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The movement to improve patient satisfaction continues, with a new ACCO, a not so new solution for newly discharged emergency patients, and a continued investment in employees’ health and wellness. The Rhode Island-based Lifespan and UnitedHealthcare have launched an Accountable Coordinated Care Organization...
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Devices that report data are somewhat a focus on the Medical Quack and it appears now the accelerometers are going to get even “smarter’ and as usual we need to make reporting data a “game” in order to interest and average American consumer, as that’s what everything revolved around today in a big way...
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Healthcare is fair game for this and in this interview from CNN, a toothbrush is used as an example. With devices, such as the IPhone, we see some of this with going on line to compare your work out figures and other items against others on the web or with friends. This is also a legal outlet...
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Mon, Apr 5 2010
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One more company with the answers for employers how to make “you” healthy. The wellness business can be very profitable and we hope the real purpose of healthcare is for helping you and not the big pocketbooks. It can be mystifying sometimes trying to figure some of this out. Do we...
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Fri, Feb 26 2010
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We have yet one more device to enter the arena. The Gruve was developed on conjunction with Mayo Clinic . The push is for employers to incorporate the product for use in wellness programs, although you can certainly buy on yourself. I originally wrote about the product a few months...
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Wed, Nov 4 2009
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We live in the world of integrated software and employee participation is an option with a device such as an iPhone to monitor activity, along with being connected to a Wellness Coach that could send you emails and text messages, some could be a nice warning telling you that you are not moving enough...
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Mon, Sep 7 2009
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If your company participates in a wellness program you could already be familiar with the company and the benefits offered. It seems as if the insurance companies are investing in both providing mental wellness/illness services. Perhaps some of the information analyzed is helping to...
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Some of the incentives for participation include premium reductions, cash and bonuses, health-account contributions and gift cards as well as asking employees to fill out a health risk assessment and the problems lie with retention as drop out rates are high. Health-Net is turning a new program...
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Mon, Jul 27 2009
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I am doing my part here as are many other bloggers. If we don’t act now and give some competition to the health insurance industry, their power and rationing will continue to grow…and the sad thing is that most of Congress has not a clue on what real healthcare is about, they certainly didn’t have...
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Tue, Jul 21 2009
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This is a very interesting bit of software that is also free to download to use with an iPhone. It is slated as a “game’ and allows an individual to complete with other individuals using the software and creates full 24 hour report of every move you make and how many calories were burned. ...
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Sat, Jun 6 2009
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One more story about employer insurance coverage for small companies - the government’s own Small business Administration says Healthcare is the number one enemy, so why do we continue to tie insurance and healthcare to employers? Is this not an important consideration? Healthcare Is the...
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Tue, May 26 2009
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Sociometers, a new term for me, but somewhat addresses one of my concerns that I speak about on the blog. Behavior logging, does this fall into meaningful use? As I have mentioned before there are insurers who are trying to use devices to report our state of being, blood pressure, etc. in...
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Thu, May 14 2009
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After viewing the video, take a look at the post below. Are we leaving anything out with “meaningful use” and hopefully keeping the patient/doctor in control of health issues and not overlooking the developments and potential use from the “other side” which constitutes saving money only? ...
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Tue, May 12 2009
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This is what I call a very “loaded” commentary and transparent view of what we are dealing with today. With Congress looking at incentives with insurance companies and employers, could they live within these realms themselves? This is the danger zone where those, who are not full acquainted...
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Sun, May 10 2009
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If this is not risk management by insurance companies calling the shots for healthcare, I don’t know what is, and stands to completely work to disintegrate the doctor-patient relationship, not to mention the insurance company doctor relationship. It seems like every week there’s some new risk management...
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Sun, Apr 12 2009
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