More than $250 billion is wasted in excess administrative healthcare costs every year. Edifecs deploys solutions that are at the core of the industry’s interoperability efforts to help reduce this waste. Healthcare organizations use four billion sheets of paper annually in billing transactions and payments. If these companies adopted Edifecs’ technology, the industry could save more than 216,000 trees annually.

In 2014, Edifecs moved its headquarters and retrofitted the facility with a strong emphasis on sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Our office is outfitted with low-flow and no-touch plumbing fixtures, and a system that optimizes the HVAC system minimizing waste around the clock. We have installed Energy Star-rated appliances and electronics and removed nearly 120 unneeded fluorescent light bulbs. We also overhauled our offsite data center and removed the need to run two eight-ton HVAC units saving almost one million kilowatts of energy a year.

We rely on our employees as a daily part of the solution by making recycling and composting organic waste effortless. Through the commitment of our teams, we have been able to increase employee headcount while reducing our landfill waste by more than 75 percent per year – from 104 cubic yards to less than 25 cubic yards. Our associates recycled 416 cubic yards of plastic, cardboard, paper, tin, metal, glass, batteries, ink cartridges, and packaging last year. And we established a successful composting program which created 154 cubic yards of compost in its first year.

We offer a premier benefits package that includes an onsite Wellbeing Center, wellness fairs and free biometric testing, smoking cessation programs, and Health Savings Plans with generous employer contributions. We also have adopted an HPE model (Highly Productive Edifecs) allowing our associates to work from where they feel they can be the most productive.

Our headquarters houses a 23,000 square foot on-site Wellbeing Center that offers in-person and online fitness training, yoga classes, meditation, and nutritional counseling. The center provides daily tea service, massage, and acupuncture. Onsite we have a full-service gym, healthy organic food options, cooking classes, a fresh-squeezed orange juice machine, and communal bikes and kayaks. We also know sitting for prolonged periods of time can poorly impact overall health. That is why all our associates have Herman Miller workstations that electronically raise to standing desks.

Our personal trainer and nutritional counselor are available to help employees tailor work-out regimes and meal plans that are custom designed to suit their lifestyle and fitness levels – whether our associates are in the office or work remotely.  Massage therapists and an acupuncturist are onsite to help employees stay relaxed. Our headquarters are also home to one of the largest living walls in the Puget Sound area, with over 220 plants. We have an additional 300 plants in the offices and common areas. All this greenery isn’t just pretty, it increases oxygen levels and draws the tranquility of nature into our space.

Women are involved in healthcare decisions for both themselves and their families – aging parents, partners, and children. Yet women are significantly underrepresented in healthcare IT and healthcare leadership roles. At Edifecs, we are working to change this. We have launched AWE (the Alliance for the Women of Edifecs) and have over 100 women and men working together to tackle the barriers women face in their career growth. We also founded #WhatIRun to raise the visibility of women leaders and the great work they do. Our goal is to catalyze change so women can have a greater impact on our industry and the decisions that directly impact both them and their families.

For more information, visit WhatIRun.org