Remember the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in South Korea?
Something happened thousands of times, maybe more, that is already having an impact on your health and wellness program.
Athletes, fans, coaches, and media staff took selfies, sent text...
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In the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL tells the last living crew member of the Discovery 1 spaceship:
“Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think...
Can you hear that? Well, you could if you had a sphygmomanometer and a stethoscope. It’s the sound of blood pressure going up.
Based on new blood pressure guidelines set up by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology,...
Health risk assessments are a lot like cookies.
Think about it.
Which would you rather have? Highly-processed chocolate chip cookies made in a manufacturing plant or homemade, fresh out of the oven ones like mom used to make. You’d pick mom’s...
Inside the Dunder Mifflin office, stress is at an all-time high. CEO Michael Scott’s unpredictable behavior, dictator-style workplace rules, and general distrust has employees on edge. It’s so bad, one employee even wears a device to measure...
Is high blood pressure a problem in your organization?
We already know the answer if your population looks anything like the typical American.
The new guidelines from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and nine...
Just 18 months ago, Quartz Media described Amazon as a “titan of e-commerce, logistics, payments, hardware, data storage, and media,” and added, “It dabbles in plenty more industries.” On January 30, 2018, we learned of yet another industry to...
Ever wonder how we’re going to improve health care? It’s not exactly the cheeriest subject to discuss when chronic illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer are among the leading causes of death. But maybe a trip to the...
Across the nation, wellness coordinators are again pondering wellness employee incentives. Only this time, AARP is behind the question: How much of an incentive can companies offer their employees to take a health risk assessment (HRA), or...
Are you trying to understand the new standards for NCQA’s Health Plan Accreditation (HPA)? Health plans have already been meeting some of the requirements of the new Population Health Management category. Others are new standards. So why the...
An estimated 45 percent of all Americans set New Year's Resolutions. According to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, the top resolutions are:
