This blog was updated on November 6, 2025
DTE Energy has long relied on data-driven decisions, informed by healthcare analytics, to keep employee health and wellness at the forefront of everything they do.
In 2020, most employers had to close their office doors and figure out how to manage their employees’ personal and professional needs remotely. Today, many employers are still operating in hybrid or remote models and are relying on healthcare analytics tools to keep a pulse on their population health from afar. Fortunately, organizations like DTE Energy have been managing large, diverse, and “deskless” employees for decades and have plenty of best practices to share.
Healthcare analytics can transform vast quantities of complex health data—from clinical, financial, and operational sources—into actionable insights. By leveraging advanced analytical methods, organizations – like DTE Energy – can make informed, data-driven decisions that enhance clinical and operational efficiency, while also helping to improve their employees’ wellbeing.
In fact, DTE Energy has earned national recognition for leveraging healthcare data to achieve a culture of health (CoH) and wellbeing for their employees and dependent populations. The company’s program has received over 30 awards, including the C. Everett Koop National Health Award.
DTE is a best-in-class example of keeping employee health and wellness as the top priority and for instilling a true CoH. While it’s known that healthy employees do directly impact business health, companies that embrace a CoH believe in implementing these wellbeing programs simply because it’s the right thing to do.
For DTE, infusing wellbeing into their culture has always been extremely important to senior leadership and executives have made a conscious effort to lead by example and openly prioritize their own health and wellness to inspire others. That initial buy-in and transparency from leadership sparked an organization-wide movement and has continued to grow and flourish for over five years. So, what was their secret to success? The answers were right in front of them, buried in their employee health data.
The DTE team understands that a data-driven approach is crucial to create a best-in-class CoH. They curated a robust data warehouse and worked with the Truven Health Insights team to build a custom dashboard system to synthesize that health data to obtain insights that drive action. DTE walked us through the five-year evolution and shared best practices and lessons learned. Here were the top takeaways and how DTE solved for them:
The Health and Wellbeing team at DTE Energy is proud of the progress they’ve made and will continue to rely on employer healthcare analytics to support decision-making. When reflecting on its achievements, the team credits much of their success to leadership’s influence and unwavering support, competitions and communications to drive engagement, and identifying metrics and actionable goals ahead of time to move with strategy and intention. We look forward to continuing helping organizations like DTE Energy use data to direct, determine, and drive results.
Truven knows that quality health data is key for quality insights. We have a proven process to take claims data, standardize it, enhance it, and ensure it’s accurate. That way you know you are receiving the most relevant and actionable insights from your healthcare data. Organizations can’t confidently make decisions when they have limited or untrustworthy information.
Additionally, Truven’s healthcare analytics experts design measurement strategies that help benefits teams understand which programs are working, or not. That helps you make smarter financial decisions that help you manage healthcare costs without cutting benefits.
Connect with us today to learn more about how employers can utilize data analytics to improve their health and benefits program.
