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$750B in Healthcare Waste. Do Health Apps Drive Change? Stress versus Sleep
How the U.S. Healthcare System Wastes $750 Billion Annually The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently estimated that the country loses some $750 billion annually to medical fraud, inefficiencies, and...
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Organic Foods: There Are No Easy Answers
When Stanford University recently published a study examining the nutritional advantages of organic foods – or possible lack thereof – the media and blogosphere lit up with a firestorm of bold...
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America’s Future: Move It or Lose It
For the first time in history, children today are projected to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. Physical inactivity is linked to hundreds of billions of dollars in health care costs...
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The UnBEARable Truth: Will Shock Value Change Consumption Habits?
If you were looking to create a succesful video, there is a formula that almost always guarantees success. Create an animated film featuring cute and cuddly animals (in this case, polar bears), combine...
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Exercise Over Brain Games in Keeping Minds Sharp. Advantages of Quitting...
Exercise Trumps Brain Games in Keeping Our Minds Intact It turns out that musclehead who kicked sand in the nerd’s face was really just sending him a positive health message. Well…if you follow...
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Health Innovation Blog and Superstorm Sandy
Our purpose at the Health Innovation Blog is to spread awareness of innovations that advance personal and population health and discuss new approaches to old problems for getting and keeping people...
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Water Conservation Lessons for Healthcare
A friend of mine was telling me all about his new water bill. He lives in a township that historically assessed each household a uniform, cross-community water utility charge. The size of your house,...
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High Returns for Wellness Investment – Employers, Take Note
The bottom line. It’s what we all want to know. And the evaluation of a successful health and wellness program is no exception. Employers want to know – how much is it going to cost and how much of...
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Reduced Healthcare Trend. Energy Drinks & Illness? Dangers of Being...
Positive News for Healthcare Cost Trend Employee Benefit News highlights the National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, a survey conducted annually by Mercer, which notes that healthcare...
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The High Price of Unhealthy Behavior
One fourth of the dollars and cents employers and their employees are spending on healthcare is tied to unhealthy behavior. That’s the conclusion an exhaustive study published in the November issue of...
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