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Advisers should focus on working with employers to utilize smart benefits technology to create individualized programs that appeal to every worker.

But when it comes to sharing the medical data collected by these technologies, they are keeping their employers at arm’s length.

Expert panel at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance event say clients are now receptive to telemedicine, self-funding and other solutions they previously dismissed.

Professional Employer Organizations help SMBs focus on building their companies while still maintaining day-to-day control over managing employees.

Digital platforms place new demands on agencies, but they also create rich new opportunities.

With dozens of state and federal agencies enforcing hundreds of employment and benefits-related laws, advisers can help new employers avoid common administrative missteps.

Quizzify makes learning about medical care fun and interesting, delivering information to employees in a fun, game-show contest format.

Before going down this path, employers should understand what’s involved in moving workers to a benefits marketplace.

The usage of telemedicine is growing, with almost two thirds of organizations offering or planning to offer such a service by 2018.

Since 401(k) plans were never designed to be the sole source of retirement income for workers, it may be time to upgrade them so they serve a more similar purpose to DB plans.