Better health is better business.

• Position: Triad

If businesses want to save money, they have to spend money. That's the thinking at Triad Care Inc. The High Point-based health-services company, which has seven employees, sends its pharmacists and health-care specialists to job sites of its customers to screen employees for chronic health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol, which can presage serious--and expensive--crises such as heart attacks and strokes. These pre-emptive measures reduce companies' health-insurance premiums or, if self-insured, payouts for medical care.

Jeremy Patterson and Rich White, both pharmacists, started Triad Care in 2010 after realizing many people don't properly use the medicines they're prescribed. That's why Triad Care enters the workplace--eliminating the obstacle of a doctor's visit. "We find patients who might have, say, high blood pressure," says Patterson, Triad Care's CEO. "They might know it, but they feel fine and don't take their medications all the time. They might not realize the ramifications for their organs 10 or 15 years down the road. Or they may just see their doctor once a year. That just doesn't cut it."

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So Triad Care unveiled a $50,000, two-room mobile unit in January. Staffed by two pharmacists and a driver, it visits workplaces such as fast-food restaurants that don't have space for...