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Here's a small email interchange about a great article a friend of mine sent me. Randy is an expert in the nuances of health insurance and has spent his entire career in the space. And he is an articulate observer of the elements that make health insurance and healthcare tick, I always look forward to a lively dialog with him. Here's just a small example....
Experts agree that part of the solution to reducing employee healthcare claims costs and improving general population health is to help employees become better healthcare consumers. Telemedicine benefits are a part of the formula....
Yesterday I read an interesting article written by Kathryn Mayer for ebn.benefitnews.com about the incredible growth in healthcare costs according to a study by employee health benefits consulting firm Aon-Hewitt. While the article focused on the overall growth in spending globally, it also indicated that the growth is huge in the United States.
meet the HealthETeams Challenge.
Many New Years resolutions involve making some sort of healthy change to someone's lifestyle-lose weight, take up a new fitness program, make amends with some emotionally disturbing situation, gain control of emotional stressors and so on....
I saw an interesting article on MSN.com which highlighted top fifty simple healthy lifestyle changes. I took the liberty to pick the ten best ones to make my 2015 "Top 10 Healthy Tips List"...
A recent article in the Sunday, December 20th Career Connection section of The Virginian-Pilot shares a clue for building employee engagement and participation in projects such as HealtheTeams Challenge.....
In the quest to find new and affordable ways to enhance tired and increasingly expensive employee benefits programs, employers are now seeing community involvement as a way to build engagement with employees.....
Employers and their leadership teams and HR staff are seeing opportunities to add more engaging elements to their workplace wellness programs so that begin to look like projects that can help build improved work culture and momentum toward "organizational health"....
Fighting obesity is complicated stuff, but it is clear that proper eating and plenty of exercise combined with the right kind of support, coaching and incentives can produce big dividends. How do we do this "at scale"....?