“Mint.com” for healthcare?
You can’t boil the ocean with personalized medical data- at least not yet. Companies like Keas have tried and failed (fortunately for them, Keas is finding success with a new gamification approach)....
View ArticleWhy do small to midsized businesses want health promotion?
In a study my colleagues and I published this year in Health Promotion Practice, the results from interviews with employers indicate that employers use health promotion primarily as a strategy to...
View ArticleThe Role of Incentives
There’s a stage in the health technology life cycle when we’ve finished beta testing and set up client contracts, but still need to get employees/members to actually use the product/service....
View ArticleHealth communication and health IT
Healthy People 2020, a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan, states as one of its goals, to “Use health communication strategies and health information technology (IT) to improve...
View ArticleSmile, it’s 11-11…11!
An auspicious sign, the end of war, first moonwalk. Today’s date carries meaning for many of us. My relationship with the number 11 started on 11-11-1976, the day I took my first breath in this world....
View ArticleUsing medical claims to drive down health care costs
Some companies are using medical claims data to drive down escalating health care costs for employers. How exactly are they doing this? Oftentimes, at first, medical data warehouse vendors like MDI...
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Medication adherence vs. medication compliance
People have asked me what the difference is between adherence and compliance, so I thought I’d post a short explanation: These two terms are both used to describe the extent to which patients take...
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Cycling to Work: A Better Way to Roll?
It’s that time of the year when cyclists get their bikes tuned up for getting back into the saddle and breathing in the fresh spring air. Some even commute to work. Should companies encourage bicycle...
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Entering the Wellness Market
Has your company wanted in on the health and wellness craze ever since McKinsey called wellness the next trillion-dollar industry? Novel market solutions often come from applying useful tools and...
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Taking Action: 5 Motivational Strategies
By Guest Blogger Josh Anderson, M.S. It happens – we get mentally drained from the constant rigors that life throws at us. It’s bound to happen but what matters most is how you react to these...
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