women are 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed after a heart attack, and 17% of premenopausal women may miss a diabetes diagnosis altogether due to male-centric diagnostic thresholds. The diagnostic gap for sex-specific conditions is even more staggering: for every one woman diagnosed, four go undiagnosed.
These systemic failures culminate in substantial productivity losses, ranging from $7,021 to $34,465 per affected employee annually. Scaled across an organisation, this can mean a colossal $70 million to $340 million in lost productivity per year for every 10,000 female employees. Beyond productivity, direct healthcare costs are equally significant, with conditions like endometriosis costing $12,118 per patient annually, and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) incurring $1,330–$2,500 per woman per year.
Introducing ORI: A New Model of Care, Designed for Women
Recognising these critical gaps, ORI emerges as a pioneering web-based chatbot that delivers personalised health navigation. It represents a new model of care, fundamentally flipping the traditional one-size-fits-all approach by starting with women’s health needs. This isn’t about excluding men, but about creating a system that finally aligns care with the realities of women’s health, capturing the unique transitions and overlaps in their health journeys, such as menopause, endometriosis, and cardiovascular risks linked to reproductive changes.
How ORI Transforms Healthcare for Your Workforce
ORI bridges the current fragmentation in healthcare by empowering female employees and enabling benefits managers to deliver tailored, impactful solutions.
Here’s how it works:
• Streamlined Benefits Access: Astonishingly, as many as 50% of employees are unaware of their specific health benefits. ORI centralises all internal and external health resources, allowing employees to easily search by symptom, condition, or life stage to redeem benefits in real-time. This significantly reduces the administrative burden on HR teams.
• Spotlighting Underlying Causes of Symptoms: Many women don’t realise their symptoms are common or linked to treatable conditions, often due to a lack of awareness and the normalisation of women’s pain. ORI guides users through structured symptom assessments, flagging potential conditions and directing them toward appropriate care options.
• Exploring Personalised Solutions for Conditions: For conditions like endometriosis and PCOS, which are primarily managed by symptomatic control, ORI provides tailored recommendations for symptom management based on individual preferences and priorities.
• Proactive Screening for Under-Diagnosed Conditions: Many easily addressable conditions go unrecognised due to lack of knowledge and time. ORI addresses this by using questionnaires to flag potential concerns (e.g., mental health and cardiometabolic issues in women with PCOS), ensuring proactive screening often missed in practice.
• Providing Safe Feedback Channels: ORI offers an intermediary platform for women to share feedback on health benefits and policies, overcoming the stigma surrounding certain health topics and empowering benefits managers to gather valuable insights to address unmet needs.
The Unrivalled Value ORI Brings to Employers
The implementation of ORI offers clear, quantifiable benefits:
• Dramatic Reduction in Productivity Loss: By improving symptom management and guiding effective interventions, ORI has the potential to conservatively reduce productivity losses by 15–25%, translating into annual savings of $960–$8,936 per employee.
• Significant Direct Cost Savings: By flagging early symptoms and preventing expenses from delayed or misdiagnoses, ORI helps mitigate the substantial direct healthcare costs associated with women’s health conditions. For instance, women with diabetes incur an additional $1,720 in annual medical costs compared to men.
• Actionable Data & Insights: Gain valuable, real-time data on condition prevalence, comorbidities, employee feedback, challenges in accessing care, and unmet needs within your workforce. This empowers informed decisions on healthcare spending and interventions.
• Enhanced Employer Branding: Position your company as an innovator in women’s health, attracting and retaining top talent with comprehensive, tailored health benefits.
Comprehensive Coverage for Diverse Needs
ORI covers a wide array of conditions, including:
• (Peri)menopause
• Urinary Incontinence
• PCOS
• Endometriosis
• PMDD/PMS
• Bacterial Vaginosis/UTI
• Vaginitis
• Vulvodynia
• Chronic Pelvic Pain
• Postpartum Depression
• Differences in Cardiovascular Care
• Differences in Diabetes Care
• Hypo/Hyperthyroidism
• Migraines
• Holistic Informational Resources for Female Cancer Survivors
• Proactive Cancer Screening Recommendations (Breast, Cervical, Colorectal)
The platform is powered by gold-standard clinical guidelines from reputable medical organisations, integrates your company’s existing benefits and policies, and connects users to best-in-class external femtech solutions where existing benefits fall short.
Seamless Integration & Flexible Investment
Rolling out ORI is designed to be effortless for your team, requiring only your benefits and policy information and communication assistance to your employees. ORI handles everything else, from integration to ongoing maintenance and updates.
Join us in this trailblazing mission to redesign healthcare with women in mind.